Real Talk JavaScript

Mobile developer export Nathan Walker discusses how he uses NativeScript to build mobile apps with a native feel.

Jen Luker joins John and Dan, to discuss why how the role of Web accessibility.

John and Ward discuss why developers might consider mobile and mobile Web. They dive into what some of the challenges are and how Ionic fits into the story with Mike Hartington!

John and Ward talk with core RxJS team member, Tracy Lee. Tracy shares the direction of RxJS, who is using it, and some inside tips on how to learn RxJS and common pitfalls.

Tierney Cyren talks with John and Ward about all things Node and how to use it in production.

John, Dan and Ward talk with Rob Wormald about his views on where Custom Web Components are heading. Rob talks about Polymer, web components, how Angular and other frameworks approach web components, and where he thinks we should all head.

John and Ward talk with Sam Julien about how he approaches upgrade to Angular and other JavaScript applications. Sam spent the last few years at a non-profit with a series of refactors and migrations/rewrites with his team. For example: - Rewriting the C# API, first to unit of work (complete rewrite), then refactoring to CQRS - Adding ES6, followed by TypeScript, to the AngularJS front ends - Migrating the front ends from Gulp to Webpack and from Bower to npm - ngUpgrade (still in process when I left) - Determining whether to update to Webpack 4 or move to the CLI later - Several large data structure refactor projects initiated by the business that affected the entire stack (from SQL to Angular) They had to evaluate the risk of maintenance vs the risk of updating vs the risk of rewriting. They used a mix of determining the business impact, the technical debt, and developing proof of concepts to figure this out each time. I feel like this is a constant issue teams face, especially smaller teams that are not working for software companies (though software companies, of course, do this as well, but are perhaps more driven by end-user needs/sales).

John, Ward, and Dan talk with Filipe Silva about OSS, github, and the culture of communication among developers.

John, Ward, and Dan talk with Maxim Salnikov about his experience as PWA expert. Maxim discusses what they are and when he uses them, along with browser support, and how he uses service workers. Maxim shares a lot of tips on building and debugging PWAs that you don't want to miss.

John and Ward talk with Dan Wahlin about how he approaches and finds value in end to end testing tools. Dan discusses what brought him to end to end tests and his experience with Cypress.io and Protractor.

John and Ward talk with Aysegül Yönet about creating visualizations with D3. You got data, now what? How do you visualize that in your apps? How do your users make the most of that data to make business decisions? Find out more with D3 expert Aysegül Yönet to learn more.

John and Ward talk to Brian Holt about his experiences scaling react and other javascript based applications. Brian discusses the roles that the human element, dev ops, linting, building, the libraries themselves and state management play in scaling javascript, based on his experiences at Reddit, LinkedIn and Netflix.

Welcome to Real Talk JavaScript, the weekly talk-show with advice and insight into the technologies and practices currently being used to build web applications in the real world. Each week, John Papa and Ward Bell will be talking to industry experts about their experiences writing, deploying, and maintaining web applications in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.