Fundamentals all the way down

Austin Gil returns to JS Party, bringing a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of file uploads. Brace for an insightful session as we navigate the complexities of this key JavaScript topic together, much like a dedicated coach drilling the fundamentals into his team!

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Featuring:

• Austin Gil – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• JS Party #243
• File Upload
• Angular
• React
• Solid
• Austin’s blog post series on file uploads
• 200 MDN
• Austin Gil on file uploads
• Amazon S3
• Akamai
• Cloudflare R2

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's party time, y'all
(00:40) - Hoy hoy!
(02:24) - What Austin's been up to
(06:31) - Sportsball analogies
(20:58) - File uploads client-side
(23:24) - HTTP fundamentals
(31:06) - theannoyingsite.com
(33:24) - Browsers representing users
(35:47) - File uploads server-side
(40:39) - Streaming vs serializing
(49:22) - Painting the bigger picture
(49:58) - On object storage
(53:56) - Getting files into object storage
(57:22) - Scanning for malware
(1:02:44) - Talkin' CDNs
(1:05:33) - Callin' in the closer
(1:05:58) - Next up on the pod