Weekly Chat Show on Twitch
React Wednesdays is a weekly chat show with the best and brightest from the React world, hosted by KendoReact Developer Advocate TJ VanToll. New episodes stream live every Wednesday at 1:00 PM Eastern US time. You can add React Wednesdays to your Google calendar to get reminders for upcoming episodes.
On this episode of React Wednesdays, we are welcoming the awesome folks from Team Sapling - a VSCode extension to help Engineers traverse their React Applications.
Sapling creates an interactive component dependency tree embedded within the VS Code sidebar, and it would be really interesting to see it in action!
Join us to learn more & don't forget to bring questions!
Wednesday, December 8
On this episode of React Wednesdays, we welcomed Matt Perry, creator of Motion One - the smallest fully-featured animation library for the web, and the easiest way to use the Web Animations API.
Matt demoed Motion One for us and showed us how it all works! Check it out for yourself: https://motion.dev/ & pay a visit to Matt's GitHub page.
November 29, 2021
On this episode of React Wednesdays, we welcomed Adam Bradley, creator of Partytown - a fun location for your third-party scripts to hang out.
Adam has a pretty awesome background too - he helped create Ionic Framework, built Stencil.js, and right now he's a Director of Technology at Builder.io.
His current project, Partytown is a lazy-loaded 6kb library that helps relocate resource-intensive scripts into a web worker and off of the main thread. Its goal is to help speed up sites by dedicating the main thread to your code and offloading third-party scripts to a web worker.
Adam demoed Partytown live and was awesome enough to answer all the questions TJ had! Check out Partytown's repo.
November 17, 2021
On this episode of React Wednesdays, Zain Sajjad came back to show you how to build and ship your React Native apps fast & hassle-free using Fastlane & Awesome CD Tools.
But that's not all - the awesome Paige Niedringhaus came on the show to co-host and Salman Tariq - Senior Software Engineer at @PeekabooGuru was the special guest!
October 7, 2021
On this episode of React Wednesdays, a veteran of the show returned - Zain Sajjad came back to discuss solutions available to deploy your react apps with a few clicks, plus he'll dive into some cool custom scripting.
But that's not all - Furqan Ali - Principal Software Engineer at @PeekabooGuru joined the show as a special guest!
September 30, 2021
On this episode of React Wednesdays, we explored Astro - a modern static site builder that allows you to use React (and any other framework) while shipping bare-minimum client-side JavaScript.
Nate Moore from Astro demonstrated how to use Astro with your existing React components and discussed Astro's forthcoming WASM-powered compiler.
August 27, 2021
On this episode of React Wednesdays, we welcomed in Ryan Carniato, a member of the Marko team at eBay, and the author of Solid JS. Solid is a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
It has some features that are similar to React (component model, hooks), but also some that are quite different—for example, Solid doesn’t use a virtual DOM.
Ryan demoed Solid for us, and discussed how and why React developers might want to check out Solid.
This was a fun one as Solid is growing in popularity, and we're curious to see it in action.
August 16, 2021
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TJ VanToll is a front-end developer, author, and a Principal Developer Advocate for Progress. TJ has over a decade of web development experience, including a few years working on the jQuery and NativeScript teams. Nowadays he helps web developers build awesome UIs with KendoReact.
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