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One of the biggest performance issues in an app stems from using third-party libraries, so Houssein Djirdeh, Senior Software Engineer at Google, talks about how the Chrome Aurora team is developing a package to efficiently load third-party libraries into Next.js apps. Links https://twitter.com/hdjirdeh https://houssein.me https://www.linkedin.com/in/housseindjirdeh https://github.com/housseindjirdeh https://developer.chrome.com/authors/housseindjirdeh 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: Houssein Djirdeh.

With the latest release and rebrand of Angular 17, Minko Gechev, Angular Engineering Product and DevRel Lead, returns to talk about why Angular rebranded, the new features, and more. Links https://twitter.com/mgechev https://github.com/mgechev https://blog.mgechev.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgechev https://bsky.app/profile/mgeche https://mstdn.social/@mgechev 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: Minko Gechev.

Kent C. Dodds, a web development expert, explains why he prefers Remix over Next.js, highlighting its productivity and effectiveness. The podcast covers topics such as testing libraries, transferable knowledge, web platform APIs, advantages of Remix, challenges of abstractions, and the dichotomy of stewardship in open source frameworks. They also discuss React, Next.js, Vercel, and collaboration within the React team.

We sit down with Dominik Dorfmeister, TanStack Query maintainer, to talk about the new updates in version 5, including benefits and enhancements in React Query, community feedback and roadmap changes, optimizing memory usage and data fetching in infinite queries, setting stale time on queries for memory optimization, and the future focus of TanStack Query v5.

Tim Neutkens, Next.js lead at Vercel, talks about the Next.js App Router and new features from the latest release. They discuss core values and design principles, the power of server components in React and Next.js, collaboration between Chrome and Next.js teams, and the impact of lazy loading images. Excitement about Next.js in the ecosystem and potential integrations with hooks and data fetching are also mentioned.

Tejas interviews Amanda Martin, Developer Advocate at Wix, who talks about supporting engineering teams, advocating for open source, and embracing your developer journey. They also discuss the approachability of Wix as a low code tool, the role of developer advocacy in engaging the community, and the challenges of gathering feedback from Discord users.

Kathleen McMahon, engineer, designer, and speaker, discusses digital gardening. She explains the distinction from traditional blogging, the use of Astro and MDX for easy editing and publishing, and the advantages of migrating from Gatsby to Astro for a simplified development experience. The benefits of content collections and dynamic rendering in Astro are also explored.

Amy Dutton, lead maintainer at Redwood.js and web development educator, talks about design-driven development, the value of collaboration, and the benefits it brings, such as easy iteration and customer feedback. They discuss Storybook's role in enabling design-driven development by documenting design iterations and components, showcasing interactive testing capabilities, and the new component Story format. They also mention the evolution of Storybook, including living documentation, TypeScript integration, unit testing, and visual regression testing.

React's future, metaframeworks, and Tauri are discussed in this podcast. Theo Browne shares insights on the challenges of adopting the new React model. The difficulties of convincing teams to use server components and React's influence are also explored. Additionally, Tauri 2.0 is compared to Electron and Capacitor, highlighting its flexibility in databases and performance.

David Sancho, Software Engineer at ahrefs, discusses Reason, a language for native React server-side rendering. He explores the relationship between Reason, Ocamo, and the generated code, the options for returning content to the browser, and the benefits of using Reason and functional programming.