The Web Platform Podcast

Nolan Lawson a PM at Microsoft Edge joins us today to talk about PouchDB a popular open source project he’s a maintainer of. PouchDB is an open-source JavaScript database inspired by Apache CouchDB t…

This week we are joined with special guests Jan Miksovsky and Rob Bearman from Component Kitchen to talk about their work on the Web Component Gold Standard. The Gold Standard is an open source proje…

Tooling is an ever important topic in the world of web development. In this episode, Danny explains to Justin and Leon the upcoming features in Angular CLI, a tool that makes it easy to create an app…

Web Components Remote Conference is a two day conference all about Web Components. Kito Mann (@kito99) will be delivering a very interesting talk “Beautiful Web Apps with Polymer and TypeScript”. Thi…

Web Components Remote Conference is a two day conference all about Web Components. Jordan Last (@lastmjs) will be delivering a very interesting talk “Universal Web Components” which takes the idea of…

Static Web Applications have evolved quite a bit over the past few years. They are now longer just a flat file with scripts added. Now they are fully functional application stacks. This might sound s…

WebComponents.org have long been a great resource for learning and understanding web components. Recently, Google along with several other developers have worked hard to make the site a place not onl…

Justin Searls chats with us on testing Asynchronous JavaScript as well as best practices for Continuous Integration, Unit testing vs. Integration testing, and tools we can use to help us understand h…

Danny, Erik, & Mark discuss their experiences and current challenges in testing code across their applications and services.

Resources

• Panic - https://github.com/gundb/panic-server
• Aphyr, Kyle Kings…

Corey Speisman (@cdspeis) & Ben Wilson (@benwilson512) talk with the panel about the Facebook API Query Language known as GraphQL and it’s various implementations including the FOSS Github project - …

Vivaldi is a new browser that focuses on user customization and experience. In this episode, designer Atle Mo (@subtlepattern) and developer / designer Henrik Helmers (@helmers) chat with us about wh…

Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) returns to the show to chat about his most recent publication ‘Practical SVG’. Chris walks us through the ins and outs of working with SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). Chri…

Cornel Stefanache (@_cstefanache, @isMonkeyUser) talks about Monkeyuser.com,, laughter, and finding happiness at work & home.

Resources

• Monkeyuser - http://www.monkeyuser.com/
• Xkcd - http://xkcd.com…

Erik Isaksen(@eisaksen) & Mark Nadal (@marknadal) talk about trends in web development as an industry. They discuss technology communities and how they got involved. Mark grills Erik on how technolog…

Tal Ater (@TalAter), creator of Annyang, a powerful speech recognition library for the web, has now created UpUp, an Offline First library using the power of Service Workers.  UpUp is an incredible a…

A summary of the second Polymer Summit, a two day Web Component conference focused on Polymer. Chris Lorenzo (@chiefcll) & John Riviello (@johnriv), spoke on day 2 of the Summit on Comcast’s Polymer …

Jeremy Keith (@adactio), web guru & co-founder of ClearLeft, talks with us about the potential pitfalls and hopes on Progressive Enhancement with Web Components.

Resources

• Extensible Web Components …

Paul Bakaus (@pbakaus), Google Engineer, has recently been leading the AMP Project which is an open source initiative to optimize content for mobile devices using the web. AMP is heavily supported by…

Summary

Harry Roberts (@CSSWizardry) talks with us about scaling CSS in code and across large teams. We also discuss the CSS in the Web Platform standards, the history of CSS, refactoring code, as we…

Summary

It’s been awhile since we have chatted about Elm Lang. Richard Feldman (@rtfeldman), Developer at No Red Ink, returns to the podcast with Conner Ruhl (@connerruhl), Developer Operations at Ca…