JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Going full-time on Eleventy

Zach Leatherman recently announced he will now be working on Eleventy – his simpler static site generator – while continuing to work at Netlify. What makes Eleventy special? How’d he convince Netlify to let him to this? What does it mean for the project’s future? How many questions in a row can we type into this textarea? Tune in to find out!

Enabling performance-centric engineering orgs

This week Amal and Nick are joined by Dan Shappir, a Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance, to learn about enabling a performance-first mindset within your engineering org. Dan recently left his 7+ year tenure leading performance at Wix where he and his team improved, and monitored the speed of millions of websites around the world. Join us to how he helped lead a cultural transformation that led to Wix which resulted in being faster than most other React apps in the wild - including frameworks like Next.js.

Remix helps bridge the network chasm

Kent and our panelists dive deep on the hottest new React framework: Remix. What it does today, what makes it special, how it lured Kent away from a lucrative independent teaching career, and what’s coming up next.

Vitest && Slidev

Anthony Fu && Matias “Patak” Capeletto from the Vite core team join Jerod && Nick to discuss Vitest – a blazing fast unit-test framework powered by Vite, && Slidev – presentation slides for developers.

Playing it close to the Vest

Holla! This week we’re playing Story of the Week and Today I Learned before turning our focus to Vest – a very cool validations framework created by Evyatar Alush.