Shows
The Frontside Podcast115: Testing Issues and BigTest SolutionsIn this internal episode, Charles and Wil talk about testing issues and BigTest solutions. Pieces of the testing story are discussed, such as the start and launch
application, component setup and teardown, interacting with the application and component, convergent assertions, and network. Then they talk about testing issues: the fact that cross browser and device-simulated browsers are not good enough, maintainability and when and when not to DRY (RYE), slowness and why (acceptance) testing is slow, portability and why tests are coupled to the framework, and reliability. Finally, they talk about BigTest solutions:
@bigtest/cli to start...2018-11-2950 min
The Frontside Podcast111: Accessibility in Single Page ApplicationsIn this episode, Robert, Charles, and Wil talk about the whys and hows of accessibility, as well as what makes single page applications special, why they are they harder for accessibility, and frameworks that can do this for you.
Resources:
#SkyQ app on #iOS from a #VoiceOver user's Perspective
Rob's Routing Doc
Wil's PR
Single Page Apps routers are broken
Greater Than Code Episode #92: A11y Ally with Rob DeLuca
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
Transcript:
ROBERT: Hello everyone. Welcome to The Frontside Podcast...2018-09-2053 min
The Frontside Podcast108: Running an Online-Only, Free Conference on Twitch with Kristian FreemanIn this episode, Kristian Freeman tells us about ByteConf React: why he decided to start the conference, unique challenges of putting an online conference together, what he expects in terms of viewership and his hope for sponsors, and supporting speakers who haven’t recorded videos or maybe haven't ever even given a talk before.
ByteConf will take place on Friday, August 31, 2018! Grab your ticket!
References:
Twitter
Facebook
Twitch
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
TRANSCRIPT:
ROBERT: Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode #108 of The Fr...2018-08-0956 min
The Frontside Podcast103: React Components with Michael JacksonIn this episode, Michael Jackson of React Training and Rob DeLuca and Taras Mankovski of The Frontside talk about what is a component, and what a component is specifically in the context of React.
They also discuss when it stops being a component and becomes something larger, how it has changed the way we develop UI, and thoughts on container and presentational components being synonyms for controller and view.
References
The Tweet that started it all
Wil Wilsman: Does my application work in real life?
Do you have opinions on this show? Want...2018-06-1548 min
The Frontside Podcast090: Big Testing in JavaScriptHow do we ensure a high level of quality and maximize the refactorability of our code? Frontsiders, Wil and Charles, talk about their battle tested techniques for testing web applications, not only in React JS, but in any JavaScript framework.
Links
Acceptance Testing
Integration Testing
jest
Cypress.io
Assertion
Ember CLI Mirage
mirage-server
react-trigger-change
Transcript
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 90. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at The Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. And with me today is Mr. Wil Wilsman. Wil, who just got back...2017-11-3035 min
The Frontside Podcast089: glimmer-redux with Toran BillupsToran Billups: @toranb | GitHub | Blog
Toran Billips joined us for an insightful conversation regarding glimmer-redux: Predictable state management for Glimmer apps.
Resources:
Glimmer Redux Demystified
Talk from Tom Dale on glimmer internals (contrast with Preact made in this talk)
ember-redux
Glimmer progress report that mentions the migration to Glimmer 0.8 (Big Changes)
Blog post following EmberConf 2017 that announced GlimmerJS (for the Ember dev)
The Frontside Podcast 086: Routing in Ember with Alex Matchneer
An ember-rideshare Blog Post
A Rollup plugin for glimmer-redux
RollupJS
Transcript
ELRICK: Hello and welcome to another Frontside Podcast, Episode 89...2017-11-1639 min
The Frontside Podcast069: Redux Part II with Toran BillupsToran Billups @toranb | GitHub | Blog
Show Notes:
01:44 - New Developments in ember-redux
04:23 - New Developments in the Wider Redux Community
06:26 - Using Redux in Ember
09:40 - Omit
10:45 - Reducers
25:42 - Fulfilling the Role of Middleware in Ember
28:12 - Ember Data in Redux-land
31:24 - What does Toran do with this stuff??
Links:
The Frontside Podcast Episode 55: Redux and Ember with Toran Billups
The Frontside Podcast Episode 18: Back-End Devs and Bridging the Stack with Toran Billups
redux-offline
ember-redux-yelp
create-react-app
"Mega Simple redux” Twiddle
ember-concurrency
Thomas Chen: ember-redux
The Frontside Podcast Episode 067: ember-concurrency with Alex Matchneer
normalizr
Ri...2017-05-1140 min