Podcasts by JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development
Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. Panelists include Jerod Santo, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Kevin Ball, Amelia Wattenberger, Nick Nisi, Divya Sasidharan, Mikeal Rogers, Chris Hiller, and Amal Hussein. Topics discussed include the web platform (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, etc), front-end frameworks (React, Solid, Svelte, Vue, Angular, etc), JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), web animation, SVG, robotics, IoT, and much more. If JavaScript and/or the web touch your life, this show’s for you. Some people search for JSParty and can’t find the show, so now the string JSParty is in our description too.
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From WebGL to WebGPU from 2023-12-07T17:40
Gregg Tavares (author of WebGL/WebGPU Fundamentals) joins Jerod&Amal to give us a tour of these low-level technologies that are pushing the web forward into the world of video games, machine learni...
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Art of the state machine from 2023-11-30T21:00
Amal, Nick&special guest Laura Kalbeg geek out over the remarkable growth and evolution of the XState project and its team in recent years. Laura also tells everyone about Stately.ai, a SaaS platfo...
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What's new in CSS land from 2023-11-24T18:30
Una Kravets, web platform ambassador&lead of the Google Chrome UI Developer Relations Team, joins Amal&Nick to take them CSS to school as they start this podcast in CSS kindergarten and end it with...
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Building something new from 2023-11-16T17:45
Amal&Nick are joined by Saron Yitbarek (developer, podcaster, community leader&serial entrepreneur) to catch up and discuss her latest project: Not A Designer We discuss all the ins&outs of tech en...
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Best of the fest! Volume 2 from 2023-11-10T18:40
JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate great moments from the last 100 episodes! You’ll hear from 14 of our favorite humans (and 1 horse) across 11 episodes. Here’s to our first 300 episodes an...
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Helping people enter, stay&thrive in tech from 2023-11-03T21:15
Valerie Phoenix from Tech By Choice joins Amal&Kball to tell them all about her non-profit that’s passionate about helping people interested in technology, no matter their experience level.
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I wanna React Jam it with you from 2023-10-26T13:30
The 2nd ever React Jam is on and poppin’, so Jerod&Nick invited the previous winners to the pod to tell us all about the 10 day online game jam. Turns out React and video games are like peanut butt...
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Use Effect (not useEffect) from 2023-10-19T18:45
Prisma founder Johannes Schickling has been using the Effect library for the last couple years. Today he joins Jerod&Nick to tell us all about this very interesting tool for building robust apps in...
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Party on PartyKit from 2023-10-12T21:45
With a name like PartyKit, you know we just had to get its founder and CEO Sunil Pai on the show! PartyKit is an open source tool that simplifies creating collaborative, multiplayer applications. J...
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Reflecting on Bun's big launch from 2023-10-05T21:00
Fresh off Bun’s big 1.0 launch, Jarred Sumner goes one-on-one with Jerod to discuss the all-in-one JavaScript runtime that’s captured the interest of many. We get into it all: what problem he’s sol...
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Reports of Node's death are greatly exaggerated from 2023-09-28T21:00
Amal, KBall&Chris convene a “semi-emergency” pod to discuss the recent (deserved) hype over Bun and what it all means for Node’s community, maintainers&users. They’re joined by Node Technical Steer...
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Web dev security school from 2023-09-21T20:30
This week, we’re joined by Ron Perris, a Security Engineer at Reddit and software security enthusiast. Together, we dive into best practices and common pitfalls, covering topics from dangerous URLs...
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Type War (what is it good for?) from 2023-09-14T17:00
Love it or hate it, TypeScript is here to stay for the foreseeable future. But, what happens when widely adopted packages go completely Type free or remove TypeScript in favor of JS with type anno...
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A view to a transitions API from 2023-09-07T18:15
Jerod&the gang discuss the news (Astro 3.0, Vercel + Astro, Python in Excel) then play eight crazy rounds of HeadLIES! Headline or headLIE? You decide…
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Modernizing packages to ESM from 2023-09-01T18:20
Mark Erikson (web dev professor/historian, OSS Maintainer&engineer at Replay) joins us to talk about the shift from CommonJS to ESM. We discuss the history of module patterns in JS and the grueling...
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Ten years of TypeScript bliss from 2023-08-24T21:00
Nick celebrates a decade of writing everyone’s favorite language with guest Josh Goldberg, who contributes to TypeScript, maintains typescript-eslint, and is an all-around great person! Jerod is al...
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Refined thinking from 2023-08-17T20:45
Jim (Hyphen) Nielsen joins Jerod&Nick for a fun conversation about language-level toll roads, when (and how) to quit, the stratification of social networking&the state of the world in publishing yo...
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Take me to Val Town from 2023-08-10T18:45
Val Town is a shiny, new social programming environment to write, run, deploy and share code. Steve Krouse –Val Town creator– joins Jerod&Amal to tell us all about it.
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An intimate conversation about careers from 2023-08-03T15:20
KBall and Amal go deep on careers. They share their career journeys, talk through learnings and mishaps that happened along the way, and break down key factors to understand about big role transiti...
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Frontend Feud: CSS Pod vs Whiskey Web and Whatnot from 2023-07-28T15:15
Una&Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers Chuck&Robbie from Whiskey Web and Whatnot. Let’s get it on!
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This is going to be Lit 🔥 from 2023-07-20T16:30
Justin Fagnani joins us this week to talk about Lit, a library that helps you build web components. With 17% of pageviews in Chrome registering use of web components, Lit has gained widespread adop...
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Fundamentals all the way down from 2023-07-14T16:15
Austin Gil returns to JS Party, bringing a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of file uploads. Brace for an insightful session as we navigate the complexities of this key JavaScript topic togeth...
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The massive bug at the heart of npm from 2023-07-07T16:30
Darcy Clarke, former GitHub Staff Engineering Manager and founder of vlt, joins us to discuss a major bug in the npm ecosystem that he recently disclosed. We cover the bug’s timeline, nuances, and ...
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Is print debugging good enough? from 2023-06-22T19:00
Let’s debate debugging techniques! Do you print debug or dive deep into debugging tools? KBall&Jerod argue that print statements are all you need while Amal&guest Eric Clemmons take the other side....
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It's all part of the process from 2023-06-15T18:20
The panel dives into all of the supporting structures that we build around writing code, what works in different environments, and good and bad practices they have seen. From PR etiquette to CI/CD ...
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Million ways to render from 2023-06-08T18:40
Million.js is a JavaScript library that helps render large datasets in the browser efficiently using a virtual DOM and custom diffing algorithm. Aiden and Tobi join Nick to talk about what it does,...
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Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box from 2023-06-01T17:30
KBall interviews Nick Nisi about the Pandora’s box that is his tooling/developer setup. Starting at the lowest layer of the terminal emulator he uses, they move upwards into command line tools, int...
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Exciting! Exciting? !Exciting from 2023-05-25T18:15
Nick is excited to explain CVA to us like we’re five (then again like we’re 41). KBall is excited to share details of his new stack (for the new app he’s building). Jerod is excited to share some r...
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The ORMazing show from 2023-05-19T15:30
Nick&KBall sit down with the brilliant Stephen Haberman to discuss all things ORMs! 💻🔍From the advantages and disadvantages of ORMs in general, to delving into the intricacies of his innovative p...
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Making web art the hard way from 2023-05-12T17:15
Developer slash artist Alex Miller joins Jerod&Amelia to discuss the challenge he faced after deciding to eschew fancy frameworks and libraries in favor of vanilla JS to build an interactive essay ...
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SST and OpenNext from 2023-05-05T19:00
Dax Raad joins KBall and Nick to chat about SST, a framework that makes it easier to build full-stack applications on AWS. We chat about how the project got started and its goals. Then we discuss O...
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CSS Color Party 🎉 from 2023-04-28T16:40
Adam Argyle joins Amelia and Nick to catch them up on all the goings on within the world of CSS colors. There are a lot more options than you’d expect if you haven’t been keeping up, and Adam’s her...
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Making"safe npm" from 2023-04-21T17:15
Feross and his team at Socket recently shipped a wrapper library for the ubiquitous npm package manager’s command-line interface that brings enhanced security when you need it most: before executin...
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I'd like to add you to my professional network from 2023-04-14T19:45
The panel dives into a topic that makes most software developers cringe: Professional networking. Starting with a definition - what does it even mean? - they go into hacks they’ve found for getting...
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Nick&KBall's"Coffee Talk" from 2023-04-07T17:00
Grab a comfy seat and a hot cup of joe, because it’s time for some coffee talk with Nick&KBall! Special guest Thomas Eckert joins the party and brings a bunch of questions for us to discuss. Who wi...
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See you later, humans! from 2023-03-31T15:00
Jerod&the gang catch you up on what’s new and poppin’ in the web development world. We go deep on GitHub Copilot X and the latest AI advancements, take a bathroom break while Nick talks about TypeS...
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Recreating Node.js from scratch from 2023-03-24T18:20
Node core committer Erick Wendel joins Jerod&KBall to talk us through how he created his own JS runtime using V8, Libuv&more. Along the way we learn from his learnings, wrap our heads around the di...
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The future of React from 2023-03-17T16:00
Dan Abramov&Joe Savona from the React Team join Jerod&Nick for a wide-ranging discussion about React’s place in the frontend ecosystem. We cover everything from React competing with React, their re...
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Celebrating Eleventy 2.0 🎉 from 2023-03-10T18:00
Zach Leatherman returns to the show to discuss his progress over the last year since going full-time on Eleventy, including Eleventy 2.0, the release of WebC, and the state of static site generators.
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Tauri brings Rust to the JS Party from 2023-03-03T17:30
KBall and Nick interview one of the leaders of the Tauri project about this next generation app bundling toolkit: the security, size, and performance features that make it special (and dare we say,...
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Frontend Feud: CSS Podcast vs @keyframers from 2023-02-24T19:00
Una&Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers David&Shaw from the keyframers. Let’s get it on!
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Web development's lost decade from 2023-02-17T21:00
Amal sits down for a one-on-one with Alex Russell, Microsoft Partner on the Edge team, and former Web Standards Tech Lead for Chrome, whose recent post, The Market for Lemons, stirred up a BIG conv...
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Generative AI for devs from 2023-02-10T20:00
The panel dives into the current hot topic that is Generative AI. They start by defining it (a surprisingly difficult topic), then go into experiences they’ve had, how to get started working with i...
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Qwik has just the right amount of magic from 2023-02-03T17:30
A deep dive into Qwik, how it makes your apps fast by default, and the carefully calibrated amount of “magic” that makes it uniquely powerful.
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What's new in Astro 2 from 2023-01-24T14:00
Fred K. Schott joins the party again to discuss all the new and fun changes in Astro 2. Nick and KBall dig in on what’s new, what’s exciting, and what to expect from the framework built around cont...
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How do you define joy? from 2023-01-20T19:30
Jerod&the gang analyze the State of JS 2022 survey results, play a wicked game of HeadLIES&share some Pro Tips to help you live your best dev life.
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The rise&fall of JS frameworks from 2023-01-13T18:15
KBall and Chris dive into the current JavaScript trends towards smaller frameworks, compiled JavaScript, and why Chris believes “this time is different” with regards to developers caring about netw...
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Nick's big rewrite from 2022-04-29T17:00
Nick rewrote our JS Danger game board app from Dojo to React for his talk at React Global Online Summit about componentizing application state with React and XState. On this episode Jerod, KBall, a...
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The Type Annotations proposal from 2022-04-22T16:10
Daniel Rosenwasser and Ryan Cavanaugh from the TypeScript team at Microsoft join Nick and Boneskull to catch us up on the latest happening with the TypeScript project, including what’s exciting in ...
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Postgres.js from 2022-04-15T19:15
Rasmus Porsager created Postgres.js –the fastest full-featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno. Today he joins Jerod for a deep-dive on Postgres, why he created this open source library, and...
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Headlines and HeadLIES! from 2022-04-08T18:30
KBall and Jerod digest and disect recent JS community news (React 18, Redwood 1.0, MDN Plus) then sit down for yet another game of HeadLIES! Can KBall fare better than Nick Nisi did last April Fools?!
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Making moves on supply chain security from 2022-04-01T18:00
Feross has been working on something big. He joins Chris and Nick, along with guests Bret Comnes and Mik Lysenko to discuss Socket, what it is, and its focus on the security of the JavaScript suppl...
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Web development for beginners from 2022-03-25T21:00
Jen Looper from Web Dev for Beginners and Front-end Foxes joins Jerod and Ali to discuss the exciting (but also intimidating) prospect of getting in to web development in 2022! Where should you sta...
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Going full-time on Eleventy from 2022-03-18T16:00
Zach Leatherman recently announced he will now be working on Eleventy – his simpler static site generator – while continuing to work at Netlify. What makes Eleventy special? How’d he convince Netli...
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Enabling performance-centric engineering orgs from 2022-03-11T18:30
This week Amal and Nick are joined by Dan Shappir, a Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance, to learn about enabling a performance-first mindset within your engineering org. Dan recently left his ...
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Remix helps bridge the network chasm from 2022-03-04T19:40
Kent and our panelists dive deep on the hottest new React framework: Remix. What it does today, what makes it special, how it lured Kent away from a lucrative independent teaching career, and what’...
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Vitest&&Slidev from 2022-02-25T18:00
Anthony Fu&&Matias “Patak” Capeletto from the Vite core team join Jerod&&Nick to discuss Vitest – a blazing fast unit-test framework powered by Vite,&&Slidev – presentation slides for developers.
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Playing it close to the Vest from 2022-02-18T18:15
Holla! This week we’re playing Story of the Week and Today I Learned before turning our focus to Vest – a very cool validations framework created by Evyatar Alush.
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A deep-dive on Vite from 2022-02-11T17:00
Amal and Nick load up on coffee for a not-so-vite (lame joke!) conversation with Evan You all about Vite – a batteries included next-generation frontend tooling library. Vite continues to push the ...
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A Solid option for building UIs from 2022-02-04T17:30
Ryan Carniato joins Jerod, Amelia, and Nick to discuss SolidjS – a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
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What's in your package.json? from 2022-01-29T15:15
Tobie Langel, Open source strategist and Principal at UnlockOpen, joins Chris, Feross, and Amal to discuss recent widespread incidents affecting the JavaScript community (and breaking CI builds) ar...
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What Cloudflare is up to from 2022-01-21T17:45
Cloudflare has a lot more to offer than merely DDoS protection and CDN services. On this episode, Jon Kuperman joins Amal&Jerod to talk through many of their cool new things like Workers, KV, Durab...
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Temporal is like React for the backend from 2022-01-14T17:00
Swyx is known for learning in public, and he joins the party to teach Ali and Nick about what he’s been working on with Temporal IO, what it is, and why he’s excited about it. We also talk about hi...
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Frontend Feud: React Advanced Edition from 2021-12-17T16:15
Jerod, Nick, and a node_modules-worthy collection of JS friends played an intense game of Frontend Feud at React Advanced London’s after-party back in October. Today, you get to play along with us!
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So much Sveltey goodness from 2021-12-10T17:40
Rich Harris joins Amal&Amelia for a Svelte deep-dive! What’s it all about? Why might you pick it over React and friends? What up with SvelteKit? Rich is working on it full-time now?! Will even more...
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JavaScript will kill you in the Apocalypse from 2021-12-03T17:00
Salma Alam-Naylor joins us this week to share her thesis that JavaScript is best in moderation, and is a liability when creating performant, resilient, and accessible web applications. Salma says w...
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From engineering to product from 2021-11-26T18:00
Liana Leahy tells Amal and KBall all about her journey from software engineer to product manager. Along the way we learn what a PM does, how to be great at it, how to know if it’s for you, why the ...
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Sophie is the bomb diggity from 2021-11-19T20:00
This week we are joined by Sophie Alpert, Head of Engineering at Humu, and former lead of the React Core team, to discuss her experience on being a very early adopter, contributor, and eventually m...
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The inside story on React’s all new docs from 2021-11-12T18:15
Rachel Nabors –beloved educator, animator,&documentation engineer at Meta– joins Amal and Amelia for a first look at the brand new React docs! This massive overhaul to the React website (which supp...
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Best of the fest! Volume 1 from 2021-11-05T17:45
JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate our favorite moments from the past 100 episodes! You’ll hear from over 20 of your favorite voices across 14 episodes. We also share some behind-the-scenes...
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Ship less JavaScript, closer to the user from 2021-10-29T16:45
KBall catches up with Chris Ferdinandi about the trends in modern web development towards smaller libraries, pre-compilation, and applications at the edge.
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Help make episode 200 extra special! from 2021-10-28T17:00
We’re putting together a special highlight reel for our 200th episode! Share your favorite moments, guests, topics, and/or episodes from the past 100 shows. Every listener who gets their voice or t...
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The decentralized future from 2021-10-22T16:00
Nader Dabit shares his motivation and experience on recently transitioning to focus on technologies and communities that support the decentralized internet. In this hot topics discussion, we cover ...
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Fastify served with a refreshing Pino ? from 2021-10-15T16:00
Matteo Collina, Ph.D takes us to school on all things Node, Fastify, and Pino. We start with his journey into the Node community, how he got started in open source, and his experience as a member o...
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Building GraphQL backends with NestJS from 2021-10-08T16:30
Doug Martin joins Nick to talk to us about building GraphQL backends in TypeScript with NestJS and his project, nestjs-query. We talk about what NestJS is and its built-in support for GraphQL and R...
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Do you know the muffin fairy? from 2021-10-01T19:30
Muffin fairies, thumb wars, and fruit transit can only mean one thing: Explain it Like I’m 5! We’re also covering the news, discussing the effects of remote work, and agreeing it’s OK to ignore the...
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1Password is all in on its web stack from 2021-09-24T16:00
Mitch and Andrew from the 1Password team talk with Amal and Nick about the company’s transition to Electron and web technologies, and how the company utilized its existing web stack to shape the fu...
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Puddin'together cool data-driven essays from 2021-09-17T16:30
Russel Goldenberg&Caitlyn Ralph from The Pudding join Amelia&Nick to talk about how they create data-driven, interactive articles, how the team works on both The Pudding’s data journalism articles ...
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Frontend Feud: ShopTalk vs Syntax from 2021-09-10T16:15
Your favorite web dev podcasts join forces for a super collab that’ll knock you frontend off! Amelia joins Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from ShopTalk Show while Divya teams up with Wes Bos&Scott To...
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X gon'State it to ya from 2021-09-03T16:40
Amal, KBall, and Nick welcome David Khourshid to the show to talk about his project, XState. XState brings state management to a new level using finite state machines and is compatible with your st...
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Replacing Sass at Shopify from 2021-08-27T19:00
Alex Page&Sam Rose from Shopify’s Polaris team join Jerod&Divya to discuss their open research into finding and selecting a viable alternative for Sass at the company. Six solutions enter, but whic...
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Automate all the things with Node.js from 2021-08-20T16:30
Ahmad Awais joins Amal, Amelia, and Jerod to discuss scripting, automation, and building CLIs with Node! We hear Ahmad’s back story, learn the ABC’s of mastering Node automation tooling, and share ...
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We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot from 2021-08-13T16:20
Luis Villa of Tidelift joins the show to discuss GitHub Copilot and the implications of an AI pair programmer from a legal perspective.
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When (and how) to say NO from 2021-08-06T16:30
On this episode, we make our big Frontend Feud announcement, welcome Amelia to the party, then share a metric crap ton of productivity tips&tricks: scripting, pomodoro, retaining your dev flow, and...
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Getting hooked on React from 2021-07-30T14:30
This week we talk with Kent C. Dodds, one of the greatest React teachers in the industry, all about React! Why choose React over another framework? What are the hardest parts about learning React? ...
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Into the Wormhole from 2021-07-23T16:15
Feross is back with a brand new web app for us to pick apart! Wormhole is the fastest way to send files on the internet and we want to know why he built it, how it works, and what crazy hacks he in...
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Much ado before coding from 2021-07-16T16:00
The panel discusses all the things that have to happen before you write a lick of code. Then, for Story of the Week: Dan Abramov thinks npm audit is broken by design. We also have thoughts. Lots of...
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JS on Wasm from 2021-07-09T15:30
KBall and Nick Nisi sit down with Nick Fitzgerald to learn about running JavaScript on WebAssembly. They talk about almost instantaneous startup, running interpreted languages at the edge, and take...
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The Elder.js Guide to the Galaxy from 2021-07-02T16:00
Nick Reese joins the party to tell us all about Elder.js, his opinionated static site generator and web framework built with SEO in mind. Elder.js was purpose-built with large, content-heavy websit...
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Testing testing 1 2 3 from 2021-06-25T15:45
This week we chat with Angie Jones about all things testing. We’ll cover unit testing, visual testing, end-to-end testing, and more!
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Of spiders and monkeys from 2021-06-18T16:00
Yulia Startsev from Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey team joins Jerod&Feross to talk compilers, going back to get your Master’s, making decisions as a group, process of shepherding a feature through TC39, ho...
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Building on the TanStack from 2021-06-11T17:30
Tanner joins Nick to talk about his projects, react-query and react table, and discuss scratching your own itch in a maintainable way with open source.
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Running Node natively in the browser from 2021-06-04T16:35
Eric Simons and the StackBlitz team recently announced WebContainers which let you run Node.js natively in your browser! This has BIG implications and leaves us with many BIG questions like: how di...
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Let's talk rendering patterns from 2021-05-28T15:30
Brian LeRoux has been building the web long enough to see many ways we produce HTML come in and go out of fashion. On this episode, he joins Amal&Nick to discuss the past, present, and potential fu...
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CSS! Everyone's favorite programming language from 2021-05-21T16:00
This week Emma and Adam are joined by Una Kravets to discuss difficult parts of CSS.
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This is ReScript from 2021-05-14T16:00
Ever wanted a language like JavaScript, but without the warts, with a great type system, and with a lean build toolchain that doesn’t waste your time? Patrick Ecker from the ReScript Association si...
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For a more dope web! from 2021-05-07T16:30
Paul Bakaus from Google Web Creators joins Amal, Nick,&Jerod to talk about this new initiative to promote, educate, and equip people to create on the web. Along the way we discuss Web Stories, AMP,...
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Blasting off with Apollo ? from 2021-04-30T18:00
KBall, Amal, and Feross are joined by special guest Jenn Creighton to talk about all things Apollo. How does Apollo fit into the GraphQL ecosystem, what’s the next big thing, and when would you cho...
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Sweet setups for easier dev from 2021-04-23T15:20
The gang talks about thier favorite software and hardware as developers. Brian Douglas joins to share his unique and open GitHub Actions flow.
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Less JavaScript more HTMX from 2021-04-16T14:30
Jerod&Feross learn all about htmx (a pragmatic approach to web frontends) and _hyperscript (an experimental scripting language inspired by HyperTalk) with special guest Carson from Big Sky Software...
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Headlines? More like HeadLIES! from 2021-04-09T16:15
Jerod and Nick discuss the big Deno news, play a ridiculous new game in honor of April Fool’s Day, then give shout outs to some awesome software projects we love.
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Work environments&happiness from 2021-04-02T15:15
KBall, Amal, and Nick dive into key dimensions of what makes a developer work environment good – or bad. They discuss systemic factors, individual factors, what you can do about it, and a proposed...
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Monad's Hook from 2021-03-26T16:30
In which Jerod, Nick, and KBall play the most preposterous round of “Explain it Like I’m 5” in human history. Then we dig in to Vite a little further than is advisable on a podcast. Finally, we tal...
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10 a11y mistakes to avoid from 2021-03-19T17:00
Spotify’s Tryggvi Gylfason joins Emma&Nick to discuss common accessibility mistakes and tips for avoiding them!
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JS Danger: CSS-Tricks Edition from 2021-03-12T17:15
The wonderful folks behind CSS-Tricks (maybe you’ve heard of it?) face off in our much beloved don’t-call-it-jeopardy game show. Can you out smart our intrepid contestants? Play along while you lis...
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Who let the docs out? from 2021-03-05T17:00
The week we talk about the new Open Web Docs initiative and the future of MDN.
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We really needed new jingles from 2021-02-26T17:00
Go Time’s Mat Ryer joins Jerod, KBall, and Nick to play Story of the Week, Today I Learned, Unpopular Opinions, and Shout Outs!
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JS is an occasionally functional language from 2021-02-19T17:00
Eric Normand (long-time FP advocate and author of Grokking Simplicity) joins Jerod and KBall for a deep conversation about Functional Programming in JavaScript. Eric teaches us what FP is all about...
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Are web apps fundamentally different than web sites? from 2021-02-12T19:45
Our debate format returns! Divya&Feross take the “Nope” side while Amal&Nick represent the “Yep”s. Whose side will you take?
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Istanbul (not Constantinople) from 2021-02-05T19:30
Benjamin Coe joins Amal and Divya to discuss his wide-ranging open source projects, test coverage with Istanbul, and the future of testing in JavaScript.
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Breaking down the State of CSS/JS from 2021-01-29T16:30
KBall hangs with Nick and Jerod to analyze and discuss the trends of the web world according to the latest State of CSS and State of JS survey results.
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Roadmaps to becoming a web developer in 2021 from 2021-01-22T15:00
Kamran Ahmed, creator of Developer Roadmaps, joins Jerod to talk through his 2021 roadmaps to becoming a web developer. We cover why Kamran created these resources, who they’re for, how to interpre...
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Waldo's My Roommate? from 2021-01-15T17:30
Preact creator Jason Miller joins Jerod and Nick to discuss WMR– the tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps. We ask Jason what “modern web app” means, how WMR fits in to the JS toolin...
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New Year's Party ? from 2021-01-08T18:00
KBall, Amal, Chris, Divya, Jerod, and Emma discuss 2020: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Then they change direction and discuss their 2021 resolutions and wishes!
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A hot cup of Mocha ? from 2020-12-18T20:45
Amal and Divya turn our spotlight inward and interview our very own Christopher “Boneskull” Hiller about maintaining Mocha.js. Mocha has been a mainstay in the JavaScript testing community for ten ...
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The Tailwind beneath my wings from 2020-12-11T17:00
Tailwind CSS creator Adam Wathan joins Jerod, Nick,&Feross for an in-depth discussion of his trending utility-first CSS framework. We cover why everyone complains about CSS, how Tailwind began and ...
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How to design a great API from 2020-12-04T17:15
Suz, Amal, and Chris join Jerod to discuss what APIs are all about, share some APIs they admire, and lay out principles and practices we can all use in our APIs.
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Ionic and developer tooling from 2020-11-20T16:00
Nick, and Kball are joined by Mike Hartington to talk about Ionic, the state of web components, developer tooling, and more!
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Automate the pain away with DivOps from 2020-11-13T20:30
What the what is DivOps?! That’s the question Jonathan Creamer is here to answer. In so doing, we cover the past, present, and future of frontend tooling.
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Frontend Feud: HalfStack Edition from 2020-11-06T17:45
Frontend Feud returns! Emma heads up team Boooooleans ?and Nick captains the Whiteboard Interviews Millionaires. We played this game for our friends at HalfStack Conf and the full video of the sess...
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An ode to jQuery from 2020-10-30T15:30
We take up a listener request this week and have an honest conversation about jQuery. Then, it’s time for something new! Our friends at Hot New Tech review tone.js for us. After that, it’s Pro Tip ...
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Bringing it back to TypeScript from 2020-10-23T15:45
Ben Ilegbodu joins Divya, Suz,&Amal to talk about introducing TypeScript at Stitch Fix, why TypeScript and React work well together, building component libraries, and more.
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Thank you, Dr. Bahmutov! from 2020-10-16T15:15
Gleb Bahmutov, PhD joins the show for a fun conversation around end-to-end testing. We get the skinny on Cypress, find out how it’s structured as both an open source library and a SaaS business, te...
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Frontend Feud from 2020-10-09T16:30
Our much anticipated Family Feud rip-off inspired game show is finally here! Emma was joined by Nick and special guest Abenezer Abebe to form the Hypertext Assassins. KBall captained (despite never...
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Redux is definitely NOT dead from 2020-10-02T17:00
Redux maintainer Mark Erikson joins Jerod and Amal for an in-depth conversation around the React community’s fav state management solution. We learn how Mark came to be maintainer of Redux, why and...
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Double your testing trouble from 2020-09-25T14:30
Justin Searls from Test Double joins the party to talk about patterns he’s identified that lead to failure, minimalism, and of course, testing!
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The Builder Pattern (for your career) from 2020-09-18T16:30
The panelists discuss their thoughts on career progression while sharing some of their own history. They also talk about important considerations to think about when deciding where to go next, and ...
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Let's replace your kidney with React from 2020-09-11T16:00
Ahmad Nassri returns to the party for a deep, nuanced discussion around the thoughts he shared in a recent blog post called Solving Solved Problems. We hear about the common issue Ahmad’s seen at s...
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Horse JS speaks! from 2020-09-04T16:00
We kick off with some exciting TypeScript news, follow that with some exciting JavaScript news, then finish off with an exciting interview. Key word: EXCITING
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Content is QUEEN ? from 2020-08-28T16:15
In this episode, we dive into the role of communication as a developer, how clarity is driving impact and how to self publish as an independent writer. Join us, as we chat with Stephanie Morillo au...
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What's happening in TC39 land from 2020-08-21T21:00
KBall MCs as Jordan tells us about exciting JavaScript updates that are on the way, Amal takes us all to school digging into the details, and Emma makes a surprise on-air proposal.
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Best practices for Node developers from 2020-08-14T13:30
Node.js development began a bit like the Wild West, but over time idioms, anti-patterns, and best practices have emerged. Yoni Goldberg’s Node Best Practices repo on GitHub collects, documents, and...
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Amal joins the party ? from 2020-08-07T16:00
The gang officially welcomes Amal Hussein as a panelist! After that it’s Pro Tip Time, then we finish up by attempting to demistify CSS Sweeper and the Space Toggle Trick.
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Migrating to ES Modules from 2020-07-31T19:30
Mikeal and Chris welcome (back) special guest Fred K. Schott, who you may recall from our episode on Pika. This time, we’re talking ESM: what it is, what’s new about it, why it’s the future, writin...
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Deep in the WebRTC deep end from 2020-07-24T17:00
Jerod assembles a team of WebRTC experts (Suz, Feross, Mikeal) for a deep, deep dive on this practically-ubiquitous yet still-complicated web API. We review its history, share really cool applicati...
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Where the Prolog version of Vue died from 2020-07-17T16:00
An amalgam of interest on this week’s episode starting with a peek at what’s finally coming in Vue 3. We talk about the process of change in the Vue ecosystem and what interesting features are comi...
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"GraphQL is the bacon that'll make everything better" from 2020-07-10T14:00
KBall, Jerod, and Nick Nisi dive into GraphQL – what it can do, what the challenges are, and how it differs from REST – all with a generous helping of metaphor about buffets, restaurants, and of co...
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Blitz.js puts React on Rails from 2020-07-03T15:15
Blitz.js creator Brandon Bayer joins Jerod to dive deep into the foundational principles of this fullstack React framework. We talk about its inspiration (Ruby on Rails), its differentiation (a “no...
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Feross takes us to security school from 2020-06-26T17:20
Did you know Feross taught Web Security at Stanford last Fall? On this episode, Divya and Nick enroll in his security school to learn about XSS, CSP, ambient authority, and a whole lot more.
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Evolving alongside JS from 2020-06-19T14:30
We take a listener request this week and discuss how we evolve alongside (or opt out of) the ever changing JavaScript syntax. Arrow functions and variable declarations take center stage, but a wide...
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Betting on Svelte for pace.dev from 2020-06-12T16:00
We often try new frameworks and tools in side projects or throwaway contexts, but you don’t learn that much about a thing until you use it to build something real. That’s why we have Mat Ryer and D...
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JS Danger: HalfStack Edition from 2020-05-29T17:45
JS Danger is back! Suz, Emma, and Divya square off in our don’t-call-it-jeopardy game show. Will Emma totally redeem herself? Are Divya’s trivia skills as on point as her debate skills? Will Suz mu...
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We hear Dojo 7 is"better than React" from 2020-05-22T16:45
Nick and Jerod welcome Dojo’s Matt Gadd to the show to catch us up on what’s changed with the framework since episode #25, what’s coming in version 7, and to defend Nick’s comment that if you like ...
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A visit to Deno Land from 2020-05-15T15:00
Divya and Nick welcome Deno’s Kit Kelly to the show to celebrate the highly-anticipated new JavaScript/TypeScript runtime’s big 1.0 release. This is a wide-ranging discussion about all things Deno....
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What I’m gonna share here is really mediocre from 2020-05-08T16:15
Node 14, Vue’s Vite, and is-promise are in the news. We’ve got some working from home tips and unpopular opinions to share. And… shout outs! ?
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These buttons look like buttons from 2020-05-01T15:30
This week Feross and Emma chat with Segun Adebayo about Chakra UI, a modular React component library that’s changing the game for design systems and app development.
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We got confs on lockdown from 2020-04-24T17:30
Emma, Divya, and Suz are joined by Quincy Larson from freeCodeCamp where they chat about virtual conferences. Are they better than in-person conferences? What are the differences? Let’s find out!
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JS"Danger"Party from 2020-04-17T16:15
Our Jeopardy-style (but don’t call it Jeopardy) game is back! This time Jerod plays the part of Alex Trabeck and Emma tries her hand at contestant-ing. Can Scott Tolinski from the Syntax podcast ha...
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What's new and what's Next.js from 2020-04-10T16:00
Divya and Jerod welcome ZEIT founder Guillermo Rauch to the show for a deep discussion on the state of JAMstack, what’s new&exciting with Next.js, and some big picture analysis of where the industr...
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What even is a micro frontend? from 2020-04-03T15:00
Jerod and KBall are joined by Micro Frontends in Action author Michael Geers to discuss (you guessed it) micro frontend architecture. We ask: what is the concept? How is it similar/different to mic...
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Redwood brings full-stack to the JAMstack from 2020-03-20T16:15
Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of GitHub, board member at Netlify) joins the party and brings his new, opinionated, full-stack, serverless web app framework with him. Will Redwood help usher in the...
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"I do, we do, you do" from 2020-03-13T15:15
This week we’re talking about building technical courses! From video courses to written courses, we’ll give you our tips for building an effective and memorable course.
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Catching up with Gatsby from 2020-03-06T17:00
Dustin Schau joins the party to talk about the state of Gatsby and the changes and improvements to it in the last year. We talk about what Gatsby delivers to the front end and how it does it quickl...
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This is JS Party! from 2020-03-03T21:47:47
We are a party-themed podcast, so FUN is at the heart of every episode. One way we keep things fun is by mixing it up and trying new things. We play games like JS Jeopardy… (clip from episode #112)...
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Somebody somewhere is generating JS from Fortran from 2020-02-28T19:30
KBall interviews Brian Leroux in a wide-ranging discussion covering “Progressive Bundling” with native ES Modules, building infrastructure as code, and what the future of JamStack and serverless de...
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All the stale things from 2020-02-21T20:30
Divya leads a deep discussion with Jerod, KBall, and Nick on what’s stagnating in browsers. What has remained the same in browser tech over the last 20 years that remains a pain point in working wi...
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Octane moves Ember to an HTML-first approach from 2020-02-14T16:45
KBall and Nick dive deep with Chris Manson and Jen Weber from the Ember core team. They talk about Ember.js: What it is, why it’s different, what’s new in the Ember Octane release, and what’s excit...
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GraphQL's benefits and costs from 2020-02-11T12:00
We teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we’re sharing a full-length episode right here in the JS Party feed. This episode features Owen Ou, who is joined...
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Fullstack D3 from 2020-02-07T19:45
The State of JS 2019 survey left many in awe of the beautifully rendered line graph created by Amelia Wattenberger. So we’ve brought her on JS Party to discuss how she built it! We’ll chat about al...
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Do you want JavaScript again or more JavaScript? from 2020-01-31T17:15
It’s a new year which means companies are hiring and developers are interviewing. So we thought it would be fun to host a fun game of technical Jeopardy.
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Lesser known things browsers can do in 2020 from 2020-01-24T16:15:11
Did you know you can make a device vibrate via a webpage? Neither did we until we popped open Luigi De Rosa’s super cool repo that collects many of the lesser known things browsers can do in 2020. ...
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Your code might be gross for a reason from 2020-01-17T16:00
KBall, Divya, Mikeal, and Feross dig deep into refactoring. When to do it, best practices, things to watch out for, and the difference between a refactor and a rewrite. We then close out with some ...
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These talks are all quite attractive from 2020-01-10T19:12:05
At Node+JS Interactive… the talks are all quite attractive. From transpilation dread… to awesome worker threads. This conf is surely impactive!
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Modular software architecture from 2019-12-20T16:20
Jerod and Divya welcome npm CTO Ahmad Nassri to discuss modular architecture. What it is, why it matters, and how you can achieve it. Ahmad has been thinking deeply about this topic lately and we h...
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Mikeal schools us on ES Modules from 2019-12-13T16:45
ES Modules are unflagged in Node 13. What does this mean? Can we use them yet? We chat with Mikeal, our resident expert, and find out.
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Modernizing Etsy’s codebase with React from 2019-12-06T12:00
KBall connects with Katie Sylor-Miller to talk about migrating OhShitGit to the JAMStack, migrating legacy codebases to modern front-end technologies, and design systems.
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Mentor-ship ?? from 2019-11-29T14:00
This week we chatted with Kahlil Lechelt about mentorship. What types of mentorships are there, what makes a successful mentorship, and where can you find a mentor?
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You're probably using streams from 2019-11-22T16:36:05
This week we chat with Matteo Collina, Technical Director at NearForm and member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, about his upcoming Node+JS Interactive talk on Node Streams. We talk ab...
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Component libraries, style guides, design systems... OH MY from 2019-11-15T15:56:06
Design systems are taking the tech industry by storm, but what exactly are they? Do you even need one? This week we’re talking all things design systems. We’ll chat about component libraries and st...
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Should we rebrand JavaScript? from 2019-11-08T21:20:18
We’re back with another #YepNope episode, this time debating whether or not JavaScript needs to be rebranded. This premise was inspired by Kieran Potts’ article of the same name. Divya/Jerod repres...
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11 awesome lightning chats ?? from 2019-11-01T21:09:43
What you’re about to hear is a series of lightning chats recorded live from All Things Open 2019. How’s this for topic diversity? ?A/B testing, finding your tribe, dancing, TikTok, what is happenin...
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There’s no server more secure than one that doesn’t exist from 2019-10-25T14:24:13
KBall catches up with Phil Hawksworth of Netlify at JAMStackConfSF to dive deep into JAMStack, what it’s about, where the ecosystem is going, and what is still hard.
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And... the website is down ? from 2019-10-18T15:13:37
Jerod, Divya,&Suz get together to discuss top-level await, the JS13kGames winner, Liran Tal’s is-website-vulnerable, Vue 3’s source code, and Facebook’s take on AR/VR/XR. Plus 3 awesome pro tips yo...
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The wonderful thing about Tiggers from 2019-10-11T16:44:41
KBall, Jerod, and Divya dig deep into how we learn. We look into how to choose what to learn, techniques for learning, and a set of respective resources.
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Performant Node desktop apps with NodeGui from 2019-10-04T16:51:27
What if you could have an Electron-like app framework without the Chromium dependency and resulting performance woes? Well, now you can. NodeGui is a Qt5-powered, cross-platform, native app GUI fra...
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Win a FREE ?? to All Things Open 2019! from 2019-09-30T18:46:47
A brief announcement about the upcoming All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC. What we’ll be doing there, why you should join us, and how to win a FREE ?? to the event.
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Visual programming with hardware and Node-RED from 2019-09-27T18:00:05
Special guest Nick O’Leary joins us this episode to chat about the Node-RED project, how it started, and the fascinating uses cases for it out in the wild. We go into some of the technical challeng...
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Ohhh! Caching!! from 2019-09-20T11:00
The gang gets together to catch you up on what’s new¬eworthy in the community. Then we share a few things we’ve learned recently in our first-ever “Today I Learned” segment. Finally, we wrap it ...
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Remember, people are human from 2019-09-13T14:53:12
KBall, Divya, Feross, and Jerod get together to discuss tips and tricks for communicating with other coders, project stakeholders, and users.
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The conference scene ? from 2019-09-06T14:08:33
This episode is all about conferences and there is a lot to talk about! Why even go? What makes a conference worth it? How can you get the most of the experience? Is speaking worth all the effort? ...
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Semver would be great if nobody ever shipped bugs from 2019-08-30T16:33:49
With the jumping off point of KBall’s question: “What are best practices for organizing a Node project?” Mikeal and Feross drop an incredible amount of wisdom about Node, organizing using modules, ...
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You fought in the framework wars? from 2019-08-23T20:55
KBall, Divya, and Chris talk about what’s going on in all the big frontend frameworks, share some pro tips, and shout out awesome people and things in the community.
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Is modern JS tooling too complicated? from 2019-08-16T19:06:03
Adam adds a twist to our YepNope format this week. Instead of 2v2, it’s 1v1v1 with Mikeal reppin’ team Yep, Divya on team Nope, and Feross sitting in the middle on team It Depends. You don’t want t...
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Droppin'insider logic bombs from 2019-08-09T20:10
Jerod, Feross, and Nick discuss the latest npm security fiasco, opine on the strengths and weaknesses of spreadsheets, explain CORS like they’re 5 (sorta), and give shout outs to deserving purveyor...
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Should websites work without JS? from 2019-08-02T16:35:18
We’re trying a brand new segment called YepNope, wherein your intrepid panelists engage in a lively debate around a premise. In this debate, Feross and KBall argue that websites should work without...
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How to get into OSS from 2019-07-30T19:00
KBall and Nick sync up with Node.js core contributor Ujjwal Sharma to dive deep into how to get into the world of open source software.
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Creating JavaScript from 2019-07-30T11:00
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek of CodeNewbie, about the people who transform technology from the c...
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Building PizzaQL at the age of 16 from 2019-07-26T15:00
Jerod, Mikeal, and Feross welcome Antoni Kepinski to the show to discuss his open source pizza ordering management web app. We talk about learning programming at a young age, how overwhelming web d...
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React + WebAssembly = ?? from 2019-07-15T19:00
KBall catches up with Florian Rival about bring a C++ based game engine to the web by compiling to WebAssembly and creating a React-based frontend.
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An honest conversation about burnout from 2019-07-09T11:00
Suz, Feross, and Emma have an honest conversation about burnout. They ask questions like — How do developers deal with burnout? What is burnout? What are examples of burnout in open source? Plus th...
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LIVE from NodeConf Colombia from 2019-07-01T17:00
KBall MC’d a live show at NodeConf Colombia with a panel of 4 experts from the Node community — Kat Marchán, Anna Henningsen, Ruben Bridgewater, and James Snell. It was a great discussion about the...
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The story of Konami-JS from 2019-06-21T11:00
Jerod and Divya are joined by George Mandis to learn all about his “frivolous” JavaScript library that’s helped countless websites implement the beloved cheat code. Ten years later and still active...
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JavaScript is the CO2 of the web from 2019-06-14T21:30
KBall, Divya, and Nick get together with Chris Ferdinandi to talk about vanilla JavaScript, best resources for learning, and our favorite vanilla JavaScript tips, tricks and APIs.
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Spicy fonts and static sites ?? from 2019-06-10T16:25
Zach Leatherman joins the party with Divya and Nick to talk about fonts and static site generators! Zach shares his knowledge about font loading, what can go wrong, and how we can avoid issues. The...
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Developer strengths and weaknesses ????? from 2019-05-31T17:00
Jerod, Suz, Divya, and Kball share their thoughts, opinions, and advice on developer strengths and weaknesses — compromise, communication, tool mastery, deep dives into dev history, and mentorship/...
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It’s just JavaScript®? from 2019-05-24T18:00
Jerod, Kball, Divya, and Nick share their initial impressions of GitHub’s recently announced package registry, what JS skills are trending in job listings, and shout outs!
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You don’t have to dress up from 2019-05-18T21:00
KBall, Emma, and Chris explain some things to each other like we’re five, bring stories of the week, and share some sweet pro tips.
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LIVE at ReactJS Girls from 2019-05-14T11:00
Emma Wedekind MC’d a live show at ReactJS Girls with a panel of 3 amazing women — Eve Porcello, Marcy Sutton, and Kate Beard. It was a great discussion covering the biggest challenges they’ve faced...
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When in doubt, log an issue from 2019-05-07T17:00
Nick and Mikeal catch up with Henry Zhu, the maintainer of Babel and host of the Maintainers Anonymous and Hope in Source podcasts. We discuss his path to open source maintainer-ship. We also chat ...
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Fresh voices! from 2019-04-30T11:00
Jerod welcomes new panelists Emma Wedekind and Divya Sasidharan to the party! We get to know these two amazing ladies and then open up the conversation to talk about what’s on their mind. Divya bro...
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LIVE from React Amsterdam from 2019-04-19T19:30
KBall MC’d a live show at React Amsterdam with a panel of 5 amazing React experts — Kitze, Michel Weststrate, Mike Grabowski, Vladimir Novick, and Andrey Okonetchnikov. It was a great discussion of...
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Wow, Gatsby is a mashup on steroids from 2019-04-12T17:00
KBall and Jason geek out on the ins and outs of Gatsby. They talked through the fundamentals of working with Gatsby, the development process, and look into the future of Gatsby.
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Refactoring script soup from 2019-04-05T17:00
KBall, Nick, and Chris dig into the various dimensions along which projects vary, dig into testing and best practices, and share a number of lessons learned from legacy projects.
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Bundle because you want to, not because you need to from 2019-03-29T15:03:57
Jerod and Nick are joined by Fred K. Schott – the main brain behind Pika. What’s that, you ask? An effort to make modern JavaScript more accessible by making it easier to find, publish, install, an...
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What kind of moisture sensors do you use? from 2019-03-22T21:00
We discuss the news (built-in modules, OpenJSFoundation, Lambda School stipends), chat about the internet of JS things, and finish up with one of our favorite segments: shout outs!
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The great divide reprise from 2019-03-20T16:30
Chris Coyier joins Suz and Jerod to continue the discussion on The Great Divide in front-end-land. We also use this as an opportunity to gush on how much CSS-Tricks has done for the community, get ...
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Mastering the art of conference-driven development from 2019-03-08T19:45
KBall and Suz interview Ashi Krishnan, visual poet and senior software engineer at GitHub. Topics include how Ashi got into programming, her upcoming talk at React Amsterdam, code bootcamps, and de...
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Building rapid UI with utility-first CSS from 2019-03-04T19:00
Panelist Jerod Santo and first-time panelist Adam Stacoviak talk with Adam Wathan of Full Stack Radio fame about his CSS utility library called Tailwind CSS that’s growing in popularity to rapidly ...
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TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript from 2019-02-25T12:30
Panelists Suz Hinton and Nick Nisi discuss TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript with special guest Paige Bailey, TensorFlow mom and developer Advocate for Google AI.
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LIVE from JSConf Hawai'i from 2019-02-15T12:00
KBall picks the brains of 4 of the speakers at JSConf Hawai’i to investigate the future of JavaScript and Web Development.
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From voice devices to mobile, you just can't escape JavaScript from 2019-02-08T12:00
KBall and Nick catch up with Nara Kaspergen and Jen Looper for a pair of conversations covering Voice UI Devices, using NativeScript for mobile development, and Jen’s work with Vue Vixens helping m...
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How great the (front end) divide from 2019-02-01T12:00
Panelists Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Kevin Ball chat about the perceived Great Divide in front end development, why 2019 is the year of TypeScript, and shout outs to inspirational members of the co...
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You might want to read up on PAW Patrol from 2019-01-25T12:00
Your 3 intrepid hosts try to explain JS concepts (bind/apply, thunks, and ReasonML) to each other as if we’re five year olds. Hilarity and/or confusion ensues. During Pro Tip Time, Suz tells a stor...
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Our thoughts and experiences with SSGs from 2019-01-18T12:00
The JS Party crew discuss static site generators, our experiences with them, and what the future might hold for this ever-evolving technology.
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Real JavaScript, not too much, stage three and above from 2019-01-11T12:00
KBall and Nick meet up with Jory Burson and Amal Hussein at Node+JS Interactive. Together we open up the black box of the JavaScript standards process, talk about how to get involved, and then dig ...
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Jumping off the Edge into Chromium from 2018-12-21T19:52:43
Nick, KBall, and Chris respond to follow up on the State of JavaScript survey, discuss Chromium, Edge, and the future of the web, and reminisce about the past year in the final JS Party of 2018!
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We're dependent. See? from 2018-12-14T12:00
KBall, Chris, Nick, and Safia discuss how they keep a healthy relationship with dependencies in their codebase. Listen to learn how they decide when to use third-party dependencies, how they verify...
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The future of the web is npm, but maybe not JavaScript from 2018-12-07T17:14:33
In this special episode of JS Party, KBall and Nick are on location at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver. They talks with Laurie Voss, co-founder and COO of npm Inc. They chat about his talk, “npm...
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trust.js but verify from 2018-11-30T16:59:33
KBall, Jerod, and Nick break down some recent events in the JavaScript world. Take a dive into the recent event-stream malware attack, breaking down the State of JavaScript 2018 survey, and sharing...
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VisBug is like DevTools for designers from 2018-11-23T12:00
Google UX Engineer Adam Argyle joins Jerod and KBall to share all the details on VisBug, his just-released Chrome Extension that “makes any webpage feel like an artboard.” Adam is passionate about ...
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Nest'dem loops from 2018-11-16T12:00
NESTED LOOPS is a JavaScript band that combines music and video with web tech to perform live at JSConf. In this episode, Jerod and Suz are joined by Jan Monschke and Kahlil Lechelt, which comprise...
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Come play in the CodeSandbox from 2018-11-09T18:23:26
In this episode, Nick talks with Ives van Hoorne about his project CodeSandbox. They chat about Ives deciding to work on it full-time, how CodeSandbox is built, some of its best features, and what ...
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What up, docs? ? from 2018-11-02T17:08:32
Safia, Nick, Jerod, and Chris get together to talk about documentation. Documentation is essential in our work but it can be difficult to get buy-in. The crew talks about how you can get others to ...
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Serverless? We don’t need no stinkin’ SERVERS from 2018-10-26T18:55
Disclaimer: no servers were harmed in the taping of this show. We hosted a special discussion with Jeremy Daly, Kevin Ball, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller on the ideas around serverless, managed...
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LIVE from Node + JS Interactive from 2018-10-19T17:00
KBall, Nick, and Suz MC’d a live show at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver with Tierney Cyren (Node Foundation) and Dave Methvin (JS Foundation) to discuss the proposed merger between the JS Found...
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The nitty gritty on BitMidi from 2018-10-12T17:00
Where does Feross get all those wonderful toys? He builds them with JavaScript, of course! BitMidi – a website for listening to your favorite MIDI files – is his latest creation. In this episode, J...
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Fantastic bugs and how to squash them from 2018-10-05T17:00
Safia, Suz, KBall and Nick get together to talk about bugs! Not those pesky things you’re scared to squash because they might suddenly jump on you — this is all about JavaScript bugs; how you preve...
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The CSS expertise kerfuffle from 2018-09-28T17:00
Suz, Nick, and KBall are joined by special guest Aimee Knight to talk about CSS, how it’s often trivialized and how that in turn affects the people who write it, what CSS in JS is, and how to get s...
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Stories of personal JavaScript failures from 2018-09-21T17:00
Suz, Jerod, Nick and KBall talk about cringeworthy mistakes and failures they (and the community!) have experienced with JavaScript. They also give advice to themselves as if they were just startin...
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Interviews from JSConf from 2018-09-14T17:00
KBall interviews with Michael Chan, Juan Pablo Buriticá and Julián David Duque, and Tim Doherty at JSConf.US. Conversations about the importance of DRY code, the metaphors we use for software, Java...
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Decentralizing the web with Beaker from 2018-09-07T17:00
Feross talks with Mathias Buus and Paul Frazee about the decentralized web, why the average person should care about decentralization of the web, the Beaker browser, Dat and the differences and sim...
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Applying the magic of compilers to the frontend from 2018-08-31T17:00
KBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember’s binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.
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LIVE from JSConf! from 2018-08-24T11:00
In this special episode of JS Party at JS Conf in Carlsbad, Nick, Suz, Feross, and KBall talk about crazy JavaScript combinations, tips to get started speaking, being committed to diversity as a co...
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Experimenting with some new ideas ? from 2018-08-17T17:00
Jerod, Nick, KBall, and Chris pre-party forJSConf by testing out some brand new segment ideas: Story of the Week, What the WHAT… WG, and Protip Time. What do you think of these segments? Like ’em? ...
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REST easy, GraphQL is here from 2018-08-10T17:00
Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.
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npm is made of people. PEOPLE! from 2018-08-03T17:00
Jerod, Nick, and Chris talk with Jeff Lembeck about his tweets, the people behind npm, the need for empathy, and things they’re excited about.
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Behind the party with Suz at OSCON from 2018-07-27T17:25:10
Adam and Jerod catch up with Suz about her presentation at OSCON, some cool stuff she’s doing at her house, and more.
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A11y is your ally from 2018-07-27T17:00
Suz, Safia, and Kball get together to talk about accessibility; what does it mean, why should we care, and what tools and resources can we use to better educate ourselves, and improve our work.
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Justin Jackson finds focus [rebroadcast] from 2018-07-20T17:00
In this special episode of JS Party, we’re sharing a full-length episode of our new show, Away from Keyboard. This show explores the human side of creative work. In this episode, Tim talks with Jus...
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JavaScript eating the world, desktop edition from 2018-07-13T17:00
Kball and Feross talk with Shelley Vohr and Jeremy Apthorp about what Electron is, why to use it, and what comes next for the platform.
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Enough string to hang yourself from 2018-07-06T17:00
Jerod, Nick, and KBall shake off their July 4th malaise by diving deep in to ES6 Proxies, wondering how best to share components across projects, and giving their younger selves advice. Also: shout...
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WASM is AWSM from 2018-06-29T18:48:05
Kevin Ball and Suz Hinton talk with Jay Phelps about WebAssembly; what it is, how to use it, and how some are using it already.
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GraphQL, when to use JavaScript, JS robotics from 2018-06-22T11:00
KBall and Tim are on location at Fluent/Velocity and had the chance to talk with Brian Douglas about GraphQL and GitHub’s recent changes, Aimee Knight about knowing when to use JavaScript over CSS,...
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Do what every developer does: blame other people from 2018-06-19T11:00
Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Jerod Santo talk about their debugging methods, the cool things that JavaScript can do but isn’t talked about much, and their opinions on Git history.
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Node's survey, Ry's regrets, Microsoft's GitHub from 2018-06-08T17:00
Big week! KBall, Nick, and JBall (nooch) dive deep in to the 2018 Node.js user survey results. What does it all mean?! They also review Ryan Dahl’s “10” regrets about Node and sound off on Microsof...
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ML in JS... well... yes? from 2018-06-01T17:34:16
Suz Hinton, Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball, and Christopher Hiller talk about machine learning, the ethics surrounding it, why you would use JavaScript with it, and much more.
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A tooling extravaganza! from 2018-05-25T17:56:33
Kevin Ball, Alex Sexton, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller talk all things tooling. Build tooling, linting, formatting, IDEs, and a small tangent on Vim.
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?TS Party! ? from 2018-05-18T11:00
Jerod Santo, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller talk about what TypeScript is and why we should care, who’s using TypeScript, and thoughts on developer titles.
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Cool, depending on your definition of cool from 2018-05-07T11:00
Feross Aboukhadijeh, Suz Hinton, Nick Nisi, and Alex Sexton get weird this week talking about their favorite old and weird HTML tags, web APIs that do or don’t require permission, and their favorit...
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The state of Node security from 2018-04-30T11:00
Suz Hinton, Christopher Hiller, and Jerod Santo talk with Adam Baldwin about his company being acquired by NPM, the security of Node, best practices, and more.
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PWAs to eat the world. Or maybe not. News at 11! from 2018-04-23T11:00
Jerod Santo, Safia Abdalla, Nick Nisi, and Kevin Ball talk about progressive web apps. What are they, what do they do, what are some practical ways of using them, and more.
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Oh, the places JS will go from 2018-04-13T20:38:05
Jerod Santo, Suz Hinton, Feross Aboukhadijeh, and Kevin Ball talk about awesome things being done with JavaScript like WebUSB, WebTorrent, and DSLs.
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JS Party is back! ? from 2018-04-06T21:32:27
The party is back! In this episode, we talk about what we love about JS, Tabler and admin UI’s, and shoutouts to some of our favorite projects and people.
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Web Audio API and TypeScript is Turing Complete from 2017-08-18T17:30
Alex Sexton, Rachel White, and Myles Borins talk about the Web Audio API and how TypeScript is “Turing Complete”.
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2017 Node.js User Survey and Beaker Browser from 2017-08-18T17:15
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Paul Frazee talk about the 2017 Node.js user survey and Beaker Browser - an experimental peer-to-peer web browser that uses the Dat protocol to host sites from a use...
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AMA — BasicAttentionToken, Robotics, IDE's and Stuff from 2017-08-18T17:00
This is an AMA show with live questions from the #jsparty Slack channel. We cover everything from BasicAttentionToken, Robotics, Microsoft, IDE’s, and other fun stuff.
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ES Modules and ESM Loader from 2017-07-26T19:00
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and John-David Dalton talk about ES Modules history and current status, and JDD’s ESM loader.
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Async control flow and threats to the open web from 2017-07-07T19:00
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Kyle Simpson talk about Async Control Flow and Threats to the Open Web, plus our project of the week Blake2b-WASM.
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Inside Node 8, Glitch, Building a Community Around Education from 2017-06-23T21:00
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Jessica Lord talk with James Snell (Node.js TSC Director) about the release of Node.js version 8. Then, in the second half of the show, we discuss Glitch and their n...
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Inside the Release of npm@5 and Sheetsee from 2017-06-13T19:00
Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton talk with Rebecca Turner and Kat Marchán about npm@5 and Jessica Lord about Sheetsee.
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Using ES6/7, create-react-app, and Electron! from 2017-06-01T13:30
Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton discuss how they’re using ES6/7 with and without a compiler, updates to create-react-app, and the beloved Electron.
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Web Standards, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS from 2017-05-26T19:00
Wes Bos and Mike Taylor joined Alex Sexton this week to talk about Web Standards stuff, compileTo CSS libraries, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS.
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yayQuery Reunion! from 2017-05-02T13:00
In this special episode, it’s a yayQuery podcast reunion. Alex Sexton, Paul Irish, Rebecca Murphey, and Adam Sontag are back for a takeover episode here on JS Party where they catch up on the lates...
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P2P Web, WebRTC, WebTorrent, IPFS, and React VR from 2017-04-25T19:00
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss the P2P web — including WebRTC, WebTorrent, and IPFS. They also get into React and React VR and the project of the week, PouchDB.
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Good Documentation, Non-blocking UI Rendering, Node Community Updates from 2017-04-23T05:30
Tracy Hinds, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss good documentation, API docs, playbooks, Non-blocking UI Rendering, ember-concurrency, React Fiber and updates from Tracy on the Node.js Foundatio...
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VM Neutrality in Node (N-API), Learning JavaScript, Mastodon from 2017-04-14T19:00
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss VM Neutrality in Node.js, learning JavaScript, and Mastodon - the open source friendly alternative to Twitter, et al.
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Web Components and WTF is Shadow DOM? from 2017-04-11T17:00
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss Web Components and questions like — “WTF is Shadow DOM?” and “Are custom elements ready?” We also discuss the JavaScript conference scene as wel...
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JavaScript in Latin America from 2017-03-31T17:45
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and special guest Juan Pablo Buritica discuss all things JavaScript in Latin America. The conferences, the communities, the meetups, JavaScript tooling, and more.
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PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), Service Workers, Time, Glitch from 2017-03-24T17:00
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), Service Workers, and Time in JavaScript. Jenn Schiffer also joined the show to talk about Glitch, our project of th...
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JavaScript Fatigue, AMP, Paths.js from 2017-03-17T15:00
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss JavaScript Fatigue, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and the project of the week Paths.js
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Web Assembly, Higher Education with JavaScript, JS Standards from 2017-03-10T20:00
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss all the details around Web Assembly, and the effects of higher education and JavaScript, and JS Standards.
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Security on the web, Node async/await, AR.js from 2017-03-03T15:00
In this first episode of JS Party, Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss security on the web and how SHA-1 is broken, Node.js v7.6 and async/await, and this week’s featured project A...
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Meet Rachel White from 2017-02-24T15:00
In this show we meet Rachel White, front-end engineer, Tech Evangelist on the DX team at Microsoft, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Rachel shares her fun attitude, her backstory, topics she’s...
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Meet Alex Sexton from 2017-02-24T14:30
In this show we meet Alex Sexton, a front-end infrastructure engineer at Stripe, Modernizr core team member, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Alex shares his backstory, where he’s coming from...
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Meet Mikeal Rogers from 2017-02-24T14:00
In this show we meet Mikeal Rogers, Community Manager for The Node.js Foundation, host of Request For Commits, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Mikeal shares his backstory, where he’s coming f...
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