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The live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript and the Web
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Wednesday Dec 30, 2015
Wednesday Dec 30, 2015
Description:
Functional programming have been greatly facilitated with ES6. We're going to talk about the how and why of functional programming and immutable design patterns in JavaScript.
Show sponsors:
- Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
- Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
- {Track:js} - JavaScript Error Monitoring
Links, Picks, and Tips:
Brian Lonsdorf
- Links: A Modern Architecture for FP and Crazy FP words tweet
- Tips: Watch Dan's Redux videos, Experiment with ramda, immutable.js, and the Maybe Functor, and If you want to read the white papers, checkout The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming
- Picks: ForwardJS Feb 10th @Regency Ballroom SF
Kyle Simpson
- Tips: Rediscover devtools in Firefox, you’ll be pleasantly surprised -- specifically WebIDE/Valence and CSS Transforms Previewer
- Picks: JavaScript Allongé (book) by @raganwald, Kris Jenkins’ blog posts on FP: Part 1, Part 2, The FP side of async programming, and Concurrency’s future on the web
Kent C. Dodds
- Tips: Try a standing desk
- Picks: Lowes, The ES2016 Pipe Operator, and Learn JavaScript Arrays in Depth
Lin Clark
- Tips: When running git checkout, using '-' as the argument (git checkout -) takes you back to the branch you were last on, hub makes it easier to work with github on the command line. Tab completion is especially helpful, and fetch all PRs if you do a lot of PR reviews, this can be really helpful. It downloads all new PRs as branches whenever you fetch
- Picks: Jessica Kerr - Functional Principles In React
About JavaScript Air:
JavaScriptAir is the live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript hosted by egghead.io instructor Kent C. Dodds. Please visit the JavaScript Air website (javascriptair.com) to see upcoming and past episodes. Also be sure to follow JavaScript Air on Twitter and Google+ to stay up to date with future episodes. Also, all episodes are on the YouTube channel as well.
Wednesday Dec 23, 2015
Wednesday Dec 23, 2015
Description:
Tons of people use Babel. With the release of Babel 6, it is now a language platform as well as a transpiler. Join us as we talk about the ecosystem of Babel plugins, ASTs, and all of the neat stuff that you can do with this amazing tool with some of the core contributors to the project.
Show sponsors:
- Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
- Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
- {Track:js} - JavaScript Error Monitoring
Links, Picks, and Tips:
Henry Zhu
- Links: JSCS and Sebastian’s JSConf Talk
- Picks: AST Explorer and babel-eslint
Amjad Masad
- Links: Meteor Fibers
- Tips: Use interface-like design and dependency injection for testing and Promises / async functions
- Picks: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Emacs, and repl.it
Logan Smyth
- Tips: Join us on the Babel Slack
Kent C. Dodds
- Links: Why is Babel a Monorepo? and The Babel Plugin Handbook
- Tips: Create dev tools for your work project. and Look into babel loose mode
- Picks: Misunderstanding ES6 Modules, Upgrading Babel, tears, and a solution, Clearing up the Babel 6 Ecosystem, and Google Music
Pam Selle
- Tips: Take some time to reflect on the past year/2015, Jessica Paoli recently published hers.
- Picks: Advent of code
About JavaScript Air:
JavaScriptAir is the live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript hosted by egghead.io instructor Kent C. Dodds. Please visit the JavaScript Air website (javascriptair.com) to see upcoming and past episodes. Also be sure to follow JavaScript Air on Twitter and Google+ to stay up to date with future episodes. Also, all episodes are on the YouTube channel as well.
Thursday Dec 17, 2015
Thursday Dec 17, 2015
Description:
Ashley and Kyle know a thing or two about teaching JavaScript. These two wonderful people will jump on and chat with us about learning and developing this wonky language called JavaScript.
Show sponsors:
- Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
- Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
- {Track:js} - JavaScript Error Monitoring
Links, Picks, and Tips:
Ashley G. Williams
- Links: If you wish to learn ES6 from scratch you must first invent the universe at JSconf2015 and Breakfast Repo
- Tips: Investigate the programming languages you use as tools and Learn about different programming paradigms and translate side projects into them
- Picks: Javascript Allonge, Hello Declarative World!my ES6 implementation, Simple Made Easy, Rich Hickey, and Growing a Language, Guy Steele
Kyle Simpson
- Links: MakerSquare, Build Your Own Angular, BannerFrom NAND to Tetris, and Thunder Plains Conference
- Tips: Give yourself deadlines to learn stuff (talk to give or blog to post) and Unplug and sharpen the ax
- Picks: David Nolen (cognicast episode), BlissfulJS, and ES6 & Beyond
Brian Lonsdorf
- Tips: Start procedural => Learn OO => Learn FP
- Picks: Jared Tobin Recursive Types and Hard Jones’ Computational Effects
Kent C. Dodds
- Tips: Contribute to Open Source (What open source project should I contribute to?)
- Picks: Slides.com and TodoMVC
Lin Clark
- Tips: ESLint use it! To start using it on large codebases, add all files to
.eslintignoreand then tackle files one by one. This cuts down on the number of collisions with other PRs. Look for additional plugins, like the React ESLint plugin, and you can create your own - Picks: Async & Performance (plus the whole YDKJS series) and Understanding ES6
About JavaScript Air:
JavaScriptAir is the live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript hosted by egghead.io instructor Kent C. Dodds. Please visit the JavaScript Air website (javascriptair.com) to see upcoming and past episodes. Also be sure to follow JavaScript Air on Twitter and Google+ to stay up to date with future episodes. Also, all episodes are on the YouTube channel as well.
Wednesday Dec 09, 2015
Wednesday Dec 09, 2015
Description:
Kicking off JavaScript Air with our first guest Brendan Eich (original creator of JavaScript) to talk about the past, present, and future of JavaScript.
Show sponsors:
- Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
- Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
- {Track:js} - JavaScript Error Monitoring
Links, Picks, and Tips:
Brendan Eich
- Links: Brave
- Tips: Learn JavaScript
- Picks: JavaScript Code Smells
Dan Abramov: No links, tips, or picks this week
Brian Lonsdorf
- Tips: Try elm and wait for the video from this
- Picks: JSJabber about PureScript
Kyle Simpson
- Picks: Hour of Code
Kent C. Dodds
- Tips: Learn JavaScript with MDN
- Picks: plop, Christmas Lights, and Forward Web Summit
Iheanyi Ekechukwu: No links, tips, or picks this week
Lin Clark
- Tips: Dead code elimination (in Webpack)
- Picks: Dan Abramov's Redux videos on egghead.io and Ancillary Justice
Matt Zabriskie
- Links: Matt's beard on Twitter
- Tips: Use the future of JavaScript with Babel
- Picks: gl-react
Tyler McGinnis
- Tips: Find people smarter than you and copy what they do.
- Picks: Flexbox Foggy
About JavaScript Air:
JavaScriptAir is the live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript hosted by egghead.io instructor Kent C. Dodds. Please visit the JavaScript Air website (javascriptair.com) to see upcoming and past episodes. Also be sure to follow JavaScript Air on Twitter and Google+ to stay up to date with future episodes. Also, all episodes are on the YouTube channel as well.