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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Tejas Kumar joins Jerod & KBall for a wide-ranging convo about React Suspense, human skills, and the four pillars of impact for web engineers. We also discuss the news in “Story of the Week” and give a few quick shout outs to a must-read book and a great new publishing platform for lead devs.

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Featuring:

• Tejas Kumar – Twitter, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• 🎬 Deconstructing React
• Pillars of Impact for Web Engineers
• Xata, the friendly serverless database
• 🎧 JS on WebAssembly
• 🎧 The magic of monorepos

Story of the Week

• Big Changes Ahead for Deno
• Container Queries Shipping in Chrome M105
• Helping the Environment by Saving Two Centuries of Compute Time

Shout Outs!

• 📘 Plays Well with Others
• LeadDev
  • KBall on: How to refactor legacy systems by creating application seams
  • KBall on: Introducing quality ratchets: A tool for managing complex systems
    

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Opener
(01:11) - Sponsor: Square
(02:14) - Intro
(02:58) - Hello, friends!
(03:28) - React Brussels' vibe
(07:56) - Skeptical of throwing promises
(12:58) - Nesting suspense boundaries
(15:04) - Reimplementing a cheap version of React
(18:11) - Sponsor: Raygun
(20:03) - The pillars of impact for web engineers
(23:40) - Human skills
(30:48) - Actionable things for folks
(35:57) - Sponsor: Fly.io
(37:52) - Sponsor: Hasura
(39:54) - Story of the week
(48:48) - KBall's Story of the Week
(51:04) - Teja's Story of the Week
(53:28) - Shoutouts
(57:51) - Goodbye!
(59:21) - Outro