Full Stack Radio

Topics:

Putting yourself in the shoes of the person reviewing your application
Crafting a high quality application tailored to a specific position
Standing out in a more traditional hiring process by doing something a little extra
Showcasing very specific examples of your work instead of asking the person reviewing your application to go hunting for it
Having good questions for the person interviewing you
Sharing your ideas and what you think the company should be focused on
Creating a job for yourself that doesn’t even exist
Proving that you can take ownership of projects and ship them by yourself
Showing off skills you have that aren’t directly related to the job

Links:

Ben on Twitter
Tuple
Tailwind Labs job postings

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Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Links:

Hotwire
HEY

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Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

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Statamic 3 , Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Links:

Changes to Gumroad's PayPal support
Radical icons
Jack's hand-drawn avatars
W3C's CMS Selection Report

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Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

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Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

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Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Adam and Jack talk about how the Statamic 3 launch went, and adding GitHub Sponsor tiers to the Statamic GitHub organization and what to give people in exchange for sponsoring. They also talk about the new Tailwind CSS v1.7 release, and the new features like gradient support. Finally, they work through some ideas Adam is preparing for his Laracon talk on “Building component libraries with Tailwind CSS”.

Topics include:

Why Gary decided to write Execute Program as a full-stack TypeScript application instead of using a Ruby or Python backend like he may have traditionally
Do you actually have to write less tests if you have a good type system?
What does a good type system give you that tests can't give you?
Using io-ts to type check incoming data
How to think about structuring your code to best take advantage of the benefits your type system gives you and minimize the need to write tests
Pushing conditional logic to the core of your system to reduce the number of tests you need to write at the edges
The correlation between type errors and behavioral bugs, and how a type system can help you catch mistakes you don't think to test for
Do type errors signal that you're missing a test?
Structural vs. nominal type systems, and the benefits of structural type systems like used by TypeScript and Go
Best practices for type-checking within a function in a structural type system like TypeScript
The power of supporting literal types like true or "active" in addition to traditional types

Links:

Destroy All Software
Execute Program
TypeScript
"Are tests necessary in TypeScript?"
io-ts

TypeScript course on Execute Program
Gary's tweet about unions with literal types

Supporting the show:
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Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

What is Svelte and how is it different than other JS frameworks in the space?
What special behavior does the Svelte compiler layer on top of vanilla JS syntax and why?
Why the lack of render functions in Svelte isn't a real problem in practice
What are you giving up when you choose to build your application with something like Rails instead of JavaScript?
Why should we be trying to write our applications in a single language, and why should it be JS?
What's wrong with striving to write an application entirely in a language like Ruby instead of entirely in JS?
Why HEY doesn't really make a good argument against the modern web
Thoughts on bundle sizes, code-splitting, and why aggressive code-splitting is still better than frequent round trips to a server-rendered app
How Svelte and Sapper handle SSR
Why page transitions are the killer argument for building SPAs if we want to be able to compete with native experiences
Should we be thinking about JavaScript applications as native applications in terms of offline-support and eventual consistency, or should we keep thinking of them as webpages that depend on the network?

Links:

Svelte
Sapper
"Second-guessing the modern web"
"In defense of the modern web"

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Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

How do you decide what role to hire for?
Why it's so important to figure out exactly what your biggest struggle is before hiring
How to decide what the most important thing to focus on is when it feels like there's too much to do
Why it's important to consider the impact of hiring for a specific role on your own happiness vs. just the company's bottom line
Coming to terms with the fact that you can't do everything, and why it's important to focus on something instead of spreading yourself thin across everything
Mistakes people make when they start managing a team for the first time

Links:

Jason's blog , one of the greatest treasure troves of startup advice on the internet

Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business , one of Jason's MicroConf talks

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Tailwind UI , a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

How did Basecamp evolve from being a team/client communication tool to focusing on keeping your whole company organized, and is it really even that different?
How exactly should we set up Basecamp on day one to support a small 3-5 person remote software team? What tools should we use and which ones should we ignore for now?
Finding the balance between being organized enough and splitting things up too much
How big should projects be? Is "HEY v1" a project, or is a project something more like "HEY File Attachments"?
What tools do you normally enable for regular projects, and how do you use them?
How are you normally using chat at the individual project level?
Why todo lists should be created by the individuals doing the work, and not the people assigning the work
How should we use the company HQ project? What are some less obvious ideas we can apply there that can make a big difference?
Using a "what we're working on" project to keep everyone on the team in the loop and feeling connected
Using "heartbeats" to summarize the work a team has been doing over a period of time for the rest of the company
Advice on bringing on new employees and how to assign them their first project
When you're such a writing-driven company, how do you make sure decisions get written down when they are made in real-time instead of naturally occurring within Basecamp?

Screenshots:

Example of a "what did I work on?" check-in
Example of a heartbeat
Example of the "What Works" project
Example of an announcement in the HQ project
Example of a conversation on a todo

Links:

Basecamp

Shape Up , Basecamp's recent book on how they work

Going Remote: Basecamp Walkthrough , a livestream where Jason and DHH go over their real Basecamp account

Supporting the show:

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If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI , a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

What is Vite and what makes it different than existing tools like Webpack?
How do ES Modules actually work in the browser and what are the limitations?
Will we ever be able to use ES Modules in production for large complex projects?
How does Vite work under the hood, and how does it support non-JS files like Vue files, or CSS files?
How hot module replacement is implemented under the hood in Vite
Optimizing modules with many dependencies to keep the development experience fast
What is VitePress and how does it compare to VuePress?
Bundling sites for production with Vite
What's the roadmap for Vite 1.0?

Links:

Vite
VitePress
Rollup

Supporting the show:

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If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI , a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

Does DynamoDB only make sense for things like your cache, or is it a good choice for a primary data store?
An overview of the terminology used in DynamoDB and how the terminology compares to a relational database
How primary keys work in DynamoDB
What data types are available in DynamoDB
How DynamoDB is a schemaless database
Why it's important to understand your access patterns in advance with DynamoDB, unlike in a relational database
Understanding why and how you usually have multiple record types in a single DynamoDB table
What "index overloading" is in DynamoDB
Understanding partition keys and sort keys
How to structure your data in DynamoDB to make it possible to query related data, and how those queries work
How secondary indexes work, allowing you to access the same data in different ways
How to accommodate access patterns you didn't know about before you designed your schema
When to flatten relationships vs. nest them
Should you use DynamoDB if you aren't "web-scale"?
How local development works with DynamoDB

Links:

DynamoDB Homepage

Alex's blog , loaded with great DynamoDB content

The DynamoDB Book , Alex's recent book
DynamoDB Guide

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If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI , a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

What does it mean for Redwood to be a JAMStack framework?
What does the React layer look like? What’s new, and what’s leveraging existing community tools?
Why Redwood ships with it’s own routing layer
What “cells” are in Redwood, and how they aim to provide a declarative abstraction on top of data fetching
How Redwood tries to provide clear decoupling behind the front-end and back-end, even though it is providing a full-stack solution
What “services” are in Redwood
Using Prisma 2 to fetch data from your database in your services
What database solutions exist today that work well with Redwood in a serverless environment?

Links:

Redwood.js homepage

PredictCovid.com , a Redwood app in production

Example blog application built with Redwood
Prisma

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI , a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

An overview of the new getStaticProps, getStaticPaths, and getServerSideProps APIs
How Next.js helps you serve static pages from an edge CDN automatically, without affecting the actual authoring experience
Using getStaticPaths to statically pregenerate dynamic routes
How the fallback feature of getStaticPaths works and lets you statically render pages on-demand to avoid long build times
How the upcoming incremental static generation feature will work in Next.js
Deploying Next.js to a platform other than Zeit, and how you retain all of Next’s benefits automatically
How getServerSideProps is different from getInitialProps
Why getServerSideProps actually improves performance, even though it introduces another hop
How getServerSideProps results in smaller bundle sizes vs. getInitialProps
Using getServerSideProps to safely talk directly to a database, skipping the need for an API
Why Zeit as a company has started to favor client-side data fetching with SWR over getInitialProps/getServerSideProps, and how they are combining that with statically pregenerated “shells” for incredibly fast feeling experiences
What’s coming next in future releases

Links:

Next.js
Next.js 9.3 Announcement
Incremental Static Generation RFC
Next.js Code Elimination Demo

SWR , ZEIT's data fetching library

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI , a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

What do people actually mean when they say "I used to use Rails, but now I use React"?
Why back-end development is still a crucial part of building any web application
What third-party services people are using to try and replace custom back-end code
Would you default to building a Rails back-end for a React side project, or is your instinct to try and use third-party services only?
How far do you think front-end-first frameworks like Next.js are going to get their hands dirty in the back-end?
Are new developers missing out by starting with React and not realizing how important tools like Rails and Laravel are for building complete production-ready applications?
Are relational databases legacy tech or are they underappreciated?

Links:

Ruby on Rails
React
AWS Amplify
Firebase
Hasura
GraphQL: The Documentary
OneGraph
Next.js

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI , a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

What Tailwind UI is and why we decided to build it
How odd numbers can wreak havoc on a user interface, and how to avoid them
Crafting the perfect form control
Unexpected benefits of working with CSS Grid
Abusing single column grids just to use gap, and why we desperately need gap support in Flexbox

Links:
Tailwind UI
Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI , a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

What problems you run into when baking white space into components, and why your components should never contain any surrounding white space at all
Layout challenges you run into due to the way the browser includes line-height in the size of text elements
The trick Mark's team uses to remove surrounding white space from text elements, without removing the space between wrapping lines
Using a "stack" component to specify the space between sibling elements
Issues with naively just using margin on one side of an element to space elements
The upcoming "gap" property in CSS and how it proves layout components are a good idea
Using a "content block" component for horizontal spacing/sizing at the page level
Tricks for maintaining vertical rhythm despite 1px borders trying to ruin it all for you
Why tools like React are so important for being able to implement designs in a way that matches how designers think

Links:

"Rethinking Design Best Practices" , Mark's talk at ReactiveConf 2019

Braid , the design system Mark works on
Playroom

Supporting the show:

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If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to pick up one of my books or courses:

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics

What is Mirage and how does it work?
What makes Mirage better than a dummy JSON server you run on another port?
What makes Mirage better than running your actual API locally?
Using Mirage for actual development, and not just for your test suite
How Mirage's internal ORM works, and how it can help you mirror your API's behavior more quickly
Managing the risks of maintaining a complex stub of your real API with Mirage and keeping them in sync
What's next for Mirage

Links

Mirage.js
Mirage.js on GitHub

Supporting the show

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If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to pick up one of my books or courses:

Refactoring UI , a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.

Advanced Vue Component Design , a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.

Test-Driven Laravel , a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.

Refactoring to Collections , a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

What is Alpine and what does it replace?
How does Alpine compare to Vue?
How does Alpine compare to Stimulus?
“Why not just use vanilla JavaScript you dummy?”
How Alpine works internally
Patterns for extracting reusable behaviours with Alpine
The Alpine roadmap

Sponsors:

Tuple , try the best pair programming app out there for free for two weeks
Links:

Alpine.js on GitHub
The template tag
The with statement
Proxy objects

Topics include:

Why "fixed time, variable scope" is so important for actually getting things done
Integrating development and design into a single process instead of design first, develop later
What it means to "shape" work before deciding to work on it
What it means to "bet" on a project, and why Basecamp would rather trash a project than extend the deadline by an extra week
Taking deadlines seriously, and how it empowers teams to make their own decisions about scope to avoid having to trash the project
An example of a project at Basecamp that failed to ship, and working through what they did wrong that led to that outcome
De-risking projects by getting input from technical experts on the team before committing to actually doing the work
What exactly is the deliverable a design/development team receives from leadership at the start of a project that they are expected to be able to succeed with?
The difference between macro planning and micro planning on a project
How Basecamp avoids iterating on solutions within a cycle without turning projects into fixed time, fixed scope
Why designers at Basecamp start by actually building the very rough "Times New Roman" version of a UI with HTML and CSS before spending time on high fidelity visual design decisions
Applying "Shape Up" on client projects

Sponsors:

Tuple , try the best pair programming app out there for free for two weeks
Links:

Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters , Ryan's recent book about how they work at Basecamp

Topics include:

What exactly is a finite state machine?
Why trying to keep track of a component's status using boolean flags is leads to bugs and complex code
Why it makes so much more sense to keep track of a component's state using some sort of label
How simple it can actually be to implement UI component logic with a state machine and why you shouldn't think of it as complex or over-engineering
How you can think of using state machines in UI programming to be like an inversion of the typical approach you may have taken in the past, where actions become scoped to certain states instead of actions needing to inspect the current state
What events might look like in your state machine and where you're actually sending them from and to
Advice for naming your events
What it means to "transition" between states
How using a state machine makes it easy to provide slightly different behavior for the same action based on the current state
The benefits of visualizing your state machines
Using the XState library to build state machines in JavaScript

Sponsors:

Tuple , try the best pair programming app out there for free for two weeks

DigitalOcean , get your free $50 credit at do.co/fullstack

Links:

"No, disabling a button is not app logic." , David's recent article on state machines
XState Docs

Topics include:

What were the first feature/change ideas that got the wheels turning for Vue 3
How Vue's underlying VNode data structure is changing and how that affects users who work directly with render functions
How the h function works in Vue 3 and how it helps you write code that's more composable
How many breaking changes are just removing deprecations vs. hard breaks and how a compatibility build is going to ease the upgrade process
The new template compiler and how it will drastically increase performance
What were the goals of the class-based component API and why was it cancelled?
The new composition API and how it will help you write more reusable logic without the downsides of mixins or scoped slots
A deep-dive into reactive vs. refs in the composition API
How the composition API compares to hooks in React
How provide/inject is being improved for Vue 3

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Links:

Vue 3 source code on GitHub
Vue RFCs
Vue 3 Composition API

Topics include:

Why Heroku introduced BEM to try and solve their CSS issues and why it didn't work
How custom tooling and Ember's component system alleviated any maintainability concerns about littering the HTML with presentational classes
Why Heroku still uses some component classes like "btn" and "input" even though they could encapsulate those in an Ember component
Why simply introducing any sort of rigid CSS architecture wasn't enough and why switching to a utility CSS approach specifically was critical to making UI development at Heroku more maintainable
How with a non-utility CSS approach, every new feature always seemed to require writing new CSS, no matter how many "reusable" components existed in the system
Why the team at Heroku still loves working with this approach, even 3.5 years after introducing it
How a utility-based approach has worked just as well for Heroku's marketing properties as it has for their application UI
Pylon, Alasdair's experimental CSS library that provides declarative layout primitives in the form of custom HTML elements

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Links:

purple3 , Heroku's utility CSS library for their product UIs

shibori3 , Heroku's utility CSS library for their marketing properties

Pylon , Alasdair's declarative CSS layout library

Topics include:

What Inertia.js is and what problem it solves
Why Inertia is more like a protocol than a framework
How navigation works in Inertia
How form submissions work in Inertia
How Inertia automatically updates your assets for visitors when you update your code
Handling flash messages and validation errors work
Building applications with persistent layouts
Showing placeholder screens with Inertia while data is loading

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Links:

Inertia.js
Inertia.js on GitHub

Ping CRM , the canonical Inertia.js demo application
Placeholder components in Inertia.js
Sponsor Jonathan's work on Inertia on GitHub

Topics include:

How do you keep data synchronized between two different clients when all of the data is stored locally instead of in the cloud?
Understanding conflict-free replicated data types and how they help when building distributed applications
Diving deep into how messages are replayed across clients when network access becomes available to achieve consistent state
Using a Merkle tree to efficiently compare the message store from two clients to know which messages need to be synchronized
Considerations you need to make when structuring your data to enable eventual consistency
What it might look like to move an app like Actual to an offline-first web app where you can't use things like SQLite

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Links:

Actual
Electron
Conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT)
Hybrid logical clock
Merkle tree

Topics include:

Brainstorming ideas vs. paying attention to your own problems
Why it's smart to start with a product that might never make a million dollars a year
Should you avoid markets with competition?
Why it's a good idea to build something for fewer people
Strategies for figuring out how many people have the problem you're trying to solve
Why you should start marketing before you start building
When should you start charging money for your product?
Why getting 1,000 customers is extremely hard and how that affects your pricing
Why you don't need an audience to build a software product

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Links:

Rob's website

Startups for the Rest of Us , Rob's podcast

Drip , the last software business Rob built

TinySeed , Rob's startup accelerator for bootstrappers

MicroConf , the conference Rob organizes
"The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping"
"Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding"

"Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg

"SaaS Marketing Essentials" by Ryan Battles

"Start Small, Stay Small" , Rob's book

Topics include:

Creating pixel-perfect mockups in advance vs. designing and implementing in tandem
Working with existing JS libraries for interactive UI features vs. hand-rolling a custom implementation from scratch
How design systems play into the design process at Netlify, and how mockups aren't meant to implemented pixel-for-pixel
What tools Netlify uses to design new features and manage the design process
What technologies Netlify uses to keep their UI consistent
Using modern CSS features like CSS grid

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Links:

Netlify Analytics
Highcharts
Abstract
Sketch
PostCSS
postcss-nested
postcss-each

Topics include:

Building website templates vs. a UI kit
Should the product be positioned as a UI library or an educational resource?
One-time purchase pricing vs. subscription pricing vs. some combination of the two
Why marketing features can sometimes be better than marketing benefits
"Dribbble but with code"

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Links:

Tailwind CSS
Tweet previewing the Tailwind component directory
Article on Sketch pricing model
MegaMaker Club

Thermostat , the NPS survey software Ian is working on

Topics include:

Walking through how a single screen in the app is rendered in step-by-step detail
How they separate container components and presentational components to make things easier to reason about
How the Redux store is organized
How they handle caching data on the client and deciding when to bust the cache
How the API is designed
Why they are sticking with REST instead of Graphql
How they handle authentication in their app

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Links:

Netlify
React
React Router

"Presentational and Container Components" by Dan Abramov
Netlify's Storybook
Immutable
Immer
redux-funk
Netlify Analytics
JAMstack Conf

Topics include:

The risks and technical challenges of building client-side API integrations and why Benedikt decided to focus on a server-side integration for launch
Building Userlist with Ember instead of trendier tools like React
How the Ember app authenticates with the Rails API
Strategies for keeping email deliverability high for Userlist's customers
How Benedikt built Userlist's complex segmentation engine by creating a custom AST structure and compiling it to SQL
How the automation and email scheduling system works

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Links:

Userlist.io

Slow and Steady , Benedikt's podcast
Prosemirror
Ember
Ruby on Rails
Sidekiq
Sparkpost

Topics include:

What is serverless?
What AWS services Vapor manages and how they are billed
Using a single RDS instance with multiple databases
Understanding cold boots with Lambda and how to minimize the effect they have on your application's performance
Performance on Vapor
How queues work with Vapor
Tuning your queue concurrency based on your database connection limit
Strategies for preventing your web instances and queue instances from competing for resources
How scheduled tasks work with Vapor
How file uploads work with Vapor
Limitations when running code on Lambda and strategies for working around them

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Links:

Laravel Vapor

Intro to Laravel Vapor , Taylor's talk at Laracon

Topics include:

How modernizing a Flash app drove Ryan to start building SPAs
How products are really just user interfaces to the end user, and why that means it makes sense to make the UI the core of your codebase
Why the backend will continue to be commoditized and application developers will be spending more and more of their time in the UI
What makes something a web app instead of a website, and why almost everything is actually an app
Why application developers still need to write server-side code right now and what areas have the biggest room for innovation and improvement

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Links:

EmberMap , Ryan's tutorial site
Mirage.js
Client-side SQL
GraphQL

Hasura GraphQL Engine , an automatic GraphQL API over Postgres
Conversation on ugprading API requests
Interview with Michelle Bu of Stripe

Topics include:

Can you have more than one "h1" on page?
How important is heading order?
Why not everything that looks like a heading should necessarily be a heading
Why you may want to include invisible headings in some situations
What the document outline is and how your use of headings impacts it
How to make your heading levels dynamic to make your components more flexible
What a "sectioning context" is
Can you have multiple "article" elements on one page?
What even is an "article" anyways?
How to use elements like "section" and "aside" properly
Should navigation items be in lists?
Why Aaron can't remember the last time he used a "span"

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Links:

Aaron's personal website

HTML5 Element Flowchart from html5 Doctor

Topics include:

What CSS-in-JS even is
What Emotion does differently than other CSS-in-JS libraries
How to actually use Emotion to style your projects
How the JSX pragma works and what it's for
How Emotion works under the hood
Performance
Adding global styles to your project
Style re-use and composition in Emotion
Using Emotion with server-side rendering

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Links:

Emotion
Glam
Glamor
Glamorous
Styled Components
JSX pragma
CSSStyleSheet.insertRule()
Global styles in Emotion
Server-side rendering in Emotion

Topics include:

How pattern matching works in Elixir and why it's more powerful than method overloading in other languages
How Elixir's pipe operator makes the transition from OO to functional programming more natural
Why you don't need to be intimidated by unfamiliar features like GenServers to use Elixir for web app development
Noticeable differences between working with Rails and Phoenix and what it was like to transition
How the Phoenix ORM makes n+1 queries impossible
Why background tasks are a lot easier in Elixir than in an ecosystem like PHP
What other tools and technology power the Changelog platform
How the Changelog Phoenix app is deployed

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Links:

Building rapid UI with utility-first CSS , Adam's episode of JS Party
Elixir
Phoenix
Chris McCord on The Changelog
The Changelog source code
Confident Ruby
"Why we chose Turbolinks"

Programming Phoenix book
Elixir Forum
Our Slack

Topics include:

How Gatsby is more than just a static site generator
How you create pages with Gatsby and how it's more powerful than traditional static site generators
The benefits of having a unified data access layer for all of your content
How to build dynamic applications with Gatsby
Why Gatsby is actually faster than static HTML
How Gatsby makes performance best practices easy
Gatsby themes and why they are more exciting than traditional CMS themes

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Links:

Gatsby
GraphQL
gatsby-image
Reach Router
The PRPL Pattern
Jason on Twitch

Topics include:

How Vue focuses on making things easy at the cost of a more complex API, while React focuses on keeping things simple at the cost of a steeper learning curve
How to translate Vue's computed properties to React using the useMemo hook
How to translate Vue's watchers to React using the useEffect hook
How to translate Vue's v-model to React using value props and event listeners
How to translate Vue's events to React using callback props
How to translate Vue's slots to React by passing JSX as a normal prop
How to handle transitions in React with libraries like Pose

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Links:

Why I prefer React over Vue , from Sebastian's blog
React docs
Introducing Hooks at React Conf
Hooks docs
Vue Template Explorer

Pose , animation library for React and Vue

Overreacted.io , Dan Abramov's React blog

Topics include:

Why you need more than just a product, and what Justin brings to the table in his partnership with Jon
How having an audience helped him get his first customers, even in a crowded market
Why you should use every advantage you have to get people in the door, even though the only thing that will make customers stay is a great product with great service
"People like us do things like this" vs "scratching your own itch"
How their affiliate program has been working surprisingly well for them, and how affiliate programs compare to traditional advertising
What Justin's day looks like working on Transistor as the marketing focused side of the partnership
How Justin and Jon are paying themselves, inspired by Profit First

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Links:

Transistor , Justin's podcast hosting business

Build your SaaS , Justin's podcast on building Transistor with Jon

The Good News Podcast , Cards Against Humanity's podcast hosted on Transistor
The Transistor blog
Transistor's revenue metrics

Rewardful , the affiliate SaaS Justin uses
Profit First

Topics include:

How Now is trying to bring the CDN experience to your server-side code
How the constraints of serverless can nudge you to build more robust solutions
How to talk to a database in a stateless serverless environment
Best practices for deploying serverless code when you have a centralized data store
Why routing should be handled at the Now configuration level instead of in application code
How Now functions are different from microservices, and how you share code between them
How Now bundles your project using builders
Creating a monolithic project with Now that uses different programming languages for each endpoint
How the upcoming "now dev" feature will enable you to simulate a serverless environment locally
A behind-the-scenes look at the Now dashboard, how it's built, and the third-party services that power it

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Links:

ZEIT
Next.js
Now.sh

Now builders on GitHub
Now Monorepo example

Wordpress running on Now on now
Third-party services for serverless projects:
Cosmos DB
ScaleGrid
Compose
DynamoDB
Firebase
Amazon Aurora
Auth0

Topics include:

How Jeffrey has written CSS historically, and what drew him to a utility-first approach
Incrementally replacing Bulma with Tailwind
The importance of solidifying your Tailwind configuration before beginning to implement a design
The new Tailwind color system
Why choosing a color palette in advance is much better than using preprocessor functions like darken() or lighten()
How duplicating your markup is often a better solution than trying to write incredibly crafty responsive CSS
How Tailwind helps with performance by letting you keep your CSS cached
How to use CSS variables to create multiple themes for the same Tailwind site

Sponsors:

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Links:

Laracasts
Tailwind CSS

Group Hover in Tailwind

Mobile Twitter , responsive app without media queries

Theming Tailwind demo on GitHub

Easy Tailwind Themes Using CSS Variables , free lesson on Laracasts

Laravel, Vue and SPAs , Laracasts series on building an SPA with Tailwind CSS

LaraCats.com 😸

Topics include:

Pain points you run into when you are working in a JS based UI instead of a server-rendered UI
What Livewire is and where the inspiration came from
How Livewire lets you build interactive user interfaces with server-side code
The challenges of stateful long-running processes in PHP and using stateless AJAX requests as an alternative
Walking through a worked example of using Livewire to build an interactive dropdown
What's next for Livewire

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Links:

Full Stack Radio T-Shirt + Sticker Pack Pre-orders

Caleb's blog , loaded with great Livewire content

No Plans to Merge , Caleb's podcast

Sharing Data in a Laravel/Vue Application on the Zaengle blog

Embrace the Backend , Caleb's talk at Laracon 2018

Phoenix LiveView unveiling at ElixirConf 2018
morphdom
Sign up for Livewire updates

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Topics include:

Semantic versioning and why there hasn't been a v1.0 release already
How v1.0 will be encouraging people to leverage the default design system
Breaking changes and what the upgrade story will be like
What's coming after Tailwind CSS v1.0

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Links:

Full Stack Radio T-Shirt + Sticker Pack Pre-orders
Tailwind CSS

Adam's Work Journal , where writes about his progress on v1.0
The v1.0 To-Do List
PR explaining the new config format

Topics include:

Why the UI fidelity threshold for building an SPA feels so low
How forcing yourself to prepare data for Vue helps avoid putting too much logic into your templates
Why it's still worth building your app as a traditional server-based web app, even if you are using Vue for your entire UI
Performance and complexity benefits of being able to prepare data for the view in a controller instead of having to build an API
Strategies for dealing with things like accessing routes, checking authorization rules, and other things you'd normally do in a Blade template
Switching from a template-inheritance mindset to a component mindset

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Links:

Laravel
Vue.js

Server-side apps with client-side rendering , from Jonathan's blog
Example project

Ziggy , package for accessing your Laravel routes on the client

Topics include:

Building an API without writing any controller code
Thinking of your API like a database as much as possible
Modeling everything on the server as a resource, including things like S3 upload signatures
Using tools like Firebase to avoid writing an API entirely

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Links:

EmberMap , Sam's Ember.js training site

JSON:API , the API spec Sam uses to build his SPA backends

JSONAPI::Resources , the Rails gem for declaratively building a JSON:API compliant API
Firebase
Vuex
Apollo GraphQL

Topics include:

Why you should think of SPAs as desktop apps instead of web apps
Strategies for pushing complexity out of your backend and on to the client
Building optimistic UIs
Best practices for storing and retrieving data
Why you should design your SPAs with an "offline-first" mindset

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Links:

EmberMap , Sam's Ember.js training site

Cruddy by Design , Adam's talk on modeling with resources

Progressive Enhacement is Dead, Long Live Progressive Enhancement , a talk from Tom Dale that talks about building offline-first web applications
Ember Data
JSON:API
Ember-Orbit

Topics include:

What exercises you should focus on and why
How to develop a system that will force you to make progress
The importance of keeping a training journal
Why full-body workouts are better than training a specific muscle group each day
The importance of mobility for both training and your work life
Why building strength is so important as you age
Why you shouldn't trust trainers trying to sell complex exercise programs
Why you probably shouldn't be running for exercise
What equipment you need to get started

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Links:

Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe

5/3/1 by Jim Wendler

Deskbound by Kelly Starrett

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Strong app for iOS

"Why You Should Not Be Running" by Mark Rippetoe
The MobilityWOD BattleStar
Rogue Fitness

Adam's last powerlifting competition on YouTube

Habits for Hackers , Ben's latest course

Topics include:

Issues you run into when you do too much work in code instead of in the database
Why memory usage is just as important as query count
How being smarter with your database usage can let you avoid hard problems like cache invalidation
Denormalizing computable data to make it queryable
Using "where not exists" strategically to improve query performance
Why the solution to n+1 problems isn't always as simple as eager-loading
How subqueries work and how you can use them to avoid memory problems when eager-loading

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Links:

Refactoring UI

"Dynamic relationships in Laravel using subqueries" on Jonathan's blog

Source code for Jonathan's Laracon Online talk

The benefits of NOT EXISTS on StackOverflow

Advanced Eloquent , Jonathan's Laravel package

Questions include:

What's your process for getting started on a new design?
How do you make your designs feel original?
How do you choose fonts for a new project?
How do you make complex tables look good, and how do you make them work on mobile?
What's the best way to style multiple secondary actions on a page?

Refactoring UI topics include:

Structuring the book to make it easy to read in a short amount of time
An overview of the sections and chapters in the book
What's covered in the screencasts
How the included color palettes are designed and why they are more useful than the color palettes you're used to generating online
What the font recommendation guide includes and how it's organized
Details about the included icon set
What's inside the component gallery, and how it's meant to be used
The release date! 🎉

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Links:

Refactoring UI
🔥 Design Tips
Fonts In Use

"Getting Real" by Basecamp , our inspiration for structuring the book
Refactoring UI on YouTube
Preview of the Refactoring UI icon set
Preview of the Refactoring UI color palettes
Preview of the Refactoring UI component gallery

Topics include:

Why "success" shouldn't mean the same thing to everyone
How to stay small without doing all the work you don't want to do yourself
Why it's important to define what "enough" is for your business instead of always feeling the need to do better than you did last year
Questions to ask yourself to figure out what "success" would be for you
How knowing your "enough" can help you build better products for the people you want to serve
Why you should ignore the people who don't like what you're doing and double down on the people who love it

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Links:

Paul's website

Company of One , Paul's upcoming book

"Enough already" , from Paul's blog

"1,000 True Fans" , by Kevin Kelly

"Find your rat people" , from Paul's blog
"Sean D'Souza doesn't want to grow his company!"

Topics include:

Why deadlines are critical
Using manual processes to avoid building features entirely
How launching a stripped down version of your idea can help you build the right thing
Recognizing when you don't need to solve a problem yet

Why you shouldn't design your entire UI up front
How evolutionary design applies to both code and interface design
Why you should always finish a feature before starting the next one
Applying this approach to Ben's current project Tuple

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Links:

The Art of Product , Ben's podcast

Tuple , Ben's current project
"You Should Take a Codecation"

Trailmix.life , Ben's first codecation SaaS

Briefs.fm , Ben's second codecation SaaS

Nomadlist , by Pieter Levels

Airline List
Basecamp 6 week cycles
"How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp"

"What six weeks of work looks like" (at Basecamp)

"Making Sense of MVP" , by Henrik Kniberg

Topics include:

The history behind Nuxt.js
How Nuxt.js uses special Page components and file-based routing instead of using a traditional router
Creating dynamic page-based routes without a custom server
How the asyncData lifecycle hook works
How server-side rendering works in Nuxt.js
How Nuxt.js uses intelligent code-splitting to improve performance
How to use the fetch method to dispatch Vuex actions
Using the head method to populate head elements on a page
How layouts and middleware work
Options for generating, serving, and deploying Nuxt applications
When and why would someone use Vue CLI instead of Nuxt?

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Links:

VueConf TO Discount
Nuxt.js Documentation
Vuepress
Vue CLI 3

Topics include:

How Next.js is different than using create-react-app
How page-based routing works in Next.js vs. a traditional router
The mechanics behind how components are server-side rendered and picked up by React on the client
What it really means to server-render a React app and how it's different from a traditional server-rendered web app
How to use "getInitialProps" to tell Next.js how to render a page on the server
How dynamic routing works using page-based routing
What's new in Next.js 7.0

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Links:

VueConf TO Discount
Next.js Documentation

Learn Next.js , official guide
Next.js Blog

Next.js Examples on GitHub

Topics include:

What JSON Web Tokens are and how to use them to authenticate users
Strategies for invalidating stateless API tokens
Using cookie and session authentication
Using authentication-as-a-service solutions like Auth0
Proxying requests to your API to simplify CORS issues
Protecting against XSS attacks

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Links:

JSON Web Tokens

Securing Angular Applications , Ryan's book
Security Headers scanning tool
"I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how."
https://auth0.com/

"CORS is bad for performance" Twitter thread

Topics include:

How modern JS frameworks have made the web less accessible
How Reach UI is making it easier for people to build accessible components without sacrificing customizability
The importance of using the correct markup
How focus trapping works
Adding keyboard navigation to components in a way that makes sense for screenreader users
The challenges of building an accessibility-focused UI library

Sponsors:

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Cloudinary , sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

Reach UI
React Native for Web
WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices
VoiceOver
NVDA
Hiding elements visually but not from screenreaders
Ryan's Advanced React Workshop Tour
Ryan's Online React Courses

Topics include:

Why goals aren't useful on their own
The four rules that guide human behavior
Using environment design to encourage the habits you want to adopt
Building habits of avoidance
Why being productive is really about decision making

Sponsors:

Cloudinary , sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Netlify , incredibly powerful static site hosting for free

Links:

JamesClear.com

Pre-order Atomic Habits , James' upcoming book
James' Newsletter

Topics include:

How to fetch and reconstitute an aggregate from its events
Using generators to make it easy to transform event streams
What it looks like to apply an event to an aggregate
How to create events and what they look like
Implementing a message repository for fetching events from storage
How to raise events from inside your aggregates
How to persist aggregates at the end of a request
What it looks like to insert new events into storage
Dispatching events to consumers to produce side effects
Using event consumers to create and update projections

Sponsors:

Netlify , incredibly powerful static site hosting for free

Cloudinary , sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

Full Stack Radio #85

EventSauce , Frank's event sourcing library

Topics include:

The benefits of pairing with someone more experienced than you
The benefits of pairing with someone less experienced than you
How pairing helps you build things faster
Why pairing often removes the need for code review
How to get started with pairing if you've never done it before

Sponsors:

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Netlify , incredibly powerful static site hosting for free

Links:

Tuple , the remote pairing tool Ben is building
Tuple's Pair Programming Guide

The Art of Product , Ben's podcast with Derrick Reimer
Ben's blog

Pair programming on Wikipedia

"Extreme Programming Explained" by Kent Beck
"How to Improve as a Programmer"
Llewellyn’s strong-style pairing
The Pomodoro Technique
Vehikl podcast episode on pairing

Topics include:

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 same people
Why a CSS framework and a TDD course have more in common than it sounds
Why you might be happier having a job than running a business if you want to spend your time doing a specific type of work
What you should be doing instead of racking your brain for app ideas

Sponsors:

Netlify , incredibly powerful static site hosting for free

Cloudinary , sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

"Anything You Want" by Derek Sivers

Adam's tweet storm after re-reading "Anything You Want"
Justin's talk on product validation at MicroConf 2018
Justin's website
Justin's Marketing for Developers course

Build your SaaS , Justin's podcast about building Transistor.fm

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 right feels easier in a functional language
How "contexts" help you organize your Phoenix code
The benefits of GraphQL over REST
What it looks like to implement GraphQL on the server
Avoiding n+1 queries with GraphQL

Sponsors:

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Links:

Level
Level live-coding screencasts on YouTube

Elm , the functional programming language Derrick is using on the frontend

An Introduction to Elm , the official tutorial
The Elm Architecture

Elixir , the functional programming language Derrick is using on the backend

Phoenix , the Elixir framework

Contexts in Phoenix
GraphQL

Absinthe , GraphQL implementation for Elixir

Sponsors:

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Links:

Level

The War on Developer Productivity , the Level manifesto
Level live-coding screencasts on YouTube

Ghost , open-source publishing platform

Discourse , open-source discussion platform

"After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost" ,

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 listeners work with JSX
JSX gotchas to watch out for

Sponsors:

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Links:

Introducing JSX from the React documentation

Render Functions & JSX in the Vue.js documentation

Vue.js Template Explorer , see how Vue compiles templates to render functions

babel-plugin-transform-vue-jsx on GitHub

Vue Templates in JSX , article by Sebastian De Deyne

Prettier code formatter
Hyperscript
Why React uses "className" instead of "class"

Writing Vue.js Render Functions in JSX from Alligator.io

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 compare to React/Vue?
What choices does Ember make differently than frameworks like React and Vue?
How does Ember do state management?
Why Ember is a great choice if you value stability

Sponsors:

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Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

EmberMap , Sam's Ember.js training site
Ember.js Documentation

ember-cli-tailwind , Tailwind CSS add-on for Ember

Handlebars , Ember's templating language

"Should we use controllers?" , on how controllers fit into Ember when also using components
Ember Data
Ember's release cycle

embercasts , Ember.js training for beginners

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 to a component
What all the Vuex terminology means, like actions, mutations, getters, etc.
How you initially populate a Vuex store
Strategies for organizing all of the state in a store
Common mistakes people make with Vuex
Dealing with forms when using Vuex

Sponsors:

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Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

Advanced Vue Component Design , Adam's upcoming course
Vuex Documentation
The Elm Architecture

Intro to Vuex on CSS Tricks by Sarah Drasner

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 computed properties over methods
Inline templates vs. scoped slots
Using components to share code instead of mixins or directives

Sponsors:

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Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

Advanced Vue Component Design , Adam's upcoming course
Chris on GitHub
Chris on Patreon

"7 Secret Patterns Vue Consultants Don't Want You To Know" , Chris' recent presentation

"Methods, Computed, and Watchers in Vue.js" by Sarah Drasner

PortalVue , library for rendering elements outside of their parent component
vue-enterprise-boilerplate

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
Patterns for making it easier to reuse components throughout an application
Which Tailwind CSS component classes Jonathan chose to extract (and which ones he didn't)
How Jonathan chose to customize his Tailwind configuration for his project
Using Tailwind's advanced screen options to better accommodate a sidebar layout
How Jonathan is using Purgecss to reduce his CSS from 110,000 lines of code 1.7mb in development to 8.8kb in production

Sponsors:

Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Rollbar , sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

Advanced Vue Component Design , Adam's upcoming course

"Building a Sortable Component with Vue.js" , replay from Adam's recent live stream
Vue.js
Tailwind CSS
Turbolinks

Popper.js positioning library

Pikaday date picker library
Vue.nextTick()

PortalVue , library for rendering elements outside of their parent component
Portals in React
Purgecss

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 sourcing vs. a traditional state-based approach?
How events are usually stored
Why and how you might build multiple projections from a single event stream
How events in event sourcing differ from the sort of events you might already be using in your projects
A walkthrough of what the actual code would look like to model a "publish blog post" feature using event sourcing

Sponsors:

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Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

Advanced Vue Component Design , Adam's upcoming course
Frank's Blog

EventSauce , Frank's new PHP event sourcing library

Event Store event sourcing database

"Event Sourcing" introduction by Martin Fowler

"Event Sourcing" talk by Greg Young at GOTO 2014

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 testing their components
Mocking and stubbing external dependencies
Combining unit testing with snapshot testing

Sponsors:

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Rollbar , sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

vue-test-utils on GitHub
vue-test-utils Documentation

"Testing Vue.js Applications" , Edd's book

Enzyme testing utility for React
jsdom

Jest , Edd's recommended test runner
mocha-webpack
Mocking in Jest
Snapshot testing in Jest
Async Vue components

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 instead client-side templates
Why David decided to start "On Writing Software Well"
Evaluating patterns in practice and choosing between conflicting approaches
Using concerns/mixins to organize classes with many features
Applying resourceful routing to singular resources

Sponsors:

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Links:

Stimulus Homepage
Stimulus on GitHub
David's blog post introducing Stimulus
Turbolinks
Webpacker

"Server-generated JavaScript Responses (SJR)" (2013)

respond_to , returning multiple formats from the same Rails controller
"On Writing Software Well"
1: Removing the need for code comments
2: Using callbacks to manage auxiliary complexity
3: Using globals when the price is right
4: Not every model is backed by a database
5: Testing without test damage or excessive isolation

Basecamp's "Getting Real" YouTube channel

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 animate
How to use techniques like FLIP to make sure your animations are performant
Recommended libraries for building complex animations
Strategies for keeping animation code maintainable

Sponsors:

Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Rollbar , sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

Sarah's Personal Website
Sarah on CodePen

"SVG Animations" , Sarah's book

"Functional Animation" , Sarah's talk on using animation to create spatial awareness and make interfaces easier to use

GreenSock animation library

"Animation in Design Systems" , Sarah's article at 24 ways

"FLIP Your Animations" , using the FLIP technique to make animations more performant
Transitions in Vue.js

"Animating Vue" , Sarahs' talk from VueConf 2017

Web Animation Workshops with Sarah and Val Head

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 using JSX
How Vue's built-in components like `` work under the hood

Sponsors:

Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Rollbar , sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

Vue.js Homepage

The Vue Point , the official Vue.js blog on Medium

Higher-Order Components , from the React documentation

"Use a Render Prop!" by Michael Jackson, an introduction to render prop components in React

Scoped Slots documentation

Render Functions documentation

"Writing Abstract Components with Vue.js" , tutorial on writing a render function component with Vue

Fetch Component Demo , based on the component Evan describes in the podcast

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 multitenancy impacts how you integrate with external services

Sponsors:

Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Rollbar , sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

"Building Multitenant Applications" , video of Tom's talk from Laracon US 2017
Slides from Tom's multitenancy talk

"Online migrations at scale" on the Stripe engineering blog

"Migrating replication lag and reducing read load with freno" on the GitHub engineering blog

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

Sponsors:

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Links:

downshift on GitHub

"Introducing downshift for React" from Kent's blog

"Use a Render Prop!" post by Michael Jackson

"Compound Components" talk by Ryan Florence

match-sorter , Kent's best-match sorting library
Awesome React Render Props

react-toggled , Kent's toggle component library
Kent's newsletter

"Learn React Fundamentals and Advanced Patterns" , blog post introducing Kent's React courses

Sponsors:

Rollbar , sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

Refactoring Rails , Ben's refactoring course

The 30 Day Code Quality Challenge , Ben's free 30-day code quality course

Refactoring from Good to Great , Ben's popular refactoring talk

Decompose Conditional , an example of "make the implicit explicit"
Introduce Parameter Object
Replace Conditional with Polymorphism

Chasing Perfect , Adam's talk about refactoring with polymorphism
Introduce Null Object
Replace Method with Method Object

"Why Ruby Class Methods Resist Refactoring" from the Code Climate blog

Collection Pipeline , Martin Fowler's article on replacing loops with array transformations

Curing the Common Loop , Adam's talk on refactoring loops and conditionals

Refactoring to Collections , Adam's book and video series

Boundaries , Gary Bernhardt's talk about OO, functional programming, and immutability

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 CSS or on top of other frameworks
Optimizing Tailwind's generated file size
New features planned for upcoming Tailwind releases

Sponsors:

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Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

Tailwind CSS Homepage
Tailwind CSS GitHub repository
Tailwind CSS discussion forum

@tailwindcss on Twitter

Built with Tailwind , a curated list of cool stuff built with Tailwind

Tailwind Expo , more cool stuff built with Tailwind

Tailwind CSS lessons on Egghead.io , by Simon Vrachliotis

purgecss , amazing tool for removing unused CSS from your codebase

Using PurgeCSS to remove unused Tailwind CSS classes , by Andrew Del Prete

Jason Beggs' personal site , built with Tailwind and optimized with PurgeCSS

Building a Login Page with Tailwind CSS , tutorial by Mustafa Ehsan

Introducing Tailwind CSS on Scotch.io by Ezeugwu Paschal

Sponsors:

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Codeship , check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

Tailwind CSS Homepage
Tailwind CSS GitHub repository
Tailwind CSS discussion forum

@tailwindcss on Twitter

"CSS Utility Classes and Separation of Concerns" , Adam's post on moving from "semantic" CSS to utility-first

"Rebuilding Laravel.io with Tailwind CSS" , a video walkthrough of implementing a design with Tailwind

Sponsors:

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Links:

Diana's personal website

Primer , GitHub's design system

Primer modules on GitHub

"Introducing Design Systems into Chaos" , Diana's recent talk on her work on design systems at GitHub

Percy , a visual regression testing tool

Primer CSS on Twitter

GitHub Design on Twitter

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 a new page
Strategies for making things look professional without graphic design skills

Sponsors:

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Links:

Steve's Blog

Little UI Details , a collection of Steve's hot design tips
Google Fonts, prefiltered

"12 Google Fonts You Can't Go Wrong With" , by Steve

System Font Stack courtesy of CSS-Tricks

Inter UI font family (formerly "Interface")
WhatFont Chrome Extension
Fonts In Use
Dribbble color picker

"Color in UI Design" by Erik Kennedy (great resource on HSL)

Sketch , design tool for macOS

Figma , cross-platform design tool

"Building a professional design tool for the web" , on how Figma is written in C++ and compiled to asm.js

"Epicenter Design" by 37signals

Doodle , example of a small UI

Example login page , from Shippo
Refactoring UI "Redesigning Laravel.io" case study

Zondicons , Steve's free SVG icon set

Hero Patterns , Steve's free SVG background pattern gallery

Pushsilver , example of Hero Patterns in use

Heroicons , Steve's premium marketing icon kit

Topics include:

Why you shouldn't start with SaaS
How to find ideas from client projects
What to do before you make a landing page
Why your first product doesn't have to be the one that makes you rich
Using open source to build an audience

Sponsors:

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Codeship

Links:

Getting Real by 37signals (now Basecamp)

Startups for the Rest of Us podcast

Storemapper , interview with Tyler Tringas for IndieHackers
Pippin's Plugins

The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping by Rob Walling

The Freedom Ladder by Justin Jackson

"The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job" , story of how Adam released his first product and went independent

Marketing for Developers , Justin's book and course

Refactoring UI landing page
Justin's Laracon 2017 Talk

Topics include:

How their approaches have changed over time
Feature tests vs. unit tests, when to use each
Testing code that interacts with external services
Using fakes instead of mocks
Contract tests
Testing view data vs. rendered HTML

Sponsors:

Rollbar , sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
Codeship

Links:

Test-Driven Laravel , Adam's testing course
Laravel Horizon test suite

Laravel Fakes documentation

"Don't Mock What You Don't Own" , Adam's screencast on testing wrappers for external services

"Writing Your Own Test Doubles" , Adam's blog post on using fakes instead of mocks

"Preventing API Drift with Contract Tests" , Adam's screencast on using traits to create contract tests between fake and real implementations

Topics include:

What is PostCSS, really?
PostCSS vs. other preprocessors like Less and Sass
Examples of things PostCSS can do
How to use PostCSS to add your own features to CSS
How to disguise custom features as valid CSS so PostCSS will parse it
Porting Tailwind CSS from Less to PostCSS and why it's been awesome

Sponsors:

Rollbar , sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
Codeship

Links:

Tailwind CSS , Adam's upcoming CSS framework

CSS Utility Classes and "Separation of Concerts" , blog post explaining the motivation behind Tailwind
PostCSS.org
cssnext

"Create Your Own Plugin" , PostCSS tutorial at tuts+
PostCSS API documentation

Topics include:

General project structure
Dealing with initial load flicker
Sharing routes between Vue and your server
Handling authorization rules on the client
Comparing strategies for getting data into your Vue components
Best practices for sharing state between sibling components
Signs you should extract a child component
Using Vue to wrap up third-party libraries

Sponsors:

Rollbar , sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
Codeship

Links:

Vue.js
All Vue.js lessons on Laracasts

Ziggy , package for sharing routes between Laravel and Vue

Promise.takeAtLeast , helper Adam uses to slow down fast AJAX calls

Custom Events in Vue

Vuex , state management library for Vue
Turbolinks

Simple State Management , from the Vue documentation

They also discuss the benefits of using a Turbolinks-style approach for small teams, and how Turbolinks on mobile compares to other popular tools like Ionic.

Sponsors:

Rollbar , sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
Codeship

Links:

Turbolinks
Turbolinks iOS adapter
Turbolinks Android adapter

Turbolinks 5: I Can't Believe It's Not Native! , presentation by Sam Stephenson

Hybrid Sweet Spot: Native navigation, web content , article on how Basecamp builds mobile apps by DHH

Ionic , Angular based mobile framework
Turbolinks lessons at Laracasts

They talk about the problems this approach has solved for them, the surprising workflow benefits, and some tips and tricks for using this approach well.

Sponsors:

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Codeship

Links:

BEM , the Block Element Modifier CSS methodology

About HTML semantics and front-end architecture , a blog post by Nicolas Gallagher that heavily inspired the way Adam writes CSS

Implementing Designs with Utility-Focused CSS , a recorded live stream where you can watch Adam implement a design using his work-in-progress CSS framework

Beard , David Hemphill's utility framework

Tachyons , a popular utility framework

fractures utility framework

turrettcss utility framework

Adam talks about some of the UI design challenges he and Steve have been trying to solve, and shares some of the creative solutions they came up with.

Sponsors:

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Links:

PushSilver , David's invoicing app
David's fight video

PushSilver discount , just for Full Stack Radio listeners

Interviews with Laura Roeder , the founder of MeetEdgar

KiteTail , Adam's checkout platform

Building KiteTail #6 , newsletter update with lots of UI design details

BidSketch , proposal software tool with the "see a sample" email capture call-to-action

Adam gives an update on gracefully handling errors in the KiteTail checkout process, launching Zttp as an open-source package, and how he used Lumen to power the Zttp integration test suite.

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Links:

PushSilver Infinite pre-launch page

"How to Double Your Trial-to-Paid Conversion Rate with Onboarding" , Rob Walling's talk at SaaSFest 2016

Zttp on GitHub

Lumen , the Laravel microframework
The Lumen server behind Zttp's test suite

"Test-Driving Webhook Failures" , the live stream where Adam and David worked through the HTTP testing approach that inspired the Zttp test suite

Craft and Commerce , the ConvertKit conference Adam is attending this month
"Building KiteTail"

Adam shares the details behind his decision to bring on a co-founder for KiteTail, talks the collaboration process when working on an app with somebody else, and give an update on where he's at with getting KiteTail integrated into the Test-Driven Laravel course app.

Sponsors:

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Links:

PushSilver , David's invoicing app

KiteTail , Adam's checkout platform

"Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business" by Jason Cohen
Sketch's non-subscription annual pricing model

Zttp , the underground fight club style HTTP library

Steve Schoger , Adam's KiteTail co-founder

Zondicons SVG icon library by Steve

Zondicons Blade package to easily embed inline SVG icons in Laravel applications

Hero Patterns , free repeating SVG background patterns by Steve

Heroicons SVG marketing icon library by Steve

Building KiteTail , details about KiteTail live streams, newsletter, etc.

Previous KiteTail live streams on Adam's YouTube channel

Topics include:

Thermostat.io and NPS surveys
Charging more vs. charging less
Finding a niche for PushSilver and how to appeal to that niche
One-time purchase lifetime plans for SaaS
Percentage-based vs. tiered pricing

Sponsors:

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Links:

Thermostat.io , Ian's new NPS survey tool

PushSilver , David's invoicing app

KiteTail , Adam's checkout platform

Jesse Mecham on Founder Chats , talking about selling YNAB on the Steam store
Net Promoter Score

They chat about topics like:

Dogfooding Cron Dog in PushSilver
Dealing with complex validation
Why we hate auto-saving UIs
Validation issues when supporting "draft" models
Expanding the scope of KiteTail
Different ways to handle client-side image preview
Building a Cron Dog SDK

Sponsors:

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Links:

MicroConf

Crondog , David's scheduled webhook app

PushSilver , David's invoicing app

KiteTail , Adam's checkout platform

ConvertKit , the app Adam uses for email that helped inspire the new direction for KiteTail

"The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job" , Adam's blog post about his first book launch

We also talk a lot about different strategies for securing webhooks, and what we're looking forward to at MicroConf .

Sponsors:

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Links:

Crondog , David's new recurring task app

KiteTail , Adam's new checkout app
How GitHub secures webhooks

HMAC on Wikipedia

Laravel Spark , the boilerplate Laravel skeleton David's using
MicroConf Start Edition

David introduces Crondog , the new product he's working on to help developers manage dynamic recurring tasks in their applications.

Adam introduces KiteTail , an app that lets you create webhook-driven hosted checkout pages; something he wishes he'd had when he launched his course.

From here on out, Full Stack Radio will follow David and Adam's journey building these new products; discussing interesting technical, design, and business challenges they face along the way.

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Crondog , David's new recurring task app

KiteTail , Adam's new checkout app

PushSilver , David's existing invoicing app

DonorGive , an app David worked on that motivated him to build CronDog

Laravel Spark , the boilerplate Laravel skeleton David's using

"What's KiteTail?" , Adam's blog post introducing KiteTail

Test-Driven Laravel , Adam's course app that inspired him to build KiteTail
MicroConf Start Edition

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Michelle on Twitter
Stripe Elements
Stripe's Engineering Blog
Stripe Checkout
Stripe Radar

Building Stripe's API , by Amber Feng

Move Fast, Don't Break Your API , by Amber Feng

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Form Requests in Laravel

After Validation hooks in Laravel

"Stripe CVC and ZIP checks can be bypassed" forum post

Custom Rule Objects , enhancement Adam is working on
HTML5 Form Validation

As I mention in the show, if you've been thinking about checking out Test-Driven Laravel , the course is still available at the early access price for the next few weeks:

Learn more about Test-Driven Laravel Early Access

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Test-Driven Laravel , Adam's TDD course
Noel's blog

Rails 4 Test Prescriptions , Noel's book on testing

Take My Money , Noel's book on payment handling
Noel's screencast on floating point precision

RubyMoney gem
ngrok

vcr gem

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Drip

Scaling SaaS , Derrick's blog

The Drip stack:

Ruby on Rails
AWS
PostgreSQL
Sidekiq
SendGrid
Redis

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Test-Driven Laravel Early Access , Adam's new TDD course

wesbos.com , Wes' blog and personal website

JavaScript 30 , Wes' new free course
The Getting Things Done methodology
Things
Todoist
Alfred
TextExpander

Send and Archive in Gmail

Behind the Scenes of Wes' course platform
Wes Bos on YouTube

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Test-Driven Laravel Early Access , Adam's TDD course

UserScape , Ian's business

HelpSpot , UserScape's help desk product

Shady Tactics in our Midst from Ian's blog
Shady Tactics, Round 2

Securing the Five-Figure Sale , Ian's new free eBook on landing enterprise sales
The Lean Startup

Edgar , social media tool with invite-only sign up flow

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Putting Your Laravel Controllers on a Diet , an older blog post by Adam on form objects

Form Requests in Laravel

Fineuploader , JS file upload library

DropzoneJS , another JS file upload library

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Kyle's personal website
thoughtbot on Dribbble

Design for Developers on Upcase

Using System UI Fonts In Web Design by Marcin Wichary

Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor

Should "Yes, delete it" be red, or green? on the UX Stack Exchange

7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI by Erik D. Kennedy
Panda Chrome Extension

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Test Driven Laravel , Adam's upcoming video course
Laravel
Laravel Valet
Laravel Spark
Laravel Passport
Example of splitting controllers
Basecamp Rake Stats
DHH Resources on Rails presentation
Nitpick CI

"I don't love the single responsibility principle" by Marco Cecconi
Martin Fowler on Tell Don't Ask

Chasing Perfect , Adam's talk at Laracon 2015
Adam's base Blade layout

Topics include:

What exactly is BDD?
Is BDD a technical or non-technical practice?
How do you get started with BDD?
How do you keep the number of system tests low to keep your test suite fast?
What's your strategy for dealing with external services in acceptance tests?
What are the advantages of using Cucumber even as a solo developer working on a side project?

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Test Driven Laravel , Adam's upcoming video course
Matt's Blog
Matt's notes from Dan North's Awesome Acceptance Testing talk
Cucumber School
User Story Mapping
Impact Mapping
Introducing Example Mapping
The Rails Testing Pyramid
The Testing Iceberg

The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design talk by Michael Feathers

The Training Wheels Came Off , Aslak Hellesøy on removing the built-in step definitions in Cucumber-Rails
Cucumber Blog
Cucumber on GitHub
The Cucumber Book

Topics include:

The motivation for rewriting Vue.js from scratch
What is a virtual DOM and what are the benefits?
How does Vue.js 2.0 stack up performance-wise? (spoiler alert, it's fast )
When should you use templates vs. a render function?
Why two-way props have been deprecated and what you should do instead
Best practices for dealing with custom component events
The 1.0 to 2.0 upgrade path
Building native mobile applications with Vue.js and Weex

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Test Driven Laravel , Adam's upcoming video course

Refactoring to Collections , get 25% off using the coupon "pnwphp"
Vue.js
Announcing Vue.js 2.0
Vue.js 2.0 Documentation
JS Framework Performance Benchmarks

Snabbdom , virtual DOM library
JSX plugin for Vue.js
Using v-on with Custom Events
Vue Migration Helper teaser

Weex , framework for building native mobile applications with Vue.js
Vue.js on Twitter
Vue.js Newsletter
Vue.js Feed

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Test Driven Laravel , Adam's upcoming video course
Ember.js

QUnit testing framework
Ember Testing Documentation
Toran's TDD talk at EmberConf 2015

Outside-In TDD presentation , one of Toran's more recent talks
Toran's upcoming Outside-In TDD Workshop

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Electron
Electron Blog
Atom
Electron API Demos

Photon , Electron UI kit

Built on Electron , Electron app directory

Mojibar , emoji searcher for OSX

HyperTerm , JS/HTML/CSS terminal

Nylas N1 , email client

WebTorrent , streaming torrent client

Visual Studio Code , code editor

Awesome Electron , useful resources for creating apps with Electron

Devtron , Electron DevTools extension

Spectron , Electron testing framework

electron-quick-start , starter repo for new Electron apps

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Sara's Blog
SVG vs Icon Fonts Cage Match
grunticon
A Designer's Guide to Grumpicon
Making the Switch Away from Icont Fonts to SVG
A complete guide to SVG fallbacks
Overview of SVG Sprite Creation Techniques
All SVG articles on Sara's blog
svgo
svgomg
The Smashing Book 5
Practical SVG book

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Test Driven Laravel , Adam's latest project

Giant Robots podcast

How We Test Rails Applications on the thoughtbot blog
Capybara
Capybara WebKit
RSpec
factory_girl

The Rails Testing Pyramid on the Code Climate blog

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thoughtbot on Elixir and Phoenix
The Bikeshed Podcast
Exercism.io

Elixir , the functional programming language

Phoenix , the Elixir web framework

Ecto , the Phoenix database layer

Programming Elixir book by Dave Thomas

Programming Phoenix book by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim

Phoenix is not Rails by Chris McCord

The Bikeshed Episode 54 , where Derek talks about dates and times in Elixir

Pact , the Elixir dependency injection library by Blake Williams

Elixir on Slack

Elixir Sips screencasts

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Joel's Blog
The Elm Homepage
The ML language
The Elixir language
Exercism.io

Richard Feldman , working on "Elm in Action" book

"What is functional programming?" blog series by Kris Jenkins

Fizzbuzz in Elixir library

Haskell Programming from first principles book

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Snook's Blog

SMACSS , Jonathan's book
Atomic CSS
"Staffing a Design Systems Team"
"Why I Value Truly Responsive Web Design"
"Container Queries: Once More Unto the Breach"
Scott Jehl on container queries

CSS-Element-Queries library