JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Jerod is joined by KBall, Nick & Amy to throw one last JS Party! We review last year’s predictions, discuss the state of the web dev world, opine on coding AIs (of course) & divulge what comes next for the JS Party crew. Thank you for partying with us all these years! 💚

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• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Amy Dutton – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• The Dysfunctonal Developer
• Changelog & Friends

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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, and Feross chat with Nick about the entire process and what he learned along the way. Oh, we also play an epic round of Pro Tip Time!

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• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Nick’s talk at React Global Online Summit
• Our Quiz Game repo on GitHub
• JS Party #191 on XState
• Don’t check in broken code
• Conventional Comments
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Elon Musk is buying Twitter. I’m buying JavaScript.

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KBall takes another dive into recent hot topics around reactivity and build systems, this time with three members of the Ember core team. They also talk about some of the reasons why the Ember community has been so long lived, how thinking about upgradeability leads to universality, and how features first built specifically for frameworks make their way into the language specification or universal libraries.

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• Chris Manson – Website, GitHub, X
• Chris Thoburn – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Edward Faulkner – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Angular moves fast without breaking things
• Should web development need a build step?
• Embroider
• EmberData

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Back at React Summit in New York, KBall & Nick sat down with Tom Occhino & Shruti Kapoor for more fascinating conversations.

Tom Occhino, a key figure in React’s history at Facebook (now Meta), reveals the origin story of React, which began when an ads engineer presented a revolutionary approach to web UI rendering. The discussion extends to React’s evolution through Next.js.

Then, Shruti Kapoor breaks down React 19’s major features, including React Server Components (RSC), the new compiler implementation, and enhanced APIs that promise to streamline development workflows.

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• Shruti Kapoor – Website, GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• React.js: The Documentary
• React 19 RC

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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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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Astro 3.0
• Vercel official hosting provider of Astro
• Python in Excel

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