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• Why you should choose a market before getting too attached to the type of product you want to create
• Why it can make sense to create products in different categories if they are for the…

Topics include:

• Why Derrick chose to build Level as an SPA
• Choosing Elm over React or Vue
• How Elm is sort of like a language and framework combined
• Moving to Phoenix from Rails
• Why getting abstractions ri…

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Topics include:

• What even is JSX, really?
• Why JSX is not a templating a language
• How render functions work
• Advantages of JSX over templates
• How to translate template features like v-if to JSX
• How event lis…

Topics include:

• Why has Ember stuck around when other frameworks from the same era haven't?
• What do you get when you choose Ember that you don't get with other frameworks?
• How does Ember's UI layer comp…

Topics include:

• What is Vuex and where did it come from?
• The benefits of centralizing all of your application's state into one place
• What sort of state belongs in Vuex and what state should stay local t…

Topics include:

• Why global state is better than an event bus
• Why and how to avoid using this.$parent
• Custom events vs. callback props
• When to use watchers and when you don't need to
• Why you should prefer …

Topics include:

• Wrapping non-Vue libraries as Vue components to maintain a consistent paradigm
• Using Popper.js with Vue to build dropdowns and tooltips
• Using portals to build better modal components
• Patt…

Topics include:

• What does "event sourcing" even mean?
• What do terms like "aggregate" and "projection" mean in the context of event sourcing?
• What are the benefits of modeling something with event sourci…

Topics include:

• Challenges with testing Vue components prior to vue-test-utils
• How vue-test-utils works and what it looks like to test a component
• Choosing a test runner
• Common mistakes people make when …

Topics include:

• What JavaScript looked like at Basecamp before Stimulus
• Why Basecamp chose to create a new framework instead of using React, Angular, or Vue
• How Basecamp uses server-rendered partials in…

Topics include:

• Using animation to make interfaces easier to use
• The difference between animations and transitions
• When to use CSS animations vs. JavaScript animations
• Which CSS properties are safe to an…

Topics include:

• What is a "higher order component"?
• How do you replicate the render prop pattern from React with Vue?
• Using scoped slots to build components with no UI
• Using render functions without usin…

Topics include:

• What makes an application "multitenant" really?
• Choosing between a shared database or multi-database setup
• Approaches for identifying the current tenant
• Performance considerations
• How mult…

Kent gives a behind-the-scenes look at how the library uses the render prop pattern to allow maximum customizability without complex configuration.

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Topics include:

• Why Tailwind doesn't include buttons or forms
• Is Tailwind for front-end developers or back-end developers?
• Best practices around extracting component classes
• Using Tailwind with existing …

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Links:

• Diana's personal website
• Primer, GitHub's design system
• Primer modules on GitHub
• "Introd…

Topics include:

• How to pick great fonts
• Choosing a color scheme for your project
• Designing in greyscale
• Recreating existing interfaces from scratch
• Recommended design tools
• What you should design first on …