The Web Platform Podcast

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 many more on this week's episode.

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 some very cool hardware integrations on this week’s episode of the Web Platform Podcast.

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 JavaScript world - cooked properly, they are absolutely delicious, and you'll never want to stop eating them!

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 developers.

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 good ways to start contributing.

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 and Ben Smith give answers to all of these questions and many more!

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 where it is now.

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.

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 terms of performance and also how it compares to JSX structurally. We also discuss some of the upcoming proposals for standardising HTML template instantiation.

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.

Ionic has focused on Angular for many years, but the recent move to Web Components has opened up new and exciting framework agnostic possibilities. Leon, Danny and Justin talk to Mike Hartington from Ionic about this and a new project called Capacitor a cross-platform API for building desktop, mobile and progressive-web apps.

In the past few years React has become a mainstay in the front end development community and React 16 has more to offer than ever. This week our hosts chat with Andrew Clark of the React core team about some of React’s history as well as some of the new exciting things in React 16 and beyond.

Infrastructure is hard, that is one of the big reasons "the cloud" has become such a popular option, but it can still be difficult. As the website says: "WeDeploy helps you build from simple to complex applications. We give you predefined services that can speed up your development process." Our hosts welcome back Zeno Rocha and discuss the platform, what it can do and how it can improve your process.

Modern web development has a lot of cool stuff, but that cool stuff can come at a cost. Getting a development environment set up can be a task even for folks that know what they are doing. Enter StackBlitz, a way to get up and running with Angular, Ionic or React (with others on the way). This week our hosts talk to Eric Simons about the benefits of such a platform as well as some of the challenges with building it.

This week we are joined by Patrick Kettner to find out what's new with Microsoft Edge. We ask about Web Component support, speak about the PWA story for Edge and learn a lot about how browsers decide which specifications to implement next. Also, find out what the Edge team are doing to improve DevTools and the development experience.

You've seen the ads, you've heard the name, now let's take a dive into all things Firefox and Firefox Quantum. Our hosts talk with Matthew Claypotch about where Firefox is and where it is going in the future. Web Components, Progressive Web apps and performance improvements are only some of the things you can expect to hear about this week on the Web Platform Podcast.

This week Justin, Danny, and Leon talk about what they think is going to be important for the web in 2018. We talk about AI and an interesting experiment Danny has got involved with along with Leon’s excitement for customized built-in elements an unadopted part of the Custom Elements spec. PWA’s is a big topic where we talk about what this means for native app-store apps and we finish by sharing what we hope for in 2018.

Episode 150, we made it! This week on The Web Platform Podcast our hosts Justin Ribeiro, Amal Hussein and Leon Revill chat with Jeff Posnick and Matt Gaunt about WorkBox. Service workers are becoming more and more important to the web in the world of progressive web apps and WorkBox makes it easy. So tune in and learn how you can up your service worker game and how WorkBox can help.

This week Michael Prentice and Stephen Fluin join Danny Blue and Amal Hussein to chat about the current state of Angular. They go over the path to get to the Angular as it is now as well as the new features available in the latest version (5.1.1 as of this recording). Compilers, template, and Observables are discussed as well as build tools & schematics. Come listen about the Angular Platform on the Web Platform!

Chad Hart joins us for this episode to discuss what's happening in the world of WebRTC. We start with an introduction to the technology, what it can do and who is using it right now. We then discuss how WebRTC handles low-grade devices and connections and some parts of the technology which you may not have known about. WebRTC is driving many of the top real-time comms apps, this episode is a great overview of the technology with many useful resources and will surely get you excited about its many practical applications.

Henry Zhu (@left_pad), a maintainer for Babel, sits down to discuss the ins and outs of what's happening with the worlds most used JavaScript compiler. Henry takes us through what Babel does, how Babel works and describes some of its many features, some you may not have known existed. Henry also explains the TC39 staging process and how that applies to Babel and discusses the risks of using stage 0-1 features in production.

Software engineer, author, and Google Developer Expert Allen Firstenberg (@afirstenberg) visits the show to discuss what exactly identity for a user is. From pitfalls with our current thinking in identifying users to the latest technology in helping users sign in across multiple devices and platforms.

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Hosts Amal, Danny, Leon, and Justin kick of the start of the holiday season by taking a moment to reflect on what they're thankful for when it comes to the web. From platform APIs like Service Worker, to the latest ECMAScript features like arrow functions, to a healthy warning of the impending FCC vote on net neutrality, this episode touches on a wide set of varied topics that every developer just might enjoy.

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Amahdy AbdelAziz from Vaadin joins us to share stories of where Vaadin got its name and awesome logo! We also talk about some decisions Vaadin made when creating its latest set of components including why they chose Web Components and Polymer.

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This week our panel talks with Ken Wheeler all about ReasonML. What is it? Why does it exist? Why should you care? Taking a systems language like OCaml and using it as a base for writing web applications might sound intimidating but Ken assuages our fears and discusses the benefits of the language and his experience with it.

• Angular 5 and Angular-cli 1.5 released
• React 16.1.0-beta released
• Typescript 2.6 released
• Node 9 released Node 8 becomes LTS
• Super Mario Odyssey is out and it’s awesome

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This week Mark Erikson a Redux maintainer joins us to talk about Redux and its Ecosystem. Discover what Redux is, where it came from, who should use it, answers to common questions and so much more.

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Rachel Nabors joins us to chat all about the Web Animations API. Learn what benefits this API provides developers and when to use the Web Animations API instead of CSS or third-party JavaScript libraries. Find out how Rachel still delivers great web experiences to platforms which don’t yet support the API and much more.

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This week Nic Raboy and Matt Groves talk to us about the history and future of the popular Open Source Couchbase project. Learn about some of the great features the noSQL database has to offer and how you can get started with Couchbase today.

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This week Justin Willis and Adam Bradley join us to talk about Stencil a new tool for building Web Components. We talk about how Stencil came about and what problems it solves and we get into how Stencil works its magic to provide features such as pre-rendering. 

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This week is a special episode! Recorded face-to-face at GDD Europe Amal Hussein interviews Wendy Ginsberg about life working on Polymer and what’s next for the project.

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This week the crew is joined by Lars Knudsen (@denladeside) and Kenneth Christiansen (@kennethrohde) to talk about the recent Polymer Summit and all of the awesome stuff revealed there. Are web components really ready? Who is using web components? Answers to these questions and more on this week’s episode of the Web Platform Podcast.

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This week Andrea Giammarchi joins us to talk about his latest project hyperHTML! A lightweight Virtual DOM alternative. Andrea talks us through what the project is all about and what he discovered about template literals to make it happen. We talk about how hyperHTML compares to Virtual DOM implementations and the similarities between hyperHTML and the newly announced lit-html.

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This week Paul Kinlan the lead for Chrome developer relations talks to us about Modern Web APIs including Web Share and Shape Detection! Paul talks us through the origin trials process which allows new APIs such as these to get into developers hands early, allowing platform developers to get all important feedback. We then get stuck into what Web Share is and how it works and chat about the possibilities of the Shape Detection API.

Justin Willis from Ionic joins us this week to talk about hybrid app development with Ionic and some amazing work they have been doing with Web Components. Justin gives us an overview of the Ionic project, its background and how it makes building hybrid apps super easy. We then move on to talk about why Ionic have chosen to rebuild their components as Web Components and the benefits they are seeing from making this move.

This week we talk about the exciting JavaScript framework Vue.js! Chad Campbell the author of the training course "Vue.js: Getting Started" educates us on the benefits of Vue.js which includes simplicity and performance. We talk about the tooling story for Vue, comparing it to other frameworks such as Angular and learn about Vue’s powerful plugin system which allows developers to add core functionality as it’s needed.

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Danny, Justin & Amal get together with Kenneth Christiansen to talk about this year’s Google I/O. With everyone having attended I/O the show is packed full of great content with discussions on AI, Shape detection, PWAs, Polymer, Kotlin and so much more!

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This week on The Web Platform Podcast your hosts ask the question “Why aren’t Web Workers more widely adopted”? Your hosts talk about what problems can be solved by Web Workers providing some interesting use cases and talk about their own experiences in past projects.

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In this episode, Leon and Justin sit down with Jan Miksovsky and Rob Bearman of of the recently released Elix Project. Elix is a community-driven collection of high-quality web components for common user interface patterns such as lists, menus, dialogs, carousels, and so on. The modular nature of web components let you easily incorporate them into your web apps, and their standard definition ensures good results across all mainstream browsers.

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Nolan Lawson a PM at Microsoft Edge joins us today to talk about PouchDB a popular open source project he’s a maintainer of. PouchDB is an open-source JavaScript database inspired by Apache CouchDB that is designed to run well within the browser. In this episode we get into what PouchDB is good at and what type of projects would benefit from using PouchDB for their persistence layer (turns out, many!). PouchDB is framework agnostic but plays very well with many popular frameworks and libraries. Nolan gets into the performance of PouchDB and also what storage mechanisms it supports which include IndexedDB, WebSQL, LevelDB and many more. The episode takes a very unexpected turn leaving Justin, Danny and Leon wrapping up with some of their own PouchDB experiences.

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Tooling is an ever important topic in the world of web development. In this episode, Danny explains to Justin and Leon the upcoming features in Angular CLI, a tool that makes it easy to create an application that already works, right out of the box.

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WebComponents.org have long been a great resource for learning and understanding web components. Recently, Google along with several other developers have worked hard to make the site a place not only to consume information on web components, but to share your own components as well consume others.

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Justin Searls chats with us on testing Asynchronous JavaScript as well as best practices for Continuous Integration, Unit testing vs. Integration testing, and tools we can use to help us understand how to test code.

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Danny, Erik, & Mark discuss their experiences and current challenges in testing code across their applications and services.

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