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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

OSS developer Jessica Sachs joins Jerod & Kball to discuss re-launching and maintaining Faker.js after it was abandoned last January, Component Driven Development & Neopets!

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Featuring:

• Jessica Sachs – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Open source developer corrupts his own files, impacting millions
• 🎧 JS Party #210: What’s in your package.json?
• Component Driven User Interfaces
• The Neopets HTML Guide
• Histoire - A new way to write stories
• Svelte Summit 2022
• 🎧 JS Party #148: Thank you, Dr. Bahmutav!

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Opener
(00:34) - Sponsor: Retool
(01:26) - Intro
(02:06) - Welcome
(02:59) - Faker.js
(16:46) - Sponsor: Sourcegraph
(19:49) - Component Testing
(34:21) - Sponsor: Raygun
(36:08) - Neopets!
(39:42) - Moar Component Testing
(43:58) - Angular Party
(45:37) - JS for everything
(49:43) - JS is like the USA?
(50:47) - Excited for confs again!
(52:01) - KBall not quite ready
(54:29) - Goodbye!
(55:29) - Outro
(58:03) - The Breaks!