The Web Platform Podcast

Henry Zhu (@left_pad), a maintainer for Babel, sits down to discuss the ins and outs of what's happening with the worlds most used JavaScript compiler. Henry takes us through what Babel does, how Bab…

Software engineer, author, and Google Developer Expert Allen Firstenberg (@afirstenberg) visits the show to discuss what exactly identity for a user is. From pitfalls with our current thinking in ide…

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Hosts Amal, Danny, Leon, and Justin kick of the start of the holiday season by taking a moment to reflect on what they're thankful for when it comes to the web. From platform APIs like Servic…

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Amahdy AbdelAziz from Vaadin joins us to share stories of where Vaadin got its name and awesome logo! We also talk about some decisions Vaadin made when creating its latest set of components …

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This week our panel talks with Ken Wheeler all about ReasonML. What is it? Why does it exist? Why should you care? Taking a systems language like OCaml and using it as a base for writing web …

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This week Mark Erikson a Redux maintainer joins us to talk about Redux and its Ecosystem. Discover what Redux is, where it came from, who should use it, answers to common questions and so muc…

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Rachel Nabors joins us to chat all about the Web Animations API. Learn what benefits this API provides developers and when to use the Web Animations API instead of CSS or third-party JavaScri…

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This week Nic Raboy and Matt Groves talk to us about the history and future of the popular Open Source Couchbase project. Learn about some of the great features the noSQL database has to offe…

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This week Erik Meyer joins us to talk about the past, present and future of CSS. Delving into some web history, discussing why CSS can be overlooked in regards to app development and the reas…

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This week Justin Willis and Adam Bradley join us to talk about Stencil a new tool for building Web Components. We talk about how Stencil came about and what problems it solves and we get into…

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This week is a special episode! Recorded face-to-face at GDD Europe Amal Hussein interviews Wendy Ginsberg about life working on Polymer and what’s next for the project.

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This week the crew is joined by Lars Knudsen (@denladeside) and Kenneth Christiansen (@kennethrohde) to talk about the recent Polymer Summit and all of the awesome stuff revealed there. Are w…

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This week Andrea Giammarchi joins us to talk about his latest project hyperHTML! A lightweight Virtual DOM alternative. Andrea talks us through what the project is all about and what he disco…

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This week Paul Kinlan the lead for Chrome developer relations talks to us about Modern Web APIs including Web Share and Shape Detection! Paul talks us through the origin trials process which …

Justin Willis from Ionic joins us this week to talk about hybrid app development with Ionic and some amazing work they have been doing with Web Components. Justin gives us an overview of the Ionic pr…

This week we talk about the exciting JavaScript framework Vue.js! Chad Campbell the author of the training course "Vue.js: Getting Started" educates us on the benefits of Vue.js which includes simpli…

Danny, Justin & Amal get together with Kenneth Christiansen to talk about this year’s Google I/O. With everyone having attended I/O the show is packed full of great content with discussions on AI, Sh…

This week on The Web Platform Podcast your hosts ask the question “Why aren’t Web Workers more widely adopted”? Your hosts talk about what problems can be solved by Web Workers providing some interes…

In this episode, Leon and Justin sit down with Jan Miksovsky and Rob Bearman of of the recently released Elix Project. Elix is a community-driven collection of high-quality web components for common …

Developer bias is something all developers deal with either knowingly or not. Trey Shugart the creator of SkateJS joins us this week to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of developer bias. Fol…