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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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May 28, 2021 • 23min
Founder Friday: Johan Eliasson of Nhost
Johan Eliasson joins us to talk about Nhost, an open-source, Backend-as-a-service with a GraphQL API. How does Nhost compare to Firebase and Supabase? Learn more in this episode.
Links
https://nhost.io
https://twitter.com/nhostio
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/firebase
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/9
https://hasura.io
Careers at Nhost
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@PodRocket
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: Johan Eliasson.

May 25, 2021 • 40min
The middle-end and subtweeting with Laurie Barth
In this episode, Brian interviews Laurie Barth, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, about what it means to be a middle-end developer, job titles, and Web Dev Twitter.
Links
https://twitter.com/laurieontech
https://laurieontech.com
https://egghead.io/q/resources-by-laurie-barth
https://jobs.netflix.com/culture
https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod/status/1392536541550071810
https://twitter.com/laurieontech/status/1392179737863331846
Contact us
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us
@PodRocketpod
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: Laurie Barth.

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May 18, 2021 • 40min
GraphQL 101 with Anthony Campolo
We sit down with Anthony Campolo to talk about the history, common misconceptions, and increased popularity of GraphQL.
Links
https://twitter.com/ajcwebdev
https://dev.to/ajcwebdev
https://github.com/ajcwebdev
https://stepzen.com
https://redwoodjs.com
https://fsjam.org
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/redwoodjs
https://graphql.org
https://relay.dev
https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/how-to/querying-data/running-queries-with-graphiql
https://rickandmortyapi.com/graphql
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/8
https://www.prisma.io
https://the-guild.dev
https://github.com/contrawork/graphql-helix
https://github.com/maticzav/graphql-shield
https://www.graphql-mesh.com
https://www.graphqlweekly.com
https://twitter.com/UriGoldshtein
https://twitter.com/sgrove
Contact us
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@PodRocketpod
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 Campolo.

May 11, 2021 • 32min
Open source at Facebook with Dmitry Vinnik
Facebook Open Source now has over 600 publicly available projects in its portfolio including some well-known projects like React, React Native, PyTorch, Docusaurus, GraphQL, Jest, and more.
Listen to this episode of PodRocket to hear Dmitry Vinnick, a Developer Advocate at Facebook Open Source, talk about what it means to be open source at Facebook, how to manage such a large portfolio, and what it has been like to engage with a community remotely.
Links
https://twitter.com/DmitryVinnik
https://dvinnik.dev
https://opensource.facebook.com
https://github.com/dmitryvinn
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/open_source
https://opensource.facebook.com/projects
https://pytorch.org
https://twitter.com/ajcwebdev
https://fsjam.org/episodes/episode-26-multilingual-documentation-with-claire-froelich
https://jestjs.io
https://docusaurus.io
https://twitter.com/joelmarcey
https://mlh.io
https://opensource.facebook.com/code-of-conduct
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzIwronG0sE7cCot-0yCbnuR6sAe7PIYX
https://graphql.org/foundation
https://prestodb.io
https://www.edx.org
https://opensource.guide
https://thediffpodcast.com
Contact us
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us
@PodRocketpod
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: Dmitry Vinnik.

May 4, 2021 • 46min
Redux is alive and well with Mark Erikson
What is modern Redux? What is it with the obsession of declaring Redux dead? In this episode, Ben and Brian interview Mark Erikson to talk about all things Redux.
Links
https://twitter.com/acemarke
https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com
https://redux.js.org
https://redux-toolkit.js.org
https://immerjs.github.io/immer
https://react-redux.js.org/api/hooks
https://react-redux.js.org/api/connect
https://rtk-query-docs.netlify.app
https://react-community-tools-practices-cheatsheet.netlify.app
https://overreacted.io/a-complete-guide-to-useeffect
https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-mostly-complete-guide-to-react-rendering-behavior
https://esbuild.github.io
https://www.learnwithjason.dev/lets-learn-esbuild
https://twitter.com/phry
https://twitter.com/de_stroy
https://twitter.com/threepointone
https://twitter.com/sarah_edo
Contact us
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@PodRocketpod
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: Mark Erikson.

Apr 30, 2021 • 31min
Founder Friday: Madeleine Reese of Allma
Ben interviews Madeleine Reese, Founder and CEO of Allma. Allma is building next-generation alerting, incident response, and service cataloging natively in Slack. Their focus is on helping the entire organization to resolve incidents faster and be able to communicate more effectively during an incident.
Links
https://allma.io
https://twitter.com/madsgo
https://allma.io/bsb
https://allma.io/incidentally
https://www.atlassian.com/software/opsgenie
https://www.pagerduty.com
https://graphcms.com
https://angel.co/company/allma-1
Contact us
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us
@PodRocketpod
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: Madeleine Reese.

Apr 27, 2021 • 28min
Firebase, development, and design in 2021 with David East
In this episode, Ben and Kate talk to David East, Developer Relations Engineer at Firebase. They talk about the three tiers of the Firebase product -- Build, Release & Monitor, and Engage. They also get into design vs. development and what that means for web developers in 2021.
Links
https://firebase.google.com/
https://twitter.com/Firebase
https://twitter.com/_davideast
https://davidea.st/
https://www.sketch.com/
https://www.framer.com/motion/
https://tailwindcss.com/
https://www.figma.com/
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/different-flavors-of-frontend
https://css-tricks.com/the-great-divide
Contact us
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@LogRocket
brian@logrocket.com
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: David East.

Apr 20, 2021 • 20min
What you need to know about Wasp with Martin Šošić
Ben interviews Martin Šošić about Wasp, an open-source, declarative DSL for devs that he built with his twin brother, Matija. Learn more about how Wasp works and why it has been getting attention on Product Hunt and Hacker News.
Links
https://wasp-lang.dev/
https://twitter.com/wasplang
https://discord.gg/rzdnErX
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26091956
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wasp-lang-alpha
Contact us
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@LogRocket
brian@logrocket.com
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: Martin Šošić.

Apr 13, 2021 • 30min
spACE jam
Brian interviews Adewale Abati, also known as Ace, a frontend engineer and developer advocate at Flutterwave. Ace is known for sharing his developer experiences through social media, technical writing, public speaking, and his YouTube channel. He also maintains Made in Nigeria -- a curation of awesome open source tools and projects built by Nigerian developers.
Links
https://www.acekyd.com
http://youtube.com/acekyd
https://twitter.com/ace_kyd
https://flutterwave.com
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/african-payments-company-flutterwave-raises-170m-now-valued-at-over-1b
https://chakra-ui.com
https://tenseijs.com
https://twitter.com/codebeast
http://c0depanda.com
https://twitter.com/moyheen
https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper
https://www.madeinnigeria.dev
https://github.com/acekyd/made-in-nigeria
Contact us
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us
@LogRocket
brian@logrocket.com
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: Adewale Abati.

Apr 6, 2021 • 22min
Typesense with Jason Bosco
Ben interviews Jason Bosco, cofounder of Typesense, an open source search engine that’s optimized for both performance and ease of use. They talk about how Typesense compares to Algolia and Elasticsearch, how to get started using Typesense, and how you can get involved.
Links
https://typesense.org/
https://github.com/typesense
https://twitter.com/jasonbosco
https://twitter.com/Typesense
https://medium.com/@ethannam/understanding-the-levenshtein-distance-equation-for-beginners-c4285a5604f0
https://medium.com/basecs/trying-to-understand-tries-3ec6bede0014
http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
https://typesense.org/typesense-vs-algolia-vs-elasticsearch-vs-meilisearch
Contact us
https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us
@LogRocket
brian@logrocket.com
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: Jason Bosco.


