React: then & now

React: then & now

Author: Changelog Media December 5, 2024 Duration: 1:13:16
Back at React Summit in New York, KBall & Nick sat down with Tom Occhino & Shruti Kapoor for more fascinating conversations. Tom Occhino, a key figure in React's history at Facebook (now Meta), reveals the origin story of React, which began when an ads engineer presented a revolutionary approach to web UI rendering. The discussion extends to React's evolution through Next.js. Then, Shruti Kapoor breaks down React 19's major features, including React Server Components (RSC), the new compiler implementation, and enhanced APIs that promise to streamline development workflows.

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Podcast Episodes
Modernizing packages to ESM [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:15
Mark Erikson (web dev professor/historian, OSS Maintainer & engineer at Replay) joins us to talk about the shift from CommonJS to ESM. We discuss the history of module patterns in JS and the grueling effort to push the w…
Ten years of TypeScript bliss [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:49
Nick celebrates a decade of writing everyone's favorite language with guest Josh Goldberg, who contributes to TypeScript, maintains typescript-eslint, and is an all-around great person! Jerod is also here to join the cel…
Refined thinking [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:32
Jim (Hyphen) Nielsen joins Jerod & Nick for a fun conversation about language-level toll roads, when (and how) to quit, the stratification of social networking & the state of the world in publishing your thoughts on the…
Take me to Val Town [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:18
Val Town is a shiny, new social programming environment to write, run, deploy and share code. Steve Krouse –Val Town creator– joins Jerod & Amal to tell us all about it.
An intimate conversation about careers [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:44
KBall and Amal go deep on careers. They share their career journeys, talk through learnings and mishaps that happened along the way, and break down key factors to understand about big role transitions like "Senior->Staff…
Frontend Feud: CSS Pod vs Whiskey Web and Whatnot [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:56
Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers Chuck & Robbie from Whiskey Web and Whatnot. Let's get it on!
This is going to be Lit 🔥 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:03
Justin Fagnani joins us this week to talk about Lit, a library that helps you build web components. With 17% of pageviews in Chrome registering use of web components, Lit has gained widespread adoption across a variety o…
Fundamentals all the way down [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:04
Austin Gil returns to JS Party, bringing a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of file uploads. Brace for an insightful session as we navigate the complexities of this key JavaScript topic together, much like a dedicat…
The massive bug at the heart of npm [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:03
Darcy Clarke, former GitHub Staff Engineering Manager and founder of vlt, joins us to discuss a major bug in the npm ecosystem that he recently disclosed. We cover the bug's timeline, nuances, and impact, all while setti…
Is print debugging good enough? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:10
Let's debate debugging techniques! Do you print debug or dive deep into debugging tools? KBall & Jerod argue that print statements are all you need while Amal & guest Eric Clemmons take the other side. Who will win and w…