JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Celebrating Eleventy 2.0 🎉

Zach Leatherman returns to the show to discuss his progress over the last year since going full-time on Eleventy, including Eleventy 2.0, the release of WebC, and the state of static site generators. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. KBall Coaching – Free exploratory coaching sessions from JS Party co-host KBall! Click here to get started Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with extended episodes, make the ads disappear, and increment your audio quality with higher bitrate mp3s. Let’s do this! Featuring: Zach Leatherman – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteNick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteChristopher Hiller – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: Going full-time on Eleventy (JS Party #217) Eleventy on YouTube The JavaScript Site Generator Review, 2023 Astro WebC - single file web components is-land Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! Timestamps: (00:00) - It's party time, y'all(00:55) - Welcoming Zach to the show(03:23) - This year in Eleventy(04:49) - New stuff in 2.0(07:59) - Edge functions(13:51) - Vite support(18:57) - Sponsor: KBall Coaching(20:13) - What broke in 2.0(23:56) - Astro & WebC(27:12) - WebC & P.E.(31:36) - Moar on WebC!(34:30) - Sponsor: Changelog++(35:26) - Web components require JS?(37:47) - Moar on web components!(41:07) - Exciting Eleventy 3.0 features(44:16) - What's next for WebC(47:01) - Turning off JS?(50:43) - Nick's TypeScript commission(54:20) - Wrapping up(55:25) - Next up on the pod

Tauri brings Rust to the JS Party

KBall and Nick interview one of the leaders of the Tauri project about this next generation app bundling toolkit: the security, size, and performance features that make it special (and dare we say, better than Electron?), and what’s coming next. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Session Replay! Rewind and replay every step of the user’s journey before and after they encountered an issue. Eliminate the guesswork and get to the root cause of an issue, faster. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. KBall Coaching – Free exploratory coaching sessions from JS Party co-host KBall! Click here to get started Featuring: Daniel Thompson – GitHub, LinkedInKevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteNick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: Tauri Tauri isolation Tauri Discord Awesome Tauri Padloc Galata.app Recut curses Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! Timestamps: (00:00) - Opener(00:21) - Sponsor: Sentry(02:17) - It's party time, y'all(03:12) - Welcoming Daniel(07:57) - Bringing Rust to a JS Party(10:34) - If you've never worked in Rust before(13:13) - Rust + TypeScript(19:57) - Sponsor: KBall Coaching(21:13) - What makes Tauri special(28:02) - Tauri security(33:43) - Tauri performance(38:26) - Tauri power(41:56) - Getting started(46:43) - Getting involved(49:47) - Cool Tauri apps(52:13) - What's coming next(53:55) - Wrapping up(55:10) - Outro

Frontend Feud: CSS Podcast vs @keyframers

Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers David & Shaw from the keyframers. Let’s get it on! Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Session Replay! Rewind and replay every step of the user’s journey before and after they encountered an issue. Eliminate the guesswork and get to the root cause of an issue, faster. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Lolo Code – If you’re familiar with building severless apps, think of Lolo Code as your backend with a visual editor that lets you think and build at the same time. All this without having to provision or manage servers. Use the visual editor to build your app, connect nodes, and add any npm libraries you need. You can even write your own integrations. This makes Lolo Code very Zapier-ish, but for devs. Try it free today with no credit card required at lolo.co/jsparty KBall Coaching – Free exploratory coaching sessions from JS Party co-host KBall! Click here to get started Featuring: Una Kravets – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Argyle – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteDavid Khourshid – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShaw – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHubJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Show Notes: The CSS Podcast the keyframers More dev game shows! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! Timestamps: (00:06) - Sponsor: Sentry(01:55) - It's feud time, y'all!(02:42) - Welcoming our contestants(03:42) - Larry the intern's interview questions(04:38) - How the game works(06:07) - Round 1: Future JS runtime(13:07) - Round 2: Big tech job(19:35) - Sponsor: Lolo Code(21:31) - Round 3: Coding monitors(25:01) - Round 4: Can't code without(33:58) - Round 5: Primary web browser(37:28) - Sponsor: KBall Coaching(38:45) - Round 6: Why write software(45:15) - End Game(46:54) - Interviewing the champs(48:40) - Wrapping up (merch!)(49:47) - Outro (more dev game shows!)

Web development's lost decade

Amal sits down for a one-on-one with Alex Russell, Microsoft Partner on the Edge team, and former Web Standards Tech Lead for Chrome, whose recent post, The Market for Lemons, stirred up a BIG conversation in the web development community. Have we really lost a decade in potential progress? What happened? Where do we go from here? Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Session Replay! Rewind and replay every step of the user’s journey before and after they encountered an issue. Eliminate the guesswork and get to the root cause of an issue, faster. Use the code PARTYTIME and get the team plan free for three months. Lolo Code – If you’re familiar with building severless apps, think of Lolo Code as your backend with a visual editor that lets you think and build at the same time. All this without having to provision or manage servers. Use the visual editor to build your app, connect nodes, and add any npm libraries you need. You can even write your own integrations. This makes Lolo Code very Zapier-ish, but for devs. Try it free today with no credit card required at lolo.co/jsparty KBall Coaching – Free exploratory coaching sessions from JS Party co-host KBall! Click here to get started Featuring: Alex Russell – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAmal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub Show Notes: The Market for Lemons The case for frameworks - a rebuttal post by Laurie Voss A visual for session depth & frequency - a potential rubric for app architecture How Browsers Work Life of a Pixel WebPageTest The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021 Alex’s Blog post on Performance Baseline’s Principal Agent Problem Alex’s talk on Progressive Enhancement @ Chrome Dev Summit React just released experimental support for web Chromium University Vincent Scheib - tweets lots of cool things Summertime Afternoon - a fun little WebGL app which sparks joy Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! Timestamps: (00:00) - Opener(00:27) - Sponsor: Sentry(02:16) - It's party time, y'all(03:12) - Welcoming Alex to the show(04:55) - Getting to know Alex(12:23) - The market for lemons(32:20) - Sponsor: Lolo Code(34:33) - The right architecture(43:41) - Bridging all these gaps(51:47) - Sponsor: KBall Coaching(53:04) - Where to go from here(1:00:19) - The goal is to help users(1:08:52) - We all have skin in the game(1:10:43) - Responding to criticsms(1:13:28) - Learning resources aplenty(1:16:32) - Wrapping up(1:17:06) - Outro (Changelog++ Bonus!)

Generative AI for devs

The panel dives into the current hot topic that is Generative AI. They start by defining it (a surprisingly difficult topic), then go into experiences they’ve had, how to get started working with it as a developer, and where they think it will and will not be useful in the near future. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Lolo Code – If you’re familiar with building severless apps, think of Lolo Code as your backend with a visual editor that lets you think and build at the same time. All this without having to provision or manage servers. Use the visual editor to build your app, connect nodes, and add any npm libraries you need. You can even write your own integrations. This makes Lolo Code very Zapier-ish, but for devs. Try it free today with no credit card required at lolo.co/jsparty Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with extended episodes, make the ads disappear, and increment your audio quality with higher bitrate mp3s. Let’s do this! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteAmelia Wattenberger – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAmal Hussein – Twitter, GitHubNick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: Github Copilot TabNine OpenAI Chat GPT Dall-e-2 Hugging Face GPTZero OpenAI API Houston (Astro docs AI) Someone is wrong on the internet Coded Bias Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! Timestamps: (00:00) - Opener(00:36) - Sponsor: Lolo Code(02:39) - It's party time, y'all(03:29) - Welcome, friends!(05:12) - What even is generative AI?(10:24) - Asking the AI to define itself(11:50) - It boggles the mind(17:21) - Sponsor: Changelog++(18:16) - Today's landscape of AI tools(22:02) - How devs can start playing with AI tools(25:48) - Poking at the boundaries(29:58) - Training on Nick's face(35:47) - Challenges & gotchas(38:14) - Where we are & where we're headed(44:39) - Thinking fast and slow(51:41) - Bias concerns(53:32) - What we're excited to see(56:48) - Wrapping up(58:35) - Outro