The React Show

How long will that take? It’s the classic question from the boss or the client. How do you answer? Do you get stressed from trying to get things done within your answer? Or do you end up cutting corn…

In this episode Austin and I discuss various aspects of React program structure, like component size and files. We also take a look at learning this material in general and how you can learn the best…

Do you ever feel like you’re not being heard? Or everyone on the team is just making the code worse? Does everything feel sloppy? Is there a lot of miscommunication? In this episode we’re going to lo…

How does React actually render your components? When is it going to invoke your component’s render code and when is it not? How intelligent is the fabled React tree diffing algorithm? We’re going to …

Ever feel like you aren’t as good as the programmer next to you? Or just curious and want to know how you can get better? And not just a little better, but to become really good at programming? In th…

The User Journey. A system used to define the interaction from acquisition to retention a user has with your web application. Our entire programming paradigm is built around discovering this journey,…

Hooks are all the rage in React these days but they actually have a pretty bad API design that leads to bugs and frustration. In this episode we will take a look at the design, discuss what makes it …

Want to take your programs to the next level in quality and longevity? In this episode we learn about and discuss Domain Specific Languages and how you can use them in your React applications to writ…

There are many React component toolkits you can choose from, but one of the best is Chakra UI. In the words of Chakra UI: if you want to create accessible react apps with speed, choose Chakra UI. Cha…

Ever gotten a huge mental block when programming and can't figure out how to move forward? Or maybe you planned everything out nicely but it turned in to a big mess? There is a better way to program …

This is the start of our series on building a new React App! But we’re not starting with just the technical nitty-gritty, we’re going to talk about the whole process of building a React based product…

As programmers, what is our role in preventing unethical software from being developed? In this episode we discuss why it’s so important for programmers, especially, to formulate an ethical framework…

What’s the best way to write a React app, or a program in general? Are you trying to get it perfect the first time, following all the best practices? How should you do a code review? Write a comment …

Just getting started with React? Or maybe you have built React apps for years but want to learn a better way of creating React projects? Next.js is a React based framework designed to improve the dev…

Yes, you are probably using useEffect wrong. useEffect is a powerful tool for hook based React components but it comes with many potential pitfalls and one widely abused feature that can lead to diff…

What will it take to drive React and the surrounding JavaScript ecosystem forward in a dramatic way? How much better can we make it in the next 20 years? In this episode we discuss major and fundamen…

In this episode we talk about the upcoming React 18 release. This is a very exciting release, especially from a performance perspective, as it finally brings concurrent and interruptible rendering al…

Do you have a bottleneck in your React application? If so, we're going to discuss the best ways to find and solve it based on the principles I've outlined in my follow-up book to "Foundations of High…

How do you both write code quickly but also minimize the number of times your weekend will be ruined by nasty bug reports? In this episode we're going to talk about how to write and ship React applic…

Debugging can be extremely frustrating and time consuming, but it doesn't have to be. In this Q & A session we will talk about techniques to more efficiently debug React applications and how to do it…