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The Web Platform Podcast
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A weekly show covering the latest in browser features, standards, and the tools developers use to build for the Web of today and beyond. Each week, hosts Danny, Amal, Leon, and Justin are joined by a special guest to discuss the latest developments and features that you may just want to use in your next project.
Episodes
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207: Qwik
Danny takes to the virtual road and conducts and investigative report while Erik and Justin contemplate the nature of lantern hanging in the post-interview follow-up. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/207-qwik Follow The Web Platform…
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206: Astro
In this investigative report, Erik interview Fred K. Schott, CEO of Astro Inc and founder of the Astro, an all-in-one web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/206-astro Follow The Web...
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205: The Sad State of Job Interviews
It's not you it's me. Danny, Erik, and Justin discuss the problem with web dev interviews, the questions, the horror stories, and why they root for everyone who walks into their office looking for a job. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more:...
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204: The Good, The Bad, The Design Systems
The Man with No Name Returns! Well, not so much. For Erik, Danny, and Justin, the discussion turns to the love and hate relationship of design systems. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/204-the-good-the-bad-the-design-systems Follow The…
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203: Learning Losses For the Web Platform
Do developers still learn the foundational aspects of the Web Platform? Justin and Erik dates themselves and argue about what them there whippersnappers are learning about building on the web platform today. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more:...
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202: Meditations on Microfrontends
Danny returns from an meditating in the woods and of a discussion around microfrontends emerges. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/202-meditations-on-microfrontends Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates...
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201: Evolution of Modern JavaScript live @ OpenJS World 2020
To say the way we use and write JavaScript has evolved since the launch of ES2015 is an understatement. Atomics, TypedArrays, globalThis, and function generators are just a few ways JavaScript has grown up to meet the needs of a growing web platform. But it's not just language that has evolved,...
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200: Pika and Snowpack
Episode 200 marks the return of Amal Hussein back to the panel! Amal, Danny, and Erik chat with Fred K. Schott about Pika, Snowpack, and the future of web development and tooling. Snowpack is an innovative approach to creating fast dev environments without crazy reloading times and complications....
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199: Deno
Deno is a secure runtime for JavaScript & TypeScript created by the creator of Node.js (Ryan Dahl). David Else, software developer at Else Web Development, has been working with the project for a while aND talks with Danny and Erik about the latest Deno release. Visit the website for This Week in...
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197: Modern HTML
Dave Rupert, podcaster and web developer, talks with us about modern HTML practices. In a world full of JavaScript where does HTML & CSS fit in? What are the roles of Web Components and web standards? Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more:...
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196: Lean Web Dev
It is a "wild web" out there and with all the complicated tooling and frameworks for web developers building web applications can be complex and obtuse. Chris Ferdinandi talks about simplifying our developer experience while focusing on the end user. Chris is a teacher, author, and practical web...
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195: Platforms and Priorities
Brian Kardell, Developer Relations at Igalia, talks us through specs and features in standards and why those get prioritized or deprioritized. What is the 'special sauce' that goes into getting a feature pushed into standards and then implemented across browsers? What can developers do to get a...
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194: Off the Main Thread
For a lot of software developers running code in separate threads is a common tool to reach for. On the web they are not nearly as widely used but can be just as powerful. Join us this week as Surma talks us through just how useful workers can be and some of the challenges they can help…
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193: Modern Web Toolchains
What is a web developer toolchain? It seems that, like most web development questions, it depends on many factors. There are build tools, testing, CI, and much more. Danny and Erik go through some of their current tools they use for development and explain how these have evolved over time. Visit...
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192: Ionic and React are Friends
In 2019, when developers think of Ionic and particularly the Ionic Framework they might think of Angular and Stencil. What about that VDOM thing called React? That's on the other side of web developers minds...right? Actually…..it's everywhere and now it's part of Ionic. Mike Hartington...
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191: The State of Webcomponents
Web component have been a favorite topic here on the Web Platform Podcast for a while now. After years of waiting Web components finally seem like they are ready for prime time. Browser support is great and only getting better and more and more frameworks have an excellent inter-op story. Join us...
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190: All The Angular
As a treat for the start of your summer Angular is has a new major release. Angular version 8 brings some exciting features to both the core libraries as well as the Angular CLI. Stephen Fluin joins us this week to talk all about what is new in Angular version 8 as well as a tiny bit about what…
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189: Developing with VSCode
VSCode has become incredibly popular, very quickly. We're joined this week by Ahmad Awais, the creator of vscode.pro and the insanely popular VSCode theme Shades of Purple and learn about the VSCode extension ecosystem and how beneficial it can be to have your editor written with the technologies...
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188: You Don't Know JS?
Kyle Simpson, the author of the extremely popular "You Don't Know JS?" book series has been a JavaScript developer for 20 years which is a long time considering JavaScript is only 24. Join us this week and witness Kyles obvious passion for the language, hear about his past experiences (like...
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187: An update on WebRTC
Get an update on everything that is happening in the wonderful world of WebRTC. WebRTC powers a staggering number of applications most of us use every day and has some exciting use cases you probably never even thought of. As a developer WebRTC is certainly one of those technologies you should be...
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186: How we got into web development
We all got here somehow. This week Danny Blue and Leon Revill share how they got into web development. The web is a big place so how did those who do this as a career end up here? Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more:...
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185: Houdini
Houdini is a set of specs and APIs which expose low-level CSS capabilities allowing developers to break the mould and capitalize on performance gains. Surma who is a web advocate at Google joins us this week to enlighten us on the use-cases and capabilities of these APIs and how they are going to...
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184: MDN Web Docs
Finding documentation about the web and its various platform APIs used to be a fragmented experienced across a wide range of sites with not quite the right information. When all hope seemed lost, Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs became the clearinghouse for not only Mozilla related docs…
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183: Web Standards, DevTools, and Browser Preview for Visual Studio Code
Since Visual Studio Code burst onto the code editor scene, the steady improvements have made a number of web-related development tasks easier to handle. In this episode, we speak with web standards contributor and PM on the Visual Studio Code Kenneth Auchenberg (@auchenberg) on a wide range of...
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182: Calibre and Web Performance Monitoring
With an ever-expanding array of devices, connectivity, and growing usage in new markets, the need for web performance has never been stronger. Beyond single testing for a given metric, how do you achieve and monitor your progress? To help us learn more about performance, Ben Schwarz…
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181: Learning Design
For many developers, design can be a mystifying topic. For many designers, writing code isn't their daily task. In this episode designer and developer Erik Kennedy walks through common approaches and talks about who designers and developers can better work together to bring forth happiness…
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180: web.dev
web.dev is a new developer resource released at Chrome Dev Summit last year to help developers with topics such as fast load times, network resilience, SEO and more. With integrated lighthouse, the automated performance auditing tool, it can analyse your sites and provide deep insight into what…
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179: Developing For Voice
Voice interfaces are more common than ever and devices like the Google Home and Amazon's Echo are becoming deeply ingrained in our day-to-day lives. This week we talk about developing for voice both for the web and beyond. We discuss how developing voice-based applications differs from…
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178: Chrome Dev Summit Recap
This week we cover many of the great things announced at Chrome Dev Summit 2018. We talk about some of the exciting new things coming to the web, the new resource for web developers (web.dev) how the Squoosh app brings together all of the latest modern best practices including web workers, web...
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177: Community Outreach
Tyler McGinnis joins us this week to talk about the importance of community outreach, how he got into teaching and what keeps him going. We talk about how publishing content like blog posts and other training material can generate exciting opportunities and learn how Tyler makes a living doing…
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176: VisBug
Feeling empowered to design on the web can be a challenge. With the recently demoed Project VisBug by Adam Argyle (@argyleink) at Chrome Dev Summit, that's changing. VisBug allows any website to become an artboard to be shaped, allowing designers and developers alike a new set of freedom to find...
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175: Gatsby
Gatsby brings together React, Webpack and modern JavaScript in a way that makes a performant experience the default experience. In this weeks episode join us with Jason Lengstorf and learn how Gatsby can do this and some of the other great products that Gatsby are working on. Visit the website…
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174: Brave Browser
Brave is a modern browser that puts the user first. This week learn all about Brave, find out why it's faster than Chrome and Safari and how it uses blockchain technology to pay users for their attention and content creators for their work. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources &…
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173: Nuxt.js
Nuxt.js is a framework for creating Vue.js applications, you can choose between Universal, Static Generated or Single Page application. Vue.js has exploded in popularity and along with it, some excellent tools have been created. This week on the Web Platform podcast our hosts chat with Sébastien...
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172: Behind the scenes of Babel 7
Babel, a build tool that has enabled web developers to build tomorrows JavaScript today, has finally hit it's version 7 release. It's been a long 3 years and Henry Zhu (@left_pad) along with the Babel core team have a lot to share with us. In this episode, Henry discusses the process of building...
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171: CSS In-Depth
CSS can seem like magic sometimes, but it really isn't! Join us with Aimee Knight and take an in-depth look at how the browser actually uses CSS. We talk about performance, hardware acceleration, debugging CSS issues, common pitfalls and all the things to make working with CSS easier. Visit the...
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170: Performance Testing Tools
This week learn why performance testing is so important, how to sell it to the business and which are Justin's favourite tools for getting the job done. Performance testing is a big topic but it's never been easier to get started thanks to simple and easy to use tools. Justin has considerable...
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169: Extending the DOM with Web Components
This week we talk about Customized Built-in Elements, part of the Custom Elements specification which hasn't had as much attention as other parts of the Web Component specs. Customized Built-in Elements allow developers to extend native DOM elements and add additional functionality. In this…
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168: JavaScript & SEO
This week we discuss the important topic of SEO and how JavaScript impacts what search bots are able to crawl on your sites. Learn what developers can do to improve SEO for their sites which rely on JavaScript along with some tips and tricks from SEO expert Tomasz Rudzki. Visit the website for…
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167: PWAs with Alex Russell
Alex Russell has been around, he has seen some things, and now he wants to share it with us! Come join our hosts as we dive into Alex's background and learn how he came to hold some of his views on many things. Browsers, JavaScript and web frameworks, he has insight into all of these things and...
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166: Samsung Internet
This week our panel chats with Ada Rose Cannon (@lady_ada_king) all about Samsung Internet. Haven't heard of Samsung Internet? You may not be alone but that doesn't mean there aren't some very cool things happening. Learn more about how Samsung is contributing back to the community as well as…
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165: JS Unit Testing Tools & Best Practices
Join Danny, Leon, and Amal for a discussion on unit testing modern web applications. Amal has recently taught a pilot testing workshop in Boston with Gleb from Cypress who was on the show last week. She is excited to evangelize the importance of unit testing. Unit tests are the vegetables of the...
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164: Cypress.io
Guests Brian Mann and Gleb Bahmutov join our hosts to discuss Cypress, and open source test runner that's built for the modern web. With fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser, the show discusses how cypress utilizes the platform and the ease of use for end…
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163: RxJS
This week on the Web Platform Podcast our panel talks with Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) and Ben Lesh (@BenLesh) about RxJS. We find out just what these fancy sounding Observables are and how they help solve problems. Our panel and guests also discuss the importance of documentation in open source and…
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162: WebAssembly
This week on the Web Platform Podcast our panel chats about WebAssembly and the future of the web. What exactly is WebAssembly? Is it a replacement for JavaScript? Do I need to learn C++ if I want to use it? Sooooo many questions about this very cool technology. Come listen to Thomas Nattestad…
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161: UNPKG
This week on the Web Platform Podcast Amal, Danny & Justin talk with Michael Jackson about his project UNPKG and how it can help make front-end development easier. Our panel also chats about the current state of front-end tooling including the JavaScript module spec and how things have led up to...
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160: NG-CONF 2018
Ng-conf has happened! There were a bunch of excellent talks and and excellent people. Jeff Whelpley was one of them! Jeff helps us dive into what is coming in Angular. Angular 6, the new Angular CLI, RxJs 6 and more! There is a ton to unpack in this week's episode. Visit the website for This Week...
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159: lit-html - HTML Templates via JavaScript Template Literals
This week we chat with lit-html creator Justin Fagnani. Lit-html is a framework agnostic library that uses new JavaScript features to efficiently render HTML templates. In this episode, you'll learn what lit-html is in detail and why it was created. We compare the lit-html approach to VDOM in…
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158: A Developer's Guide into the World of Web Standards
The world of web standards can be complicated and confusing, Jory Burson joins us to help make things clearer! We discuss the different standards organisations, why standards are important and why it's good for developers to get involved. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more:...
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A weekly show covering the latest in browser features, standards, and the tools developers use to build for the Web of today and beyond. Each week, hosts Danny, Amal, Leon, and Justin are joined by a special guest to discuss the latest developments and features that you may just want to use in your next project.
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