The Web Platform Podcast

To say the way we use and write JavaScript has evolved since the launch of ES2015 is an understatement. Atomics, TypedArrays, globalThis, and function generators are just a few ways JavaScript has grown up to meet the needs of a growing web platform. But it's not just language that has evolved, it's our entire toolchain as we have come to rely on compiled JavaScript as the "new normal". Join for a very special episode of The Web Platform podcast as we discuss all this and more with our invited expert on all things ECMA - Jordan Harband at OpenJS World 2020. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/201-evolution-of-modern-javascript-live-@-openjs-world-2020 Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Episode 200 marks the return of Amal Hussein back to the panel! Amal, Danny, and Erik chat with Fred K. Schott about Pika, Snowpack, and the future of web development and tooling. Snowpack is an innovative approach to creating fast dev environments without crazy reloading times and complications. That is only the tip of the iceberg for Pika. A plethora of tools for modern web development is here and ready for you. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/200-pika-and-snowpack   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Deno is a secure runtime for JavaScript & TypeScript created by the creator of Node.js (Ryan Dahl). David Else, software developer at Else Web Development, has been working with the project for a while aND talks with Danny and Erik about the latest Deno release. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/199-deno   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

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Dave Rupert, podcaster and web developer, talks with us about modern HTML practices. In a world full of JavaScript where does HTML & CSS fit in? What are the roles of Web Components and web standards? Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/197-modern-html   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

It is a “wild web” out there and with all the complicated tooling and frameworks for web developers building web applications can be complex and obtuse. Chris Ferdinandi talks about simplifying our developer experience while focusing on the end user. Chris is a teacher, author, and practical web developer who "believes there's a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web." Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/196-lean-web-dev   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Brian Kardell, Developer Relations at Igalia, talks us through specs and features in standards and why those get prioritized or deprioritized. What is the ‘special sauce' that goes into getting a feature pushed into standards and then implemented across browsers? What can developers do to get a better idea of these features and when to expect them in browsers. Also, how can developers contribute to these features? Brian has been working a long time in the developer community and browser standards. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/195-platforms-and-priorities   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

For a lot of software developers running code in separate threads is a common tool to reach for. On the web they are not nearly as widely used but can be just as powerful. Join us this week as Surma talks us through just how useful workers can be and some of the challenges they can help developers solve. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/194-off-the-main-thread   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

What is a web developer toolchain? It seems that, like most web development questions, it depends on many factors. There are build tools, testing, CI, and much more. Danny and Erik go through some of their current tools they use for development and explain how these have evolved over time. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/193-modern-web-toolchains   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

In 2019, when developers think of Ionic and particularly the Ionic Framework they might think of Angular and Stencil. What about that VDOM thing called React? That's on the other side of web developers minds...right? Actually…..it's everywhere and now it's part of Ionic. Mike Hartington (@mhartington) joins The Web Platform podcast again. This time Mike discusses Ionic's latest incarnation of its framework using powerful React Components. React developers only need to know React and a few extra bits. Listen in to get the gritty details and some news on upcoming Ionic ventures as well. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/192-ionic-and-react-are-friends Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Web component have been a favorite topic here on the Web Platform Podcast for a while now. After years of waiting Web components finally seem like they are ready for prime time. Browser support is great and only getting better and more and more frameworks have an excellent inter-op story. Join us this week as we chat with Ben Farrell all about how web components may have finally arrived. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/191-the-state-of-webcomponents   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

As a treat for the start of your summer Angular is has a new major release. Angular version 8 brings some exciting features to both the core libraries as well as the Angular CLI. Stephen Fluin joins us this week to talk all about what is new in Angular version 8 as well as a tiny bit about what is coming for Angular in future. Pull up a lawn chair, crack a beverage and enjoy learning about Angular. (unless the weather is bad or it isn't summer where you live) Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/190-all-the-angular   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

VSCode has become incredibly popular, very quickly. We're joined this week by Ahmad Awais, the creator of vscode.pro and the insanely popular VSCode theme Shades of Purple and learn about the VSCode extension ecosystem and how beneficial it can be to have your editor written with the technologies you know and love. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/189-developing-with-vscode   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Kyle Simpson, the author of the extremely popular "You Don't Know JS?" book series has been a JavaScript developer for 20 years which is a long time considering JavaScript is only 24. Join us this week and witness Kyles obvious passion for the language, hear about his past experiences (like creating a compiler with PHP) and what it's like to be part of the JS community from the beginning. Visit the website for This Week in Web, 15% off conference tickets, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/188-you-dont-know-js?   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Get an update on everything that is happening in the wonderful world of WebRTC. WebRTC powers a staggering number of applications most of us use every day and has some exciting use cases you probably never even thought of. As a developer WebRTC is certainly one of those technologies you should be taking a look at. In this weeks episode get the latest from one of WebRTCs leading authorities Tsahi Levent-Levi. Check out This Week in Web for a 15% discount on Amsterdam JSNation conference tickets! Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/187-an-update-on-webrtc   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

We all got here somehow. This week Danny Blue and Leon Revill share how they got into web development. The web is a big place so how did those who do this as a career end up here? Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/186-how-did-you-get-into-web-development? Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Houdini is a set of specs and APIs which expose low-level CSS capabilities allowing developers to break the mould and capitalize on performance gains. Surma who is a web advocate at Google joins us this week to enlighten us on the use-cases and capabilities of these APIs and how they are going to impact the web. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/185-houdini   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Finding documentation about the web and its various platform APIs used to be a fragmented experienced across a wide range of sites with not quite the right information. When all hope seemed lost, Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs became the clearinghouse for not only Mozilla related docs but also the web in general. In this episode, we talk with Mozilla's Ali Spivak (@Ali Spivak) and Kadir Topal (@atopal), as well as MDN Product Advisory Board member and ex-Mozilla/current Googler Robert Nyman (@robertnyman) about the ongoing growth of MDN and how the browser vendors and developers alike are beginning to bring better web platform documentation to all. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/184-mdn-web-docs   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Since Visual Studio Code burst onto the code editor scene, the steady improvements have made a number of web-related development tasks easier to handle. In this episode, we speak with web standards contributor and PM on the Visual Studio Code Kenneth Auchenberg (@auchenberg) on a wide range of topics. From VS Code's beginnings and current open source model, to Kenneth's recent experiments with Chrome headless in VS Code via browser-preview extension, this is an episode not to miss. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/183-visual-studio-code Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

With an ever-expanding array of devices, connectivity, and growing usage in new markets, the need for web performance has never been stronger. Beyond single testing for a given metric, how do you achieve and monitor your progress? To help us learn more about performance, Ben Schwarz (@benschwarz), founder of Calibre, joins us to discuss various facets of web performance, how monitoring can help achieve your goals, and just why he thinks performance budgets aren't an end-all solution for most developers. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/182-calibre-and-web-performance-monitoring Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

For many developers, design can be a mystifying topic. For many designers, writing code isn't their daily task. In this episode designer and developer Erik Kennedy walks through common approaches and talks about who designers and developers can better work together to bring forth happiness inducing products. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/181-learning-design Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

web.dev is a new developer resource released at Chrome Dev Summit last year to help developers with topics such as fast load times, network resilience, SEO and more. With integrated lighthouse, the automated performance auditing tool, it can analyse your sites and provide deep insight into what you can do to improve. Join us this week with Rob Dodson to talk all about how web.dev came about, why it is so important, all its great features and what could be coming in the future. Oh! and listen for a chance to WIN a FREE ticket to React Amsterdam, the largest React conference worldwide! Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/180-webdev   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Voice interfaces are more common than ever and devices like the Google Home and Amazon's Echo are becoming deeply ingrained in our day-to-day lives. This week we talk about developing for voice both for the web and beyond. We discuss how developing voice-based applications differs from traditional UI based applications and the challenges involved. Dustin Coates shares plenty of tips and resources to help you get stuck into developing for voice. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/179-developing-for-voice   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week we cover many of the great things announced at Chrome Dev Summit 2018. We talk about some of the exciting new things coming to the web, the new resource for web developers (web.dev) how the Squoosh app brings together all of the latest modern best practices including web workers, web assembly and PWA techniques to deliver a great experience and Justin opens with a priceless Santa impression - what more could you need to kick off your December? Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/178-chrome-dev-summit-recap   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Tyler McGinnis joins us this week to talk about the importance of community outreach, how he got into teaching and what keeps him going. We talk about how publishing content like blog posts and other training material can generate exciting opportunities and learn how Tyler makes a living doing what he loves without the need for complicated marketing campaigns. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/177-community-outreach   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Feeling empowered to design on the web can be a challenge. With the recently demoed Project VisBug by Adam Argyle (@argyleink) at Chrome Dev Summit, that's changing. VisBug allows any website to become an artboard to be shaped, allowing designers and developers alike a new set of freedom to find joy with designing on the web. In this episode, we dive into the challenges of designing for the web, how VisBug helps alleviate some of the pain points, and just what's next for the latest in punk rock web development tools. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/176-visbug   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Gatsby brings together React, Webpack and modern JavaScript in a way that makes a performant experience the default experience. In this weeks episode join us with Jason Lengstorf and learn how Gatsby can do this and some of the other great products that Gatsby are working on. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/175-gatsby   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Brave is a modern browser that puts the user first. This week learn all about Brave, find out why it's faster than Chrome and Safari and how it uses blockchain technology to pay users for their attention and content creators for their work. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/174-brave-browser   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Nuxt.js is a framework for creating Vue.js applications, you can choose between Universal, Static Generated or Single Page application. Vue.js has exploded in popularity and along with it, some excellent tools have been created. This week on the Web Platform podcast our hosts chat with Sébastien Chopin (@Atinux) to learn about Nuxt.js, the challenges of universal applications and how Nuxt.js can help. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/173-nuxtjs   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Babel, a build tool that has enabled web developers to build tomorrows JavaScript today, has finally hit it's version 7 release. It's been a long 3 years and Henry Zhu (@left_pad) along with the Babel core team have a lot to share with us. In this episode, Henry discusses the process of building Babel 7 as well as the new features we have long awaited from TypeScript integration to Macros and much more. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/172-behind-the-scenes-of-babel-7 Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

CSS can seem like magic sometimes, but it really isn't! Join us with Aimee Knight and take an in-depth look at how the browser actually uses CSS. We talk about performance, hardware acceleration, debugging CSS issues, common pitfalls and all the things to make working with CSS easier. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/171-css-indepth   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week learn why performance testing is so important, how to sell it to the business and which are Justin's favourite tools for getting the job done. Performance testing is a big topic but it's never been easier to get started thanks to simple and easy to use tools. Justin has considerable experience in this area and he shares his methodology and experience so we can all get started to ensure the apps and sites we build are fast and provide a top-notch user experience. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/170-performance-testing-tools   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week we talk about Customized Built-in Elements, part of the Custom Elements specification which hasn't had as much attention as other parts of the Web Component specs. Customized Built-in Elements allow developers to extend native DOM elements and add additional functionality. In this episode learn all about how they work, what benefits they provide and some practical use-cases along with a discussion on browser support for this exciting feature of the platform. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/169-extending-the-dom-with-web-components   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week we discuss the important topic of SEO and how JavaScript impacts what search bots are able to crawl on your sites. Learn what developers can do to improve SEO for their sites which rely on JavaScript along with some tips and tricks from SEO expert Tomasz Rudzki. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/168-javascript-seo   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Alex Russell has been around, he has seen some things, and now he wants to share it with us! Come join our hosts as we dive into Alex's background and learn how he came to hold some of his views on many things. Browsers, JavaScript and web frameworks, he has insight into all of these things and many more on this week's episode. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/167-pwas-with-alex-russell   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week our panel chats with Ada Rose Cannon (@lady_ada_king) all about Samsung Internet. Haven't heard of Samsung Internet? You may not be alone but that doesn't mean there aren't some very cool things happening. Learn more about how Samsung is contributing back to the community as well as some very cool hardware integrations on this week's episode of the Web Platform Podcast. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/166--samsung-internet   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Join Danny, Leon, and Amal for a discussion on unit testing modern web applications. Amal has recently taught a pilot testing workshop in Boston with Gleb from Cypress who was on the show last week. She is excited to evangelize the importance of unit testing. Unit tests are the vegetables of the JavaScript world - cooked properly, they are absolutely delicious, and you'll never want to stop eating them! Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/165-js-unit-testing-tools-best-practices   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Guests Brian Mann and Gleb Bahmutov join our hosts to discuss Cypress, and open source test runner that's built for the modern web. With fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser, the show discusses how cypress utilizes the platform and the ease of use for end developers. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/164-cypressio   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week on the Web Platform Podcast our panel talks with Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) and Ben Lesh (@BenLesh) about RxJS. We find out just what these fancy sounding Observables are and how they help solve problems. Our panel and guests also discuss the importance of documentation in open source and good ways to start contributing. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/163-rxjs   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week on the Web Platform Podcast our panel chats about WebAssembly and the future of the web. What exactly is WebAssembly? Is it a replacement for JavaScript? Do I need to learn C++ if I want to use it? Sooooo many questions about this very cool technology. Come listen to Thomas Nattestad and Ben Smith give answers to all of these questions and many more! Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/162-webassembly   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week on the Web Platform Podcast Amal, Danny & Justin talk with Michael Jackson about his project UNPKG and how it can help make front-end development easier. Our panel also chats about the current state of front-end tooling including the JavaScript module spec and how things have led up to where it is now. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/161-unpkg   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Ng-conf has happened! There were a bunch of excellent talks and and excellent people. Jeff Whelpley was one of them! Jeff helps us dive into what is coming in Angular. Angular 6, the new Angular CLI, RxJs 6 and more! There is a ton to unpack in this week's episode. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/160-ngconf-2018   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week we chat with lit-html creator Justin Fagnani. Lit-html is a framework agnostic library that uses new JavaScript features to efficiently render HTML templates. In this episode, you'll learn what lit-html is in detail and why it was created. We compare the lit-html approach to VDOM in terms of performance and also how it compares to JSX structurally. We also discuss some of the upcoming proposals for standardising HTML template instantiation. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/159-lithtml-html-templates-via-javascript-template-literals   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

The world of web standards can be complicated and confusing, Jory Burson joins us to help make things clearer! We discuss the different standards organisations, why standards are important and why it's good for developers to get involved. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/158-a-developers-guide-into-the-world-of-web-standards   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Ionic has focused on Angular for many years, but the recent move to Web Components has opened up new and exciting framework agnostic possibilities. Leon, Danny and Justin talk to Mike Hartington from Ionic about this and a new project called Capacitor a cross-platform API for building desktop, mobile and progressive-web apps. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/157-crossplatform-development-with-ionic-and-capacitor Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

In the past few years React has become a mainstay in the front end development community and React 16 has more to offer than ever. This week our hosts chat with Andrew Clark of the React core team about some of React's history as well as some of the new exciting things in React 16 and beyond. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/156-react-16-fiber-and-beyond   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Infrastructure is hard, that is one of the big reasons "the cloud" has become such a popular option, but it can still be difficult. As the website says: "WeDeploy helps you build from simple to complex applications. We give you predefined services that can speed up your development process." Our hosts welcome back Zeno Rocha and discuss the platform, what it can do and how it can improve your process. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/155-wedeploy   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

Modern web development has a lot of cool stuff, but that cool stuff can come at a cost. Getting a development environment set up can be a task even for folks that know what they are doing. Enter StackBlitz, a way to get up and running with Angular, Ionic or React (with others on the way). This week our hosts talk to Eric Simons about the benefits of such a platform as well as some of the challenges with building it. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/154-stackblitz   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week we are joined by Patrick Kettner to find out what's new with Microsoft Edge. We ask about Web Component support, speak about the PWA story for Edge and learn a lot about how browsers decide which specifications to implement next. Also, find out what the Edge team are doing to improve DevTools and the development experience. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/153-microsoft-edge-in-2018   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

You've seen the ads, you've heard the name, now let's take a dive into all things Firefox and Firefox Quantum. Our hosts talk with Matthew Claypotch about where Firefox is and where it is going in the future. Web Components, Progressive Web apps and performance improvements are only some of the things you can expect to hear about this week on the Web Platform Podcast. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/152-firefox-whats-new-whats-coming-in-2018   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.

This week Justin, Danny, and Leon talk about what they think is going to be important for the web in 2018. We talk about AI and an interesting experiment Danny has got involved with along with Leon's excitement for customized built-in elements an unadopted part of the Custom Elements spec. PWA's is a big topic where we talk about what this means for native app-store apps and we finish by sharing what we hope for in 2018. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/151-crystal-ball-fortunes-in-2018   Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.