Codesplitters Podcast

This episode we go over some exciting new things coming to WebKit.
We also discuss our takes and experiences with AI tools such as chatGPT, Github Copilot and more.

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Today we talk about getting into open source and building communities with our guest, Lars Brink.

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Today we invited Filip Bech, CTO at Umbraco, on the show to talk about the Umbraco CMS, how to go headless, Web Components libraries and frameworks.
Filip also shares some of the thoughts behind the modernisation of the Umbraco backoffice where they are using an API-First approach going from AngularJS to Lit.

In this episode we share a few nice tools, extensions and gotchas with each other. We also ended up talking about how we like to organize our bookmarks.

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We talk about Mikkels new puppy and some other dog-talk. Once again we discuss cool new features in Safari, such as container queries and subgrid, etc.
We also talk about updates in Vue, Nuxt and Angular 14.
There is also a new story-tool in town - Histoire.

This time we talk about our passion for homemade pizza, newly released Safari features, the element, :focus-visible, optional chaining and polyfills.

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AngularJS reached end of LTS (Long Term Support) on 31st of December 2021, so we're saying goodbye to an old friend and go back in time and talk about our first encounters with AngularJS and remember all the goods and the bads. We also talk about some other legendary tools and frameworks such as jQuery, jQuery-UI and bootstrap.

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We look back at 2021 and reflect on what projects we worked on and what we learned. We also talk a bit about our plans with the podcast for 2022.

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In this episode we focus on Mikkels experiences working with Angular and Tailwind, for the first time. What was weird? What was great? What was bad? Would he use those technologies again?

With Poul being the Angular expert and Kevin being the Tailwind expert, we talk about all the pros and cons and misconceptions of both Angular and Tailwind.

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In this episode we talk about testing. Kevin wants to learn more about testing, so Poul and Mikkel try to guide him into how to get started.
We also talk about how to sell testing, why should we spend time writing tests and the different types of tests.

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Since IE will be retired on June 15th 2022, we're talking a bit about how it was back in the days when we had to support old IE versions.  What does this retirement of IE mean to us as frontend developers?  What about the UX side of the decision of dropping IE support? What problems will disappear together with the support of IE? What web features will we be able to use?

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In this episode we're really excited to talk about some of the recently released web platform features. Some of them have been here for a little while, some are very new and some are still just experimental. 2021 has been a year full of new CSS features and many more are coming. We talk about what excites us the most in frontend-land and which new features solve problems we have had in the past.

In this episode we talk about component libraries and design systems. We talk about what they are and we share our own experiences using different tools for building component libraries such as PatternLab, Fractal and Storybook. We also share our recommendation on how to get started with this and what tool to choose. And then we of course also talk about bacon 🥓

In this episode we talk about utility CSS, utility-first approaches with frameworks such as Tailwind and why these could be useful to have in your styling setup or design system.

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It's 2021 and we're still in pandemic lock-down so we talk about how we're handling working from home, exercising, being productive and the tools we use to be efficient.

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In this very first episode of Codesplitters podcast, Poul, Mikkel and Kevin start by introducing themselves and what this podcast will be about.

We talk about code-splitting; what it is, when to split and when not to split your code. We also talk about when is a good time to think about performance in the lifetime of a project. What about old jQuery code or third-party plugins. How to do code-splitting when using Webpack or when using a JS framework. What about lazy-loading JavaScript components when you need them? Can you code-split when using a CMS? ES Modules? Can you code-split CSS? What about critical CSS?

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