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Cassidy Williams and Michael Chan discuss the rise of web components, React frustrations, and share their hot takes on web development. They delve into the benefits and drawbacks of using web components, the evolution of React, and the popularity of Next.js. Cassidy's articulation and the frustration of job insecurity in the DX field are also highlighted.

The Primeagen joins the podcast to talk about the latest trends in web development. They explore the constant hype and adoption of new technologies, navigating hype cycles, the importance of critical thinking, embracing uniqueness, htmx's popularity, React's level of interactivity, and the problem of excessive abstraction in web development.

Web components are having a renaissance and Chris Ferdinandi, educator and consultant, returns to the podcast to talk about web components, what they are, and why devs should consider using them. Links https://gomakethings.com https://twitter.com/ChrisFerdinandi https://www.linkedin.com/in/cferdinandi https://github.com/cferdinandi https://www.youtube.com/@gomakethings https://mastodon.social/@cferdinandi We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today.Special Guest: Chris Ferdinandi.

In today's episode, Anthony Shew, Turbo DX at Vercel, joins us to discuss Turborepo 1.11, Turbopack in 2024, and more. Links https://www.shew.dev https://twitter.com/anthonysheww https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwfYq8O-1QtU1TlWsJVGRBg?reload=9 https://www.threads.net/@anthonyshew https://discord.com/invite/JMHERJGRkH https://github.com/anthonyshew Case studies for performance impact on business: https://wpostats.com https://web.dev/case-studies Research for the impact of loading speed on conversion rate: https://www.bidnamic.com/en-us/resources/how-website-speed-affects-your-conversion-rates User experience hierarchy (performance on top): https://web.dev/articles/web-performance-made-easy We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today.Special Guest: Anthony Shew.

Bert Belder, Co-founder and CTO of Deno, joins the pod to talk about the state of Deno going into 2024 and what to expect going forward. Links https://twitter.com/piscisaureus https://github.com/piscisaureus https://www.linkedin.com/in/bertbelder https://www.crunchbase.com/person/bert-belder We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today.Special Guest: Bert Belder.

Aiden Bai, creator of Million.js, explains what a virtual DOM is and how it makes React apps faster. They discuss common misconceptions about the virtual DOM and compare performance characteristics with Venneljius framework. They introduce MillionJs as a tool to optimize React components and highlight its benefits. Block DOM is introduced as a mechanism to optimize DOM diffing process. They also discuss the process of switching to Million.js from React's Virtual DOM.

Medhat Dawoud, Senior Software Engineer at Miro and Google Dev Expert, discusses website performance budgeting. Topics include the importance of performance budgeting, measuring website performance through synthetic and real user monitoring, the impact of performance on user behavior and business metrics, effective tools for performance budgeting, and emerging trends in web development like INP and LOOAF.

Eddie Jaoude, GitHub star and founder of EddieHub, discusses the value of collaboration in open source, the importance of treating documentation as code, the benefits of using MDX for documentation, and the future of documentation with chatbots.

We talked with Webpack and Turbopack creator, Tobias Koppers, about the history of Webpack, the evolution of Turbopack, and more! Links https://twitter.com/wsokra https://github.com/sokra https://medium.com/@sokra https://webpack.js.org https://turbo.build/pack We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com, or tweet at us at PodRocketPod. Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form, and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today.Special Guest: Tobias Koppers.

In this episode, Tim Neutkens discusses the release of Next.js 13.4, Chris Ferdinandi explores the transitional web and the future of JavaScript frameworks, and Kent C. Dodds talks about the importance of type safety in fully typed web applications.