Frontend First

Sam and Ryan talk about their experience building the headlessui.dev website with the folks from Tailwind Labs. They chat about the team’s deadline-driven development process, some new Figma workflow…

Sam and Ryan talk about how visual design typically drives frontend app development, and whether or not this implies that frontend development should drive backend development in a similar way. They …

Sam and Ryan discuss building a library with TSDX, as well as some hiccups they ran into with node’s module resolution algorithm. They also talk about how even though Tailwind and Bootstrap are both …

Sam and Ryan discuss how loading states, data fetching, and skeleton screens can change the architecture of an SSG application. They also talk about Apollo’s cache and various query re-fetching strat…

Ryan shares his first impressions using Supabase and talks about a new app he’s building to manage users in Hasura. Sam talks about how to responsibly go outside of React’s rendering cycle when using…

Ryan shares his experience setting up authentication in a new project with Sam. They also discuss some of the tradeoffs that client apps face when consuming raw JSON vs. passing data through a model …

Sam tells Ryan about what he’s been learning using the React Use Gesture and Framer Motion libraries to build an Image Cropper for his YouTube series. They also chat about their first impressions of …

Ryan tells Sam about an image uploading solution he built for one of his Next.js apps. They discuss how Next.js's integrated frontend and backend allow for much more convenient packages, and they bra…

Sam and Ryan talk about whether GraphQL affects the architecture of an app, and what sort of UI code a well-implemented GraphQL server can replace. They also talk about Sam's experience working on a …

Sam and Ryan talk about how frontend and backend frameworks are converging towards similar UI patterns and developer experiences, even though they're coming at it from different starting points. They…

Sam and Ryan talk about how both the key prop and useEffect can be used to solve similar problems, and discuss which approach is better. They also talk about the difference between handling data usin…

Sam and Ryan talk more about their recent experience using Hasura and Amplify, and more generally how best to test apps that are built on third-party services. They also talk about Mirage JS GraphQL.

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Sam and Ryan talk about a tricky integration between some asynchronous third-party JavaScript code and React's render cycles. They also talk about how powerful the getStaticProps hook from Next.js is…

Sam talks about his recent experience working with Next.js on his personal site. He and Ryan also compare Gatsby and Next, and discuss how much Next's updates over the past year have curbed Gatsby's …

Sam and Ryan talk about Ryan's recent experience using Amplify on a side project. They chat about the tradeoffs between using services and writing your own backend code, and how backend services let …

Sam and Ryan talk about how route-based code splitting makes SPAs more like traditional server-rendered apps, potentially negating many of their benefits. They also talk about how the intrinsic width…

Sam and Ryan talk about a post from 2002 discussing Stop Energy, which the author defines as a certain kind of feedback that is thoughtless and can halt forward motion on a project. They also talk ab…

Sam and Ryan talk about adding an authenticated backend to miragejs.com using Hasura, Heroku and Netlify. They also talk about the differences in risk between using paid third-party services vs. depe…

Sam and Ryan talk – again – about the best way to write side effects in React applications. Ryan shares his approach based on his recent work in several React apps, and talks about the pitfalls of us…

Drew Powers, one of two full-time engineers working at Pika, joins Sam to talk about Pika's mission to make the web faster. Drew talks about how Pika is focused on building tools that meet developers…