React Round Up

React Round Up


Latest Episodes

RRU 087: The why-did-you-render Library and React Performance with Vitali Zaidman
November 12, 2019

Vitali Zaidman works for the WellDone Software consultancy. He has worked with a lot of different technologies, but currently works with React. In a recent React meetup, he talked about React performance. When someone says that React is not performant, Vi

RRU 086: Gatsby Themes with Chris Biscardi
November 05, 2019

In this episode of React Round Up the panel interviews Chris Biscardi. Chris is now working with Gatsby. He shares a bit about his background and how he got into programming. Chris explains his move from Kubernetes and Docker over to Gatsby. His overall d

RRU 085: Building Resilient Architecture with Monica Lent
October 29, 2019

Monica Lent has been interested in software from a very young age, and made her first domain name when she was 9 years old. She studied legacy languages Latin and Ancient Greek in university, but ended up keeping her college development job and going into

RRU 084: What Makes a 10x Engineer?
October 22, 2019

In today’s show, Chuck talks about the recent Twitter thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be abs

RRU 083: Reactive Programming with Storybook with Dean Radcliffe
October 15, 2019

Dean Radcliffe has been web developing since the table tag was the new hotness. His interests include his wife and two kids, music, sports, and he likes to say he helps people make whatever they can dream of. Since starting to move towards the frontend, R

RRU 082: Progressive SSR with Dinesh Pandiyan
October 08, 2019

Dinesh Pandiyan is a developer from India. He started as a backend engineer and then moved to frontend. Currently he is working for ThinkMill in Sidney, Australia. Today Dinesh and the panel are talking about devtools and progressive SSR. Dinesh got star

RRU 081: NX and Monorepos with Jeffrey Cross and Victor Savkin
October 01, 2019

Jeffrey Cross and Victor Savkin are the cofounders of NRWL. They used to work together at Google on the Angular team and started NRWL so that people could use Angular 2 well. Victor talks about NRWL’s tool NX, which came from the desire to help peop

RRU 080: Navigating React Navigation with Zain Sajjad
September 24, 2019

Zain Sajjad is a frontend developer at his company Peekaboo Guru, an app built in React. The show begins with Zain explaining why he chose to build Peekaboo Guru in React. Ultimately, he chose React for its composability and reusability. He talks about ho

RRU 079: State Machines and State Charts with Farzad Yousef Zadeh
September 17, 2019

Episode Summary Today’s guest is Farzad Yousef Zadeh, a developer from Iran with a unique path into computer programming. He started by studying astrophysics and aerospace engineering in college, then dropped out in his last semester because it was

RRU 078: The Uncanny Valley with Håkon Krogh
September 10, 2019

Episode Summary Today’s guest is Håkon Krogh, and the panel is discussing his talk on lightning fast SSR React apps given at React Amsterdam. He gives a brief overview and defines his use of the Uncanny Valley (called the Valley of Lies in hi