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RRU 029: Christopher Buecheler: "Getting Ready To Teach? Lessons learned from building an 84-tutorial software course"
Panel: Charles Max Wood Lucas Reis (NY) Nader Dabit Special Guests: Christopher Buecheler In this episode, the panel talks with Christopher Buecheler who is a web developer and moved into JavaScript in 2000. Christopher runs his own business, and records and edits videos among many other responsibilities. He also has a lot of hobbies, and guitars are one of them. Check out today’s episode where the panel and Christopher talk about how to form a tutorial course from start to finish. Show Topics: 2:38 – Chuck: I always am fascinated by how there are a lot of programmers who are musicians. 3:00 – Panelist: Yes, I agree. Coding takes creativity. People who are programmers are surprisingly into different arts where it asks for the person’s creativity. 3:17 – Panelist: Video games, music, cocktails, etc. 4:05 – Guest: Yes, for a while I liked to make beer. My current kitchen doesn’t allow for it now, though. 4:25 – Chuck: So your 84/86 tutorial course... 4:46 – Guest: I liked to be one or two weeks ahead. Now building the entire app, instead of doing it week-to-week. 5:35 – Chuck: What is the process like – building these videos? 5:51 – Guest: I try to focus on MVP products that are super easy, and that aren’t too complicated. For example, Music List. Add albums and artists, and see other people’s lists. It ended up being a long tutorial. The process: I build the app, rebuild the app from scratch, I start with a script, read the pretty version and have the marked-down one for my use. The script goes up as the text tutorial. Do my video editing in Adobe Premiere. 7:55 – Question from panel. 8:52 – Panelist: I have found that extremely hard to do. 9:29 – Chuck talks about his process of recording his tutorials. Chuck: I don’t have a script; I just walk through it as I am going along. You can get it transcribed, which I have done in the past. I have a license for Adobe Premiere. 11:04 – Panelist: I never recorded a tutorial before but I have written a lot of blog posts. I reviewed it, and reviewing it is a very interesting take. I learn a lot in the process. The things cement in my mind while reviewing. Videos you have the real-time thing going on. 12:00 – Guest adds additional comments. 13:39 – Chuck chimes in. Chuck: We really appreciate you leaving the mistakes in. 14:11 – Guest: Yes, they watch you debug. 14:20 – Panelist: Most of your tutorials are beginner focused, right? 14:23 – Guest: Yes. Christopher goes into detail here. 17:13 – Chuck chimes in. Chuck: My thought is to learn x, y, z in 1 hour. 17:35 – Guest: People are attracted to shorter tutorials. 5-minute React. Don’t build an 84 tutorial course. They are built up to digestible chunks. It’s not wall-to-wall coding, because that would seem overwhelming to me. Let’s learn something in a bite-size chunk. 18:41 – Panelist: Egghead. Because of their guidelines they do good work. 1-5 minutes long tutorials. You can get a good run-down and a good introduction. 19:24 – Panelist: You can find it really easy. You don’t need a 1-hour video. 19:40 – Chuck: Yeah, to break it up in small sections. People will see this in my e-book course. 20:02 – Panelist: Do people give you a lot of feedback? What parts of this React course do people have most difficulty with? 20:21 – Guest: It’s not React based, it’s actually other issues. 210:6 – Guest: Redux. 21:53 – Guest: What’s the best way to use props? Where should I put my Logic versus... 22:15 – Panelist: This is very similar when I teach... 22:46 – Guest: I have seen people say that if you truly see how this works in JavaScript then you really understand how JavaScript works. React can be confusing if you are using class-based components. You have to use binder or error functions, etc. It becomes confusing at times. Another area you mentioned was state: component state or your application state. Two different things, but they interact with each other. Understanding the difference between the two. Should I store it in this store or...? 24:09 – Digital Ocean Advertisement. 24:47 – Panelist: Were you doing this as a side thing? How do you keep up in the industry if you aren’t making “real” projects? 25:25 – Guest gives his answer plus his background with companies, clients, and programs. Guest: I really wanted to build my own company, when I was thinking of ideas I came across some great brainstorming ideas. I have a lot of traffic coming to these tutorials. I really liked giving something back to the web development community. I liked interacting with people and getting them to their “Ah Ha!” moment. It’s able to support me and helps me moving forward. I follow a ton of people on Twitter – the React team. I pay a ton of attention to what people are looking to learn. I play around those things for my own edification. I pick up some contract work and it helps me to stay current. It’s always a culmination for things. Part of the job is not to fall behind. If you are creating tutorials you have to reteach yourself things as things changes. 28:46 – Panelist asks another question. How do you get new leads and new customers? 20:02 – Guest answers questions. Guest: I was on a mentality if “I build it they will come.” This isn’t the best mentality. That was not a good approach. I started working with a consultant: how do we get this out to people? No ads, no subscription service. My e-mail list. I have gone from 1,600 to 4,600 people on my email list. Find the people who are interested. 32:52 – Guest: Find your voice, and how you choose to deliver your information. Text? Video? Or both? What do you want to teach? Don’t teach what you think will sell the most. It’s more important to be excited an interested what you are teaching. 34:05 – Panelist: When I am teaching something I try to remember of the feeling when I was learning it. For example, Harrison Ford. What was I thinking? How did I learn this concept? 35:01 – Guest: When I learned React it was because a client asked me to learn it. 4-6 weeks of exhausting terror and me trying to learn this to make useful code for this client. In about that time (4-6 weeks) “Oh I understand what I am doing now!” We are still on good terms today with this said client. When I am trying to learn something, the next level is here is a blog, and comments. There aren’t a lot of intermediary steps. They explain every kind of step. I took a similar approach with my other course. That’s informed by my own experience when learning these different technologies. 37:08 – Guest: Yes – check out my newsletter, and my new resource every week. Follow me at Twitter or my personal Twitter where I talk about the NBA too much. Email me if you have any questions. 38:11 – Chuck: Anything else? Okay, picks! 38:24 – Chuck’s Advertisement for His Course! 39:01 – Picks! Links: Kendo UI Ruby on Rails Angular Get A Coder Job Redux Adobe Premiere Close Brace Five Minute React Egghead State of JavaScript Statecharts James R. Nelson Christopher Buecheler’s Website Christopher Buecheler’s Books Christopher Buecheler’s Twitter Christopher Buecheler’s LinkedIn Sponsors: Kendo UI Digital Ocean Get A Coder Job Picks: Charles Pre-Sale: Get A Coder Job DevChat TV Website – Notion.So Lucas Statecharts Nader Book Title: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Author is a sociologist. Going through their day-to-day lives of these low-income families. A lot of it has to do with a room over their head. How they struggle and how poverty goes from one generation to the next. Christopher Shout-Out to a friend – Christopher’s Site 5-Minute React Videos Special Guest: Christopher Buecheler.
RRU 028: “Microstates.js – Composable State Primitive” with Taras Mankovski & Charles Lowell
Panel: Charles (Chuck) Max Wood Lucas Reis Special Guests: Charles Lowell & Taras Mankovski In this episode, the panel talks with two special guests Charles and Taras. Charles Lowell is a principle engineer at Frontside, and he loves to code. Taras works with Charles and joined Frontside, because of Charles’ love for coding. There are great personalities at Frontside, which are quite diverse. Check out this episode to hear about microstates, microstates with react, OM, Redux, and much more! Show Topics: 2:32 – Chuck: Why do we need it (microstates) and why do we need another state library? 2:42 – Charles answers Chuck’s question. Charles goes to explain that if you need to increment the number, you don’t need to do it with microstates. 3:41 – Another suggestion is given on this topic. 5:13 – The application isn’t hard in-of-itself. 6:45 – Chuck makes comments, and asks: It seems to be more like object-oriented approach? 7:44 – Objects compose much more easily. When you are dealing with pure functional code you are de-structuring and restructuring. Check-out LENSES. 9:53 – Taras makes comments. What were your inspirations for microstate? 10:27 – Charles: The personal journey it started for me started back in 2015. When I was working primarily in Ember.” Charles makes a reference to OM, check it out! 15:40 – Charles: “We had a goal in mind, and we kept that goal on mind and kept ‘dipping into the candy jar.’ We had to learn about the functional mumbo-jumbo. The goal was never to use those things. Whatever tools we needed from the functional world, we borrowed from freely.” 16:50 – Chuck asks a question. 17:00 – Taras answers chuck’s question. 19:58 – Charles (guest) keeps the conversation going and goes into detail about how to handle different scenarios with different tools. 21:00 – Question: How do you think microstate enters into this situation? 21:45 – The design of microstate is that it gives you a solution that is flexible. Other options aren’t as comprehensive like where you can use it; for example Redux. 23:49 – Another way to say it is...check-out this timestamp to hear other ideas about this topic. 24:53 – Digital Ocean’s Advertisement 25:28 – Conversation is back into swing. Question: There is a very interesting design with people who are not developers. What are the benefits or do they play together? 26:41 – As a frontend shop, there is a very clean mapping between state machine and type. The type corresponds to the state transitions, among others. For every state you have a class, and you have a method for every transition. It’s a great design tool. 29:07 – We don’t talk about states very often, right now, but in the near future we will. The valuable goals for us are to give people tools that will work correctly for them. To help people be more productive that is a great goal. One thing from people, I’ve learned, is to ask yourself ‘what needs to change?’ 33:03 – Now you are touching on the subject of teaching. What about mentoring with microstates? 33:26 – Success (to one of the panelists) is defined of how confident a person is with X program or tool. If they have ease, then they are on the right path. With mentoring in microstates the design speaks its purpose, the transitions are clear, so the panelist feels that he doesn’t really have to go into a lot of detail explaining the features. 36:25 – In the React community... 39:12 – Curious: Would we really be able to distribute state like how we distribute components? What is out-of-reach now, is that we have the state machine for the autocomplete component. 40:27 – Chuck: Is there a way to test microstates? 41:28 – Shameless plug...check it out! 42:31 – Anything else? Microstates and Microstates with React. 42:48 – If anyone is interested in this, then we are interested in talking with these people and/or companies. 43:29 – Let’s go to Picks! 43:31 – Advertisement for Charles Max Wood’s course! Links: Kendo UI OM Frontside Redux Microstates Microstates with React Taras Mankovski’s Twitter Taras Mankovski’s GitHub Taras Mankovski’s LinkedIn Taras Mankovski’s Frontside Bio Charles Lowell’s Twitter Charles Lowell’s GitHub Charles Lowell’s Frontside Bio Schedule Once Ruby on Rails Angular Get A Coder Job Sponsors: Kendo UI Digital Ocean Get A Coder Job Picks: Charles (Chuck) Framework Summit – Chuck will be talking at this conference in UT. Ebook – Finding a Job. Prelaunch in August. Final version launches on Labor Day. Lucas Take care of your health! Martial Arts and Jujitsu Nutrition Charles (guest) Fantasy Land JS - Tom Harding Funcadelic.JS Taras (guest) BigTest Special Guests: Charles Lowell and Taras Mankovski.
RRU 027: "Why I Prefer Functional Components" with Josh St. Jacque
Panel: Charles Max Wood Nader Dabit Special Guests: Josh Saint Jacque In this episode, the panel talks with Josh St. Jacque who is married with two kids and with one on the way. He is a professional product manager and software engineer. Ruby on Rails got him started on his career path and journey. Check-out today’s episode where the panel discusses functional and class components, among many other things! Show Topics: 2:12 – Let’s have a conversation about functional components. 3:20 – Chuck to Nader: “What is your preference between class and functional components?” 4:18 – Nader to Josh: “What is your take on pure components” 5:20 – Who makes these architectural decisions at T-Mobile? 5:46 – Josh: It really depends on the team and the project depending on how they want to proceed. Josh mentions Angular among other things. 7:38 – Chuck to Josh: It seems that through your post you are trying to make code easier? 8:01 – Josh’s background is Ruby, and basic principles. 9:12 – Question directed to Josh about components. 11:05 – Functional components. 11:35 – Some say that functional components are faster/slower than others. 12:50 – When do you know you need/do not need a functional component? 13:15 Josh uses functional component as his default but, of course, there are different factors for him to consider. The presentational stuff is separated. Sometimes he does convert it over. 14:21 – Let’s talk through the log post. 18:15 – Digital Ocean’s mid-roll advertisement! 20:58 – The panel talks about pros and cons of the different components. 21:33 – Ruby on Rails 22:06 – “Why aren’t you using...?” I understand what the tradeoffs are and will change when that time comes. 23:03 – Is there a certain thing that you would tell them about React applications? Is it more just best practice and it doesn’t really change their learning of the framework? 23:28 – Whenever you get comfortable then start exploring another pattern. When you get really comfortable, then you might never see the tradeoffs by using other options. It’s good for a developer to always be open-minded. Keep yourself uncomfortable, and don’t have just one tool in your belt. Try functional components just to keep it fresh. 25:00 – Josh answers a question from Chuck. 27:00 – Josh talks about things to avoid, etc. 27:42 – Nader: “Have you seen the new features and possibly the new features that will be added on later?” 28:01 – Josh has started using new features and he talks about the pros and cons of these. 29:55 – Chuck to Josh: “Are there any features to the components that you wish they would add?” 30:08 – Josh: I never really have run into anything, yet, that is too frustrating. I really like that it is a little limited, and no real big complaints. I would imagine that there are good components around function. 31:42 – Nader to Josh: “Any other topics?” 31:54 – One thing Josh would like to say is that you and your team are on the same page. You don’t want to get into fights on what style you are using. You don’t want to constantly be changing the code. Use one thing at a time or it will get real messy too quick. One example of this is from Ruby: hash rockets. 33:35 – How to find Josh online...look at links below! Links: Kendo UI Ruby on Rails Josh St. Jacque’s LinkedIn Josh St. Jacque’s Medium Josh St. Jacque’s GitHub Josh St. Jacque’s Article on Medium T-Mobile Angular Get A Coder Job Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry Digital Ocean Get A Coder Job Picks: *Charles Conference in October (UT) Frameworks Summit Podcast Movement CES Home Depot Tool Rental *Nader “A Tale of Four Components” by Pearl Latteier Nader’s Blog *Josh Video Game Soundtracks – Spotify VS Code Extension Weight Loss – Ice Cream – Enlightened Special Guest: Josh St. Jacque.
RRU 026: Building React Applications in a Monorepo with Luis Vieira
Panel: Charles Max Wood Nader Dabit Lucas Reis Special Guests: Luis Vieira In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Luis Vieira about his “Building large scale react applications in a monorepo”. Luis works in Portugal at a company called FarFetch as a front-end architect where he works mostly on JavaScript and infrastructure. They talk about the rationale behind his article, shared components, and what Lerna is and what is does. They also touch on Semantic Versioning, the difference between monolithic application and a monorepo, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Luis intro Front-end architect at FarFetch Works with JavaScript Rationale behind his article Dividing a project in multiple packages Sharing components between multiple applications Editing shared components Working in a monorepo Simplifies managing between different projects Requires more tooling What is Lerna? If you put multiple packages in one repo, how do you deal with things like the Git history getting mixed up? Versioning How does Semantic Versioning interplay with monorepos? What if you’re not using Semantic Versioning? Using the conventional commit How is the state of CI tooling regarded? He is currently more focused on React What he is experimenting with currently Building monolithic apps Monolithic aps VS monorepo Bazel Nrwl Nx And much, much more! Links: “Building large scale react applications in a monorepo” FarFetch JavaScript Lerna Semantic Versioning React Bazel Nrwl Nx Luis’s Medium @luisvieira_gmr Luis’s Newsletter Sponsors Kendo UI Digital Ocean Get a Coder Job Picks: Charles Take some time off Take a step back to reevaluate Nader Free workshop with Tyler McGinnis to come soon. Keep an eye out at Nader’s Twitter or Tyler’s Newsletter React Native EU Lucas Sketch.systems Luis Vue CLI Special Guest: Luis Vieira.
RRU 025: 2 Years of React Native at Artsy with Orta Therox
Panel: Nader Dabit Sia Karamalegos Lucas Reis Special Guests: Orta Therox In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Orta Therox about his 2 years of experience with React Native at Artsy. Orta has about 15 years of native Mac and iOS development experience and about 2 ½ years ago, his team decided to start writing their iOS app in React Native. They talk about the different popular blog posts about React Native, why his team decided to switch over to React Native, and the effects of team size on the success of the fit of React Native in each company’s app. They also touch on professional growth, how they have trained their employees, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Orta intro React Native and JavaScript React Native at Artsy blog post React Native at Airbnb blog post Suspense Web engineering Taking different approaches Being a better way to build an iOS app Adoption coming from a native perspective Does the size of the team matter? Product verticals How do you balance the need for professional development VS what’s needed at the moment? Vertically oriented teams Professional growth after the change GraphQL API Training everyone over multiple years React Allowing anyone to contribute anywhere within their domain How they describe their native engineers More excited about React Native now than when it was released Artsy React Native Conference And much, much more! Links: Artsy React Native JavaScript React Native at Artsy React Native at Airbnb GraphQL React @orta orta.io Orta’s GitHub Artsy Engineering Sponsors Kendo UI Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Nader AWS Amplify Artsy Engineering blog Nader’s GitHub Sia Styled components Web Summer Camp Lucas MDN web docs Orta vscode-inline-types Coalition for Queens (C4Q) Special Guest: Orta Therox.
RRU 024: Webamp with Jordan Eldredge
Panel: Sia Karamalegos Lucas Reis Special Guests: Jordan Eldredge In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Jordan Eldredge about his project Webamp. Jordan’s first introduction to programming had to do with music which led him to work both as a singer to now being an engineer. They talk about how common it is for programmers to have diverse backgrounds, especially in front-end developers, what Webamp and Winamp are, and what he originally wrote Webamp in. they also touch on his inspiration for creating this project, his journey in creating Webamp, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Jordan intro Studied music (opera) in college Forced himself to learn PHP and MySQL Common in front-end developing to have people with diverse backgrounds Why do you think it’s so common to have diverse backgrounds? Front-end web development is very young Self-taught developers What is Webamp? Reimplementation of Winamp in JavaScript What is Winamp? What did you originally write Webamp in? What was the inspiration for creating Webamp? CSS Sprites Wanting to recreate Winamp skins jQuery originally Rewrote in “vanilla” JavaScript The process of learning real JavaScript Managing transitions VS managing state React with Redux Do you believe your struggle with “vanilla” JS made you more aware of what React really brings? You Might Not Need Redux by Dan Abramov How did you deal with the audio API? The thing he loves about side-projects Not having a deadline Using a Redux middleware And much, much more! Links: Webamp MySQL Winamp JavaScript jQuery React Redux You Might Not Need Redux by Dan Abramov Jordaneldredge.com @captbaritone Jordan’s GitHub Sponsors Kendo UI Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Sia Google Docs Lucas Timing App Jordan @winampskins Inspiring Online WACUP Special Guest: Jordan Eldredge.
RRU 023: High-Performance GraphQL on Postgres with Hasura Tanmai Gopal
Panel: Nader Dabit Sia Karamalegos Special Guests: Tanmai Gopal In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Tanmai Gopal. Tanmai is the founder at Hasura, where they have been building a GraphQL tooling that helps accelerate being able to use GraphQL for app developers. They talk about what Hasura is and what inspired him to build it, what Haskell does to Postgres, and query variables in GraphQL. They also touch on the importance of being aware of the database, how authorization works, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Tanmai intro Founder of Hasura Has been building applications for about a decade Focus on functional programming How did you get into React? Using Redux and GaphQL How long has Hasura been around? What inspired you to build Hasura? Eliminating the middle layer The elevator pitch of Hasura Do you offer a database as a service? Slightly different than writing your own resolvers What Haskell does to Postgres Query variables in GraphQL Prepared statements in Postgres Making queries from aps GraphQL ORM for apps Being aware of the database How does authorization work? PostGraphile, Prisma, and Hasura How do PostGraphile and Prisma compare to Hasura? And much, much more! Links: Hasura React Redux GaphQL Haskell Postgres PostGraphile Prisma @tanmaigo Tanmai’s Blog Tanmai’s GitHub @HasuraHQ Sponsors Kendo UI Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Nader React Native EU talk Sia Gatsby.js Tanmai Building a new tool Special Guest: Tanmai Gopal.
RRU 022: RxJS and redux-observable with Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh
Panel: Nader Dabit Sia Karamalegos Special Guests: Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh about RxJS and redux-observable. Tracy, Jay, and Ben are the RxJS ThisDot Media group and where they do support contracts for RxJS, staff augmentation, developer relations, and put on events. They talk about what observables are and what they are trying to solve, the most common use cases for getting started with observables, and what Promises and Async/Await are. They also touch on what they like most about RxJS, how versatile it is, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Tracy, Jay, and Ben intro ThisDot RxJS What is an observable? What problems are observables trying to solve? JavaScript Learn observables Making everything functional in the library Means of encapsulating values you want pushed at you later on Downside to observables Little bit of a learning curve Most common uses for getting started with observables Can Promises and Async/Await be mixed with observables? What do Promises and Async/Await allow you to do? Defer function Await values coming in from observables What do you like about RxJS? Allows you to work with all different languages RxJS is very versatile ngrx “Rx all the things” What inspired you to write Redux observable? Redux-observable RxJS docs Epics And much, much more! Links: ThisDot JavaScript RxJS ngrx Redux Redux-observable RxJS docs @ladyleet Tracy’s GitHub @BenLesh Ben’s Medium Ben’s GitHub @_jayphelps Jay’s GitHub RxJS GitHub @ThisDotLabs Sponsors Kendo UI Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Nader JSCamp Sia Sprint by Jake Knapp Tracy Fashionnova.com Francesca’s Jay deno applitools Ben react-streams StackBlitz Special Guests: Ben Lesh, Jay Phelps, and Tracy Lee.
RRU 021: Building SharePoint Extensions with JavaScript with Vesa Juvonen LIVE at Microsoft Build
Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Vesa Juvonen In this episode, the React Round Up panel talks to Vesa Juvonen about building SharePoint extensions with JavaScript. Vesa is on the SharePoint development team and is responsible for the SharePoint Framework, which is the modern way of implementing SharePoint customizations with JavaScript. They talk about what SharePoint is, why they chose to use JavaScript with it, and how he maintains isolation. They also touch on the best way to get started with SharePoint, give some great resources to help you use it, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Vesa intro What is SharePoint? Has existed since 2009 People either know about it and use it or don’t know what it is Baggage from a customization perspective Why JavaScript developers? Modernizing development SharePoint Framework Microsoft Ignite Conference Is there a market for it? System integrators Angular Element and React React for SharePoint Framework back-end Supports Vue React Round Up Podcast How do you maintain isolation? What’s the best way to get started with SharePoint extensions? Office 365 Developer Program SharePoint documentation SharePoint YouTube What kinds of extensions are you seeing people build? And much, much more! Links: SharePoint JavaScript SharePoint Framework Microsoft Ignite Conference Angular Element React Vue React Round Up Podcast Office 365 Developer Program SharePoint documentation SharePoint YouTube @OfficeDev @vesajuvonen Vesa’s blog Vesa’s GitHub Sponsors Angular Boot Camp Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Charles Zig Ziglar Conversations with My Dog by Zig Ziglar Pimsleur Lessons on Audible Vesa Armada by Ernest Cline Special Guest: Vesa Juvonen.
RRU 020: How to Get a Job (Especially for New Developers) with Charles Max Wood
Panel: Charles Max Wood Lucas Reis Sia Karamalegos In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk about finding a job as a developer. Charles is getting ready to release a course on finding a job and he finds that he is always getting asked about how new developers can find a job. They talk about how they all found their first coder job, picking your target company, and understanding what you want in a job. They also touch on Charles’ upcoming course, the importance of showing initiative, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Sign up to chat with Charles at DevChat.tv/15Minutes Why they want to touch on this topic Get used to failure CodeSchool Hack Night meetup Going to meetups to slowly start networking Making friends with developers in your community Networking before you need a job Learning and helping mindset Don’t be afraid to ask if people are hiring How did you figure out what your target company was? Checking out the culture of a company Understanding the travel involved Figure out what you like in a job as you go Always be looking at your portfolio and resume Gain as much experience as you can everywhere you go Stick to learning one language/system Really master the languages/systems of the company you want to uses Show initiative Finding a champion at your target company And much, much more! Links: DevChat.tv/15Minutes CodeSchool Hack Night meetup Charles’ Course How to interview your interviewers blog post Ruby Rogues Episode 184 Sponsors Kendo UI Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Charles Orphan Black His Course Lucas The Best Software Engineering Paper You Haven’t Read Sia Family
RRU 019: Error Tracking and Troubleshooting Workflows with David Cramer LIVE at Microsoft Build
Panel: Charles Max Wood Alyssa Nicholl Ward Bell Special Guests: David Cramer In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to David Cramer about error tracking and troubleshooting workflows. David is the founder and CEO of Sentry, and is a software engineer by trade. He started this project about a decade ago and it was created because he had customers telling him that things were broken and it was hard to help them fix it. They talk about what Sentry is, errors, workflow management, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: David intro Founder and CEO of Sentry What is Sentry? Working with PHP De-bugger for production Focus on workflow Goal of Sentry Triaging the problem Workflow management Sentry started off as an open-source side project Instrumentation for JavaScript Ember, Angular, and npm Got their start in Python Logs Totally open-source Most compatible with run-time Can work with any language Deep contexts Determining the root cause And much, much more! Links: Sentry JavaScript Ember Angular npm Python Sentry’s GitHub @getsentry David’s GitHub David’s Website @zeeg Sponsors Kendo UI Loot Crate FreshBooks Picks: Charles Socks as Swag David VS Code Kubernetes Special Guest: David Cramer.
RRU 018: Evolving Patterns in React with Alex Moldovan
Panel: Charles Max Wood Lucas Reis Nader Dabit Special Guests: Alex Moldovan In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the article Evolving Patterns in React with its author, Alex Moldovan. Alex is from Romania and works at Fortech as an engineering manager where he works mostly with the front-end development. He also is one of the co-founders of JSHeroes, which is the biggest JavaScript conference in Romania that also has a growing international community behind it. They answer some of Charles questions about React, talk about his article, their thoughts on the new changes, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Lucas was on React Round Up Episode 11 Lucas intro – works for Zocdoc as a senior front-end developer Alex intro At Fortech as an engineering manager Co-founder of JSHeroes His article Evolving Patterns in React React.createClass rather than ES6 class Started working with React in 2015 React and Redux Nobody knew how to actually build an application in React in the beginning Mixins What has replaced the idea of mixins? Higher Order Components Render Props article by Michael Jackson Implicit with mixins to explicit with render props What about Context? Do you think these new changes are addressing how we build React apps? Thoughts on the new APIs and changes from 16 to 17 Error boundaries Suspense Server-side rendering Using the Constructor Evolving patterns And much, much more! Links: React Round Up Episode 11 Zocdoc Fortech JSHeroes JavaScript Evolving Patterns in React React Redux Render Props article by Michael Jackson React Context React Constructor Alex’s Medium Alex’s GitHub @alexnmoldovan Sponsors Kendo UI Loot Crate FreshBooks Picks: Charles Star Realms Hogwarts Battles Lucas SpeedCurve Nader AWS AppSync GitHub Repo Building AI Enabled GraphQL Applications by Nader appsync-lambda-ai Alex Graphcool Prisma TensorFlow.js Special Guest: Alex Moldovan.
RRU 017: Cloud-Hosted DevOps with Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari LIVE at Microsoft Build
Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari In this episode, the React Round UP panelists discuss Cloud-Hosted DevOps with Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari at Microsoft Build. Ori is on the product team at VSTS focusing on DevOps specifically on Azure. Gopinath is the group program manager in VSTS primarily working on continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps, Azure deployment, etc. They talk about the first steps people should take when getting into DevOps, define DevOps the way Microsoft views it, the advantages to automation, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ori and Gopi intro VSTS – Visual Studio Team Services VSTS gives developers the ability to be productive Developer productivity What’s the first big step people should be taking if they’re getting into DevOps? The definition of DevOps The people and the processes as the most important piece DevOps as the best practices Automating processes What people do when things go wrong is what really counts Letting the system take care of the problems Have the developers work on what they are actually getting paid for Trend of embracing DevOps Shifting the production responsibility more onto the developer’s Incentivizing developers People don’t account for integration Continuous integration Trends on what customers are asking for Safety Docker containers And much, much more! Links: Azure Microsoft Build VSTS @orizhr Ori’s GitHub Gopi’s GitHub @gopinach Sponsors Kendo UI Linode FreshBooks Picks: Charles .NET Rocks! Shure SM58 Microphone Zoom H6 Ori Fitbit Pacific Northwest Hiking Gopinath Seattle, WA Special Guests: Gopinath Chigakkagari and Ori Zohar.
RRU 016: React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture with James Sinclair
Panel: Charles Max Wood Sia Karamalegos Nader Dabit Special Guests: Jared Palmer In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the article React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture with the author James Sinclair. James is a web developer in Australia and he works at Squiz were he focuses on building a digital web place. They talk about his article and why he chose to write it, where he falls on the whole Redux debate, how to convince people to come to Redux, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: James intro React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture Why were the people you are working with wary of leaving JavaScript? jQuery Great article on explaining why we use React Why React can be fast Is your team now moving to React or have they already moved over? Where do you fall on the Redux debate? Redux’s “disadvantages” are actually advantages What is your current stack of choice? Downshift Conditioner.js Most React tutorials assume you’re working on a single-page web app Sprinkles of jQuery Learning Redux helps to learn in a more functional way Functional programming as an influence to learn Redux Managing state How do you convince someone to learn Redux? Thoughts on GraphQL Apollo Server and Prisma Stimulus Apollo Link State And much, much more! Links: React, Redux, and JavaScript Architecture Squiz JavaScript jQuery React Redux Downshift Conditioner.js GraphQL Apollo Server Prisma Stimulus Apollo Link State jrsinclair.com @jrsinclair James’ LinkedIn James’ GitHub Sponsors Kendo UI Loot Crate FreshBooks Picks: Charles Being around family and friends Spend your life doing the things that really matter Sia Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Nader React Native Training YouTube Channel Nader’s YouTube James Highland.js Functional Programming Special Guest: James Sinclair.
RRU 015: Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner LIVE at Microsoft Build
Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner In this episode, the React Round Up panelists discuss Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner, who are both developers on Visual Studio Code. They talk about what the workflow at Visual Studio Code looks like, what people can look forward to coming out soon, and how people can follow along the VS Code improvements on GitHub and Twitter. They also touch on their favorite extensions, like the Docker extension and the Azure extension and their favorite VS Code features. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Rachel and Matt intro Month to month workflow of Visual Studio Code VS Code JavaScript, TypeScript, and Mark Down support Working on GitHub and within the community Check out new features incrementally with insiders Community-driven work What is coming out in Visual Studio Code? GitHub helps to determine what they work on Working on Grid View Improved settings UI Highlighting unused variables in your code Improvements with JS Docs Dart Visual Studio Extension API How do people follow along with the VS Code improvements? Follow along on GitHub and Twitter Download VS Code Insiders Have a general roadmap of what the plan is for the year Technical debt week What do you wish people knew about VS Code? Favorite extensions Docker extension and Azure extension And much, much more! Links: Visual Studio Code JavaScript TypeScript Dart VS Code GitHub @Code VS Code Insiders Docker extension Azure extension Rachel’s GitHub Matt’s GitHub MattBierner.com @mattbierner Sponsors Linode Angular Boot Camp FreshBooks Picks: Charles Orphan Black Avengers: Infinity War Fishing Rachel GitLens Matt The Bronx Warriors Special Guests: Matt Bierner and Rachel MacFarlane.