Frontend First Sam Selikoff, Ryan Toronto
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A podcast about modern UI development on the web. Hosted by Sam Selikoff and Ryan Toronto.
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CodeMirror | Radix Themes
Sam tells Ryan about his experience setting up an in-browser code editor with CodeMirror that he plans on using for blog posts and code recipes, as well as what he thought about using Radix Themes for the first time in earnest on a side project of his currently styled with Tailwind.
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Throw is about control flow – not error handling
Sam and Ryan talk about why it’s better to think of throw as a general-purpose JavaScript language feature rather than something that should only be used for error handling. They discuss the ambiguity around the phrase “error handling”, situations that call for dealing with errors locally vs. globally, and how throw can be useful for non-error control flow. They also discuss the problems with trying to shoehorn dynamic features into a static site.
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The Philosophy of Next.js
Sam and Ryan discuss the core values of the Next.js framework, and how those values motivate several of the framework’s design decisions. They talk about caching, why layouts don’t have access to the URL, and why the router doesn’t expose navigation events, as well as how developers should think about extending Next’s functionality with their own application code.
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Beyond Data Fetching with RSCs
Sam talks to Ryan about refactoring an MDX blog post to a React Server Component. They discuss how RSC’s ability to render server-side content with “client-side holes” turns out to replace MDX for many uses cases. They also talk about other tools that are (surprisingly) a conceptual subset of the RSC architecture, such as custom Webpack loaders.
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Blog Post Club: React Labs – What We’ve Been Working On
Sam and Ryan read and discuss the latest update from React Labs.
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Instant URL search params in Next.js
Sam and Ryan discuss the intuition behind React Transitions, and why React’s new useOptimistic hook is a good fit for building a URL-driven filter panel that stays fully responsive to client interactions.
Customer Reviews
Real World Development Discussion
What I enjoy about this podcast is that Ryan and Sam talk about the pitfalls and successes of not just Ember, but web development in general. Nothing is perfect and as developers, we all encounter rough edges and it’s refreshing to hear their discussions and thoughts.
One of the hosts is really rude
I think it is Sam. I only listened to one episode where they are chatting about server components. I really felt sorry for Ryan. Every time when Ryan wanted to say something he got interrupted by Sam who never used server components. As an listener, I was really hoping I could hear Ryan’s understanding on the server components because it is him who played with server components, but Sam kept interrupting Ryan and talking about his understanding based on his guess.It’s so annoying that I couldn’t really learn anything from this kind of chat.
One of my goto podcasts
Sam and Ryan do a fantasitc job unpacking the nuances and challenges of building real applications using Ember. I listen to every one of these and look forward to the next.