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PodRocket covers everything you need to know about frontend web development on a weekly basis. Join our hosts as they interview experienced developers about all the libraries, frameworks, and tech industry issues they deal with every day.
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Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 5min
Rocket Surgery: 2022 in review with Kaelan Cooter and Noel Minchow
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… to serve hot takes on 2022. Join PodRocket hosts Noel and Kaelan as they discuss the ups and downs of web development in 2022, what they hated, what they loved, and how they think the industry will change in 2023.
Links
https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-frameworks/
https://tsh.io/state-of-frontend/
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If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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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.

Dec 20, 2022 • 23min
Vue's road to Vite with Haoqun Jiang
Haoqun Jiang, a Vue.js and Vite core team member, joins us to talk about how the Vue core team decided to move from Vue CLI to Vite and what that process entailed.
Links
https://twitter.com/haoqunjiang
https://vitejs.dev
https://vuejs.org
https://github.com/vitejs/vite
https://nuxt.com
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We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card!
If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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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: Haoqun Jiang.

Dec 16, 2022 • 21min
Building a design system in Next.js with Tailwind with Tru Narla
Software Engineer at Discord and Twitch partner, Tru Narla, joins us today to talk about design systems, using Tailwind to create a positive user experience, and more.
Links
https://twitter.com/trunarla
https://www.twitch.tv/mewtru
https://www.tiktok.com/@mewtru
https://www.mewtru.com
https://tailwindcss.com
https://adamwathan.me/going-full-time-on-tailwind-css
https://stitches.dev
https://www.npmjs.com/package/class-variance-authority
https://www.npmjs.com/package/clsx
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We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card!
If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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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: Tru Narla.

Dec 15, 2022 • 25min
A complete rewrite of ESLint with Nicholas Zakas
Web development has changed a lot since the release of ESLint in 2013. Nicholas Zakas, the creator of ESLint, joins us to talk about the complete rewrite of ESLint, goals for the rewrite, and how the rewrite will leverage Rust.
Links
https://eslint.org
https://twitter.com/geteslint
https://twitter.com/humanwhocodes
https://twitter.com/slicknet
https://humanwhocodes.com
Tell us what you think of PodRocket
We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card!
If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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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: Nicholas Zakas.

Dec 14, 2022 • 31min
Deno with Ryan Dahl
We sit down with Ryan Dahl, creator of Deno and Node.js, to talk about his experience in web development, why he created Node.js, and why he sees Deno as the next step for JavaScript runtimes.
Links
https://twitter.com/deno_land
https://deno.com/deploy
https://deno.land
Tell us what you think of PodRocket
We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card!
If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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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: Ryan Dahl.

Dec 13, 2022 • 36min
Engineering at Mailchimp with CTO, Eric Muntz
CTO of Mailchimp, Eric Muntz, joins us to talk about how he started as a software engineer at Mailchimp almost thirteen years ago, the engineering team's mission statement, a few “ghost” stories, and more.
Links
https://twitter.com/muntzen
https://www.heyericmuntz.com
https://twitter.com/Mailchimp
https://mailchimp.com
https://mailchimp.com/developer/blog
https://mailchimp.com/developer/tools
Tell us what you think of PodRocket
We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card!
If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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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: Eric Muntz.

Dec 9, 2022 • 31min
What makes pnpm performant with Zoltan Kochan
We sit down with Zoltan Kochan, creator of pnpm, an efficient and fast package manager, to talk about his Vite Conf talk, “What makes pnpm performant.”
Links
https://twitter.com/ZoltanKochan
https://www.kochan.io/
https://github.com/zkochan
https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm
https://pnpm.io
Tell us what you think of PodRocket
We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card!
If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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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: Zoltan Kochan.

Dec 7, 2022 • 46min
Figma with Dylan Field
CEO and Co-Founder of Figma, Dylan Field, joins us to talk about the collaborative design tool, the importance of design, the early stages of Figma, and more.
Links
https://twitter.com/zoink
https://twitter.com/figma
https://www.figma.com
Tell us what you think of PodRocket
We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card!
If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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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: Dylan Field.

Dec 6, 2022 • 24min
Making typesafe APIs easy with tRPC with Trash Dev
Chris Bautista, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, also known as Trash Dev online and to his Twitch community, joins us to go through his recent Next.js Conf talk, “Making typesafe APIs easy with tRPC.”
Links
https://twitter.com/trashh_dev
https://m.twitch.tv/trash_dev/home
https://www.youtube.com/@trash_dev
https://discord.com/invite/WjZhvVbFHM
https://github.com/bautistaaa
https://trpc.io
Tell us what you think of PodRocket
We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card!
If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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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 Bautista.

Dec 2, 2022 • 29min
The future of Angular with Minko Gechev
In this episode, we talk to Minko Gechev, Angular Product Lead, about what is new in Angular v15 and what to expect from Angular in the future.
Links
https://twitter.com/mgechev
https://twitter.com/Angular
https://blog.mgechev.com
https://www.youtube.com/Angular
https://angular.io
https://guess-js.github.io
https://blog.tensorflow.org/2021/05/speed-up-your-sites-with-web-page-prefetching-using-ml.html
Tell us what you think of PodRocket
We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we’ll send you a $25 gift card!
If you’re interested, schedule a call with us or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com
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.


