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Chance Strickland, a Senior Software Engineer and educator, shares why he still chooses React. They discuss React's unique mental model, its advantages over other frameworks, and the potential of extending it to the backend. The challenges of React hooks and state management approaches are also explored. Factors to consider when choosing React are highlighted, along with alternative options like Solid and Svelte.

Dov Alperin from Fly.io joins us to talk about their platform that allows you to run full-stack apps and databases globally with no-ops required. Topics include running apps close to users, the benefits of using Fly.io as a hosting platform, automating Postgres on Fly.io, running databases on Fly, and the growth of the platform.

The podcast features JavaScript experts Josh Goldberg, Colby Fayock, Paige Neidringhaus, and Noel Minchow. They tackle topics like performance, TypeScript, and the JavaScript ecosystem. They discuss choosing between classes and functional programming, enforcing new linter rules on older projects, recommended debugging methods and tools, the possibility of JavaScript having built-in types, and an examination of NPM as a package manager for JavaScript.

Tomek Sułkowski, founding engineer of StackBlitz, talks about the latest updates in StackBlitz, including CodeFlow, environment variables, and the integration with Figma for faster app development. They also discuss the limitations of StackBlitz and the addition of notable people to the team. The podcast covers the new features and updates announced in the 2023 Stack Blitz announcement, including Stack for teams and Stack for enterprise.

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot, software developer, talks about Tauri 2.0, CrabNebula, and more! They compare Tauri and Electron for native app development, discuss features and updates in Tauri 1.5, and delve into the development and evolution of the Tauri framework. They also explore the formation of Crab Nebula and its roadmap.

Ryan Carniato, creator of SolidJS, talks about metaframeworks in web development, including SolidJS and its features. They discuss the migration process, agnostic tools, opinionated frameworks, and the progress of SolidJS and future releases.

React developer Erik Rasmussen discusses getting started with SolidJS, Shawn "Swyx" Wang talks about Software 3.0 and AI development, and Brad Frost explores the concept of atomic design and its role in creating real products. They discuss the distinctions between SolidJS and React, the emergence of Software 3.0 and foundation models, and the evolution of software and design systems, including atomic design and reusability.

Theo Browne, an expert in React and React Server Components, discusses the future of React, challenges in adopting server components, benefits of componentization, and missing pieces in React like pagination and caching.

Vladimir Sheremet, a member of the Vitest and Vite teams, discusses the process of building Vitest and its benefits. Topics include the use cases and primary users of VTest, difficulties in switching testing frameworks, challenges in releasing version one, and future plans for Vitest.

Chris Coyier, founder of CSS Tricks and co-founder of CodePen, talks about modern CSS features, the impact of CSS on developer and user experience, proposing and implementing changes in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, logical properties and translation in CSS, utilizing different color spaces and models in CSS, and trends in modern CSS and the future of web development.