Podcast: The Web Platform Podcast


The Web Platform Podcast is a developer discussion that dives deep into ‘all things’ web. We discuss everything from developing for mobile to building HDTV software. From wearables & robotics to user experience & mentoring, we bring to our listeners everything related to building products & services for The Web Platform of today, tomorrow, and beyond.

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Recent Episodes

  • 207: Qwik

    Danny takes to the virtual road and conducts and investigative report while Erik and Justin contemplate the nature of lantern hanging in the post-interview follow-up. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast....

  • 206: Astro

    In this investigative report, Erik interview Fred K. Schott, CEO of Astro Inc and founder of the Astro, an all-in-one web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatfo...

  • 205: The Sad State of Job Interviews

    It's not you it's me. Danny, Erik, and Justin discuss the problem with web dev interviews, the questions, the horror stories, and why they root for everyone who walks into their office looking for a job. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources &...

  • 204: The Good, The Bad, The Design Systems

    The Man with No Name Returns! Well, not so much. For Erik, Danny, and Justin, the discussion turns to the love and hate relationship of design systems. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/204-the-go...

  • 203: Learning Losses For the Web Platform

    Do developers still learn the foundational aspects of the Web Platform? Justin and Erik dates themselves and argue about what them there whippersnappers are learning about building on the web platform today. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resourc...

  • 202: Meditations on Microfrontends

    Danny returns from an meditating in the woods and of a discussion around microfrontends emerges. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/202-meditations-on-microfrontends   Follow The Web Platform podca...

  • 201: Evolution of Modern JavaScript live @ OpenJS World 2020

    To say the way we use and write JavaScript has evolved since the launch of ES2015 is an understatement. Atomics, TypedArrays, globalThis, and function generators are just a few ways JavaScript has grown up to meet the needs of a growing web platform. But...

  • 200: Pika and Snowpack

    Episode 200 marks the return of Amal Hussein back to the panel! Amal, Danny, and Erik chat with Fred K. Schott about Pika, Snowpack, and the future of web development and tooling. Snowpack is an innovative approach to creating fast dev environments withou...

  • 199: Deno

    Deno is a secure runtime for JavaScript & TypeScript created by the creator of Node.js (Ryan Dahl). David Else, software developer at Else Web Development, has been working with the project for a while aND talks with Danny and Erik about the latest Deno r...

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  • 197: Modern HTML

    Dave Rupert, podcaster and web developer, talks with us about modern HTML practices. In a world full of JavaScript where does HTML & CSS fit in? What are the roles of Web Components and web standards? Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & mo...

  • 196: Lean Web Dev

    It is a “wild web” out there and with all the complicated tooling and frameworks for web developers building web applications can be complex and obtuse. Chris Ferdinandi talks about simplifying our developer experience while focusing on the end user. Chri...

  • 195: Platforms and Priorities

    Brian Kardell, Developer Relations at Igalia, talks us through specs and features in standards and why those get prioritized or deprioritized. What is the ‘special sauce’ that goes into getting a feature pushed into standards and then implemented across b...

  • 194: Off the Main Thread

    For a lot of software developers running code in separate threads is a common tool to reach for. On the web they are not nearly as widely used but can be just as powerful. Join us this week as Surma talks us through just how useful workers can be and some...

  • 193: Modern Web Toolchains

    What is a web developer toolchain? It seems that, like most web development questions, it depends on many factors. There are build tools, testing, CI, and much more. Danny and Erik go through some of their current tools they use for development and explai...

  • 192: Ionic and React are Friends

    In 2019, when developers think of Ionic and particularly the Ionic Framework they might think of Angular and Stencil. What about that VDOM thing called React? That’s on the other side of web developers minds...right? Actually…..it’s everywhere and now it’...

  • 191: The State of Webcomponents

    Web component have been a favorite topic here on the Web Platform Podcast for a while now. After years of waiting Web components finally seem like they are ready for prime time. Browser support is great and only getting better and more and more frameworks...

  • 190: All The Angular

    As a treat for the start of your summer Angular is has a new major release. Angular version 8 brings some exciting features to both the core libraries as well as the Angular CLI. Stephen Fluin joins us this week to talk all about what is new in Angular ve...

  • 189: Developing with VSCode

    VSCode has become incredibly popular, very quickly. We're joined this week by Ahmad Awais, the creator of vscode.pro and the insanely popular VSCode theme Shades of Purple and learn about the VSCode extension ecosystem and how beneficial it can be to have...

  • 188: You Don't Know JS?

    Kyle Simpson, the author of the extremely popular "You Don't Know JS?" book series has been a JavaScript developer for 20 years which is a long time considering JavaScript is only 24. Join us this week and witness Kyles obvious passion for the language, h...

  • 187: An update on WebRTC

    Get an update on everything that is happening in the wonderful world of WebRTC. WebRTC powers a staggering number of applications most of us use every day and has some exciting use cases you probably never even thought of. As a developer WebRTC is certain...

  • 186: How we got into web development

    We all got here somehow. This week Danny Blue and Leon Revill share how they got into web development. The web is a big place so how did those who do this as a career end up here? Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebpl...

  • 185: Houdini

    Houdini is a set of specs and APIs which expose low-level CSS capabilities allowing developers to break the mould and capitalize on performance gains. Surma who is a web advocate at Google joins us this week to enlighten us on the use-cases and capabiliti...

  • 184: MDN Web Docs

    Finding documentation about the web and its various platform APIs used to be a fragmented experienced across a wide range of sites with not quite the right information. When all hope seemed lost, Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs became the clearin...

  • 183: Web Standards, DevTools, and Browser Preview for Visual Studio Code

    Since Visual Studio Code burst onto the code editor scene, the steady improvements have made a number of web-related development tasks easier to handle. In this episode, we speak with web standards contributor and PM on the Visual Studio Code Kenneth Auch...

  • 182: Calibre and Web Performance Monitoring

    With an ever-expanding array of devices, connectivity, and growing usage in new markets, the need for web performance has never been stronger. Beyond single testing for a given metric, how do you achieve and monitor your progress? To help us learn more ab...

  • 181: Learning Design

    For many developers, design can be a mystifying topic. For many designers, writing code isn't their daily task. In this episode designer and developer Erik Kennedy walks through common approaches and talks about who designers and developers can better wor...

  • 180: web.dev

    web.dev is a new developer resource released at Chrome Dev Summit last year to help developers with topics such as fast load times, network resilience, SEO and more. With integrated lighthouse, the automated performance auditing tool, it can analyse your...

  • 179: Developing For Voice

    Voice interfaces are more common than ever and devices like the Google Home and Amazon's Echo are becoming deeply ingrained in our day-to-day lives. This week we talk about developing for voice both for the web and beyond. We discuss how developing voice-...

  • 178: Chrome Dev Summit Recap

    This week we cover many of the great things announced at Chrome Dev Summit 2018. We talk about some of the exciting new things coming to the web, the new resource for web developers (web.dev) how the Squoosh app brings together all of the latest modern be...

  • 177: Community Outreach

    Tyler McGinnis joins us this week to talk about the importance of community outreach, how he got into teaching and what keeps him going. We talk about how publishing content like blog posts and other training material can generate exciting opportunities a...

  • 176: VisBug

    Feeling empowered to design on the web can be a challenge. With the recently demoed Project VisBug by Adam Argyle (@argyleink) at Chrome Dev Summit, that's changing. VisBug allows any website to become an artboard to be shaped, allowing designers and deve...

  • 175: Gatsby

    Gatsby brings together React, Webpack and modern JavaScript in a way that makes a performant experience the default experience. In this weeks episode join us with Jason Lengstorf and learn how Gatsby can do this and some of the other great products that G...

  • 174: Brave Browser

    Brave is a modern browser that puts the user first. This week learn all about Brave, find out why it's faster than Chrome and Safari and how it uses blockchain technology to pay users for their attention and content creators for their work. Visit the webs...

  • 173: Nuxt.js

    Nuxt.js is a framework for creating Vue.js applications, you can choose between Universal, Static Generated or Single Page application. Vue.js has exploded in popularity and along with it, some excellent tools have been created. This week on the Web Platf...

  • 172: Behind the scenes of Babel 7

    Babel, a build tool that has enabled web developers to build tomorrows JavaScript today, has finally hit it’s version 7 release. It’s been a long 3 years and Henry Zhu (@left_pad) along with the Babel core team have a lot to share with us. In this episode...

  • 171: CSS In-Depth

    CSS can seem like magic sometimes, but it really isn't! Join us with Aimee Knight and take an in-depth look at how the browser actually uses CSS. We talk about performance, hardware acceleration, debugging CSS issues, common pitfalls and all the things to...

  • 170: Performance Testing Tools

    This week learn why performance testing is so important, how to sell it to the business and which are Justin's favourite tools for getting the job done. Performance testing is a big topic but it's never been easier to get started thanks to simple and easy...

  • 169: Extending the DOM with Web Components

    This week we talk about Customized Built-in Elements, part of the Custom Elements specification which hasn't had as much attention as other parts of the Web Component specs. Customized Built-in Elements allow developers to extend native DOM elements and a...

  • 168: JavaScript & SEO

    This week we discuss the important topic of SEO and how JavaScript impacts what search bots are able to crawl on your sites. Learn what developers can do to improve SEO for their sites which rely on JavaScript along with some tips and tricks from SEO expe...

  • 167: PWAs with Alex Russell

    Alex Russell has been around, he has seen some things, and now he wants to share it with us! Come join our hosts as we dive into Alex's background and learn how he came to hold some of his views on many things. Browsers, JavaScript and web frameworks, he...

  • 166: Samsung Internet

    This week our panel chats with Ada Rose Cannon (@lady_ada_king) all about Samsung Internet. Haven’t heard of Samsung Internet? You may not be alone but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some very cool things happening. Learn more about how Samsung is contrib...

  • 165: JS Unit Testing Tools & Best Practices

    Join Danny, Leon, and Amal for a discussion on unit testing modern web applications. Amal has recently taught a pilot testing workshop in Boston with Gleb from Cypress who was on the show last week. She is excited to evangelize the importance of unit test...

  • 164: Cypress.io

    Guests Brian Mann and Gleb Bahmutov join our hosts to discuss Cypress, and open source test runner that's built for the modern web. With fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser, the show discusses how cypress utilizes the platf...

  • 163: RxJS

    This week on the Web Platform Podcast our panel talks with Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) and Ben Lesh (@BenLesh) about RxJS. We find out just what these fancy sounding Observables are and how they help solve problems. Our panel and guests also discuss the importa...

  • 162: WebAssembly

    This week on the Web Platform Podcast our panel chats about WebAssembly and the future of the web. What exactly is WebAssembly? Is it a replacement for JavaScript? Do I need to learn C++ if I want to use it? Sooooo many questions about this very cool tech...

  • 161: UNPKG

    This week on the Web Platform Podcast Amal, Danny & Justin talk with Michael Jackson about his project UNPKG and how it can help make front-end development easier. Our panel also chats about the current state of front-end tooling including the JavaScript...

  • 160: NG-CONF 2018

    Ng-conf has happened! There were a bunch of excellent talks and and excellent people. Jeff Whelpley was one of them! Jeff helps us dive into what is coming in Angular. Angular 6, the new Angular CLI, RxJs 6 and more! There is a ton to unpack in this week’...

  • 159: lit-html - HTML Templates via JavaScript Template Literals

    This week we chat with lit-html creator Justin Fagnani. Lit-html is a framework agnostic library that uses new JavaScript features to efficiently render HTML templates. In this episode, you’ll learn what lit-html is in detail and why it was created. We co...

  • 158: A Developer's Guide into the World of Web Standards

    The world of web standards can be complicated and confusing, Jory Burson joins us to help make things clearer! We discuss the different standards organisations, why standards are important and why it's good for developers to get involved. Visit the websit...

  • 157: Cross-Platform Development with Ionic and Capacitor

    Ionic has focused on Angular for many years, but the recent move to Web Components has opened up new and exciting framework agnostic possibilities. Leon, Danny and Justin talk to Mike Hartington from Ionic about this and a new project called Capacitor a c...

  • 156: React 16 - Fiber and Beyond

    In the past few years React has become a mainstay in the front end development community and React 16 has more to offer than ever. This week our hosts chat with Andrew Clark of the React core team about some of React’s history as well as some of the new e...

  • 155: WeDeploy

    Infrastructure is hard, that is one of the big reasons "the cloud" has become such a popular option, but it can still be difficult. As the website says: "WeDeploy helps you build from simple to complex applications. We give you predefined services that ca...

  • 154: StackBlitz

    Modern web development has a lot of cool stuff, but that cool stuff can come at a cost. Getting a development environment set up can be a task even for folks that know what they are doing. Enter StackBlitz, a way to get up and running with Angular, Ionic...

  • 153: Microsoft Edge in 2018

    This week we are joined by Patrick Kettner to find out what's new with Microsoft Edge. We ask about Web Component support, speak about the PWA story for Edge and learn a lot about how browsers decide which specifications to implement next. Also, find out...

  • 152: Firefox, what's new & what's coming in 2018

    You've seen the ads, you've heard the name, now let's take a dive into all things Firefox and Firefox Quantum. Our hosts talk with Matthew Claypotch about where Firefox is and where it is going in the future. Web Components, Progressive Web apps and perfo...

  • 151: Crystal Ball Fortunes in 2018

    This week Justin, Danny, and Leon talk about what they think is going to be important for the web in 2018. We talk about AI and an interesting experiment Danny has got involved with along with Leon’s excitement for customized built-in elements an unadopte...

  • WorkBox - A Developer Toolkit for Service Workers and Beyond

    Episode 150, we made it! This week on The Web Platform Podcast our hosts Justin Ribeiro, Amal Hussein and Leon Revill chat with Jeff Posnick and Matt Gaunt about WorkBox. Service workers are becoming more and more important to the web in the world of prog...

  • 149: Angular - A Platform for the Modern Web

    This week Michael Prentice and Stephen Fluin join Danny Blue and Amal Hussein to chat about the current state of Angular. They go over the path to get to the Angular as it is now as well as the new features available in the latest version (5.1.1 as of thi...

  • 148: What's new in the world of WebRTC

    Chad Hart joins us for this episode to discuss what's happening in the world of WebRTC. We start with an introduction to the technology, what it can do and who is using it right now. We then discuss how WebRTC handles low-grade devices and connections and...

  • 147: Next Generation JavaScript Today with Babel

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

  • 146: Web Authentication with Google Identity

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

  • 145: Thanksgiving Special: What We're Thankful for on the Web Today

    Summary Hosts Amal, Danny, Leon, and Justin kick of the start of the holiday season by taking a moment to reflect on what they're thankful for when it comes to the web. From platform APIs like Service Worker, to the latest ECMAScript features like arrow f...

  • 144: Vaadin - UI Components for Web Apps

    Summary Amahdy AbdelAziz from Vaadin joins us to share stories of where Vaadin got its name and awesome logo! We also talk about some decisions Vaadin made when creating its latest set of components including why they chose Web Components and Polymer. Thi...

  • 143: Introducing ReasonML

    Summary This week our panel talks with Ken Wheeler all about ReasonML. What is it? Why does it exist? Why should you care? Taking a systems language like OCaml and using it as a base for writing web applications might sound intimidating but Ken assuages o...

  • 142: Redux & it's Ecosystem

    Summary This week Mark Erikson a Redux maintainer joins us to talk about Redux and its Ecosystem. Discover what Redux is, where it came from, who should use it, answers to common questions and so much more. This Week in Web News TypeScript 2.6 RC availab...

  • 141: Web Animations API

    Summary Rachel Nabors joins us to chat all about the Web Animations API. Learn what benefits this API provides developers and when to use the Web Animations API instead of CSS or third-party JavaScript libraries. Find out how Rachel still delivers great w...

  • 140: Overview of Couchbase

    Summary This week Nic Raboy and Matt Groves talk to us about the history and future of the popular Open Source Couchbase project. Learn about some of the great features the noSQL database has to offer and how you can get started with Couchbase today. Reso...

  • 139: The state of CSS moving forward in 2018

    Summary This week Erik Meyer joins us to talk about the past, present and future of CSS. Delving into some web history, discussing why CSS can be overlooked in regards to app development and the reasons people can be off-put by CSS this episode is a delig...

  • 138: Stencil

    Summary This week Justin Willis and Adam Bradley join us to talk about Stencil a new tool for building Web Components. We talk about how Stencil came about and what problems it solves and we get into how Stencil works its magic to provide features such as...

  • 137: Polymer Roadmap from GDD Europe

    Summary This week is a special episode! Recorded face-to-face at GDD Europe Amal Hussein interviews Wendy Ginsberg about life working on Polymer and what’s next for the project. Resources Polymer 3.0 preview: npm and ES6 Modules Hands-on with the Polyme...

  • 136: Polymer Summit Recap

    Summary This week the crew is joined by Lars Knudsen (@denladeside) and Kenneth Christiansen (@kennethrohde) to talk about the recent Polymer Summit and all of the awesome stuff revealed there. Are web components really ready? Who is using web components?...

  • 135: hyperHTML

    Summary This week Andrea Giammarchi joins us to talk about his latest project hyperHTML! A lightweight Virtual DOM alternative. Andrea talks us through what the project is all about and what he discovered about template literals to make it happen. We talk...

  • 134: Modern Web APIs

    Summary This week Paul Kinlan the lead for Chrome developer relations talks to us about Modern Web APIs including Web Share and Shape Detection! Paul talks us through the origin trials process which allows new APIs such as these to get into developers han...

  • 133: Ionic & Web Components

    Justin Willis from Ionic joins us this week to talk about hybrid app development with Ionic and some amazing work they have been doing with Web Components. Justin gives us an overview of the Ionic project, its background and how it makes building hybrid a...

  • 132: Vue.js

    This week we talk about the exciting JavaScript framework Vue.js! Chad Campbell the author of the training course "Vue.js: Getting Started" educates us on the benefits of Vue.js which includes simplicity and performance. We talk about the tooling story fo...

  • 131: Google I/O Recap

    Danny, Justin & Amal get together with Kenneth Christiansen to talk about this year’s Google I/O. With everyone having attended I/O the show is packed full of great content with discussions on AI, Shape detection, PWAs, Polymer, Kotlin and so much more! R...

  • 130: Web Worker Adoption

    This week on The Web Platform Podcast your hosts ask the question “Why aren’t Web Workers more widely adopted”? Your hosts talk about what problems can be solved by Web Workers providing some interesting use cases and talk about their own experiences in p...

  • 129: Elix Project

    In this episode, Leon and Justin sit down with Jan Miksovsky and Rob Bearman of of the recently released Elix Project. Elix is a community-driven collection of high-quality web components for common user interface patterns such as lists, menus, dialogs, c...

  • 128: Developer Bias

    Developer bias is something all developers deal with either knowingly or not. Trey Shugart the creator of SkateJS joins us this week to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of developer bias. Following up on his talk at Web Componente Remote Conferenc...

  • 127: PouchDB

    Nolan Lawson a PM at Microsoft Edge joins us today to talk about PouchDB a popular open source project he’s a maintainer of. PouchDB is an open-source JavaScript database inspired by Apache CouchDB that is designed to run well within the browser. In this...

  • 126: Gold Standard Checklist for Web Components

    This week we are joined with special guests Jan Miksovsky and Rob Bearman from Component Kitchen to talk about their work on the Web Component Gold Standard. The Gold Standard is an open source project which outlines best practices for creating Web Compon...

  • 125: Angular CLI and things

    Tooling is an ever important topic in the world of web development. In this episode, Danny explains to Justin and Leon the upcoming features in Angular CLI, a tool that makes it easy to create an application that already works, right out of the box. Resou...

  • 124: Web Components, TypeScript, and Bears Oh My

    Web Components Remote Conference is a two day conference all about Web Components. Kito Mann (@kito99) will be delivering a very interesting talk “Beautiful Web Apps with Polymer and TypeScript”. This episode covers why Web Components are important, what...

  • 123: Universal Web Components

    Web Components Remote Conference is a two day conference all about Web Components. Jordan Last (@lastmjs) will be delivering a very interesting talk “Universal Web Components” which takes the idea of Web Components for GUIs, throws it out the window and t...

  • 122: JAMStack & Static Applications

    Static Web Applications have evolved quite a bit over the past few years. They are now longer just a flat file with scripts added. Now they are fully functional application stacks. This might sound strange to some but the truth is out there. Listen to Bri...

  • 121 The WebComponents.org Relaunch

    WebComponents.org have long been a great resource for learning and understanding web components. Recently, Google along with several other developers have worked hard to make the site a place not only to consume information on web components, but to share...

  • 120 Async TDD & Other Pyramids of Doom

    Justin Searls chats with us on testing Asynchronous JavaScript as well as best practices for Continuous Integration, Unit testing vs. Integration testing, and tools we can use to help us understand how to test code. Resources Test Double - https://testdo...

  • 119 Testing Testing Testing

    Danny, Erik, & Mark discuss their experiences and current challenges in testing code across their applications and services. Resources Panic - https://github.com/gundb/panic-server Aphyr, Kyle Kingsbury, testing network partitions - https://aphyr.com/po...

  • 118 Understanding GraphQL

    Corey Speisman (@cdspeis) & Ben Wilson (@benwilson512) talk with the panel about the Facebook API Query Language known as GraphQL and it’s various implementations including the FOSS Github project - Absinthe. Resources GraphQL - http://graphql.org/ Githu...

  • 117 Vivaldi

    Vivaldi is a new browser that focuses on user customization and experience. In this episode, designer Atle Mo (@subtlepattern) and developer / designer Henrik Helmers (@helmers) chat with us about what this might mean for web developers and what technolog...

  • 116 Practical SVG

    Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) returns to the show to chat about his most recent publication ‘Practical SVG’. Chris walks us through the ins and outs of working with SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). Chris is most known for on the web for masterminding codepen...

  • 115 Humor & Happiness

    Cornel Stefanache (@_cstefanache, @isMonkeyUser) talks about Monkeyuser.com,, laughter, and finding happiness at work & home. Resources Monkeyuser - http://www.monkeyuser.com/ Xkcd - http://xkcd.com/ What If? (Randall Munroe) - http://what-if.xkcd.com/ R...

  • 114 Trends & The Future

    Erik Isaksen(@eisaksen) & Mark Nadal (@marknadal) talk about trends in web development as an industry. They discuss technology communities and how they got involved. Mark grills Erik on how technology has changed over the years & what patterns he’s seen a...

  • 113 UpUp and Away

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

  • 112 Polymer Summit 2016

    A summary of the second Polymer Summit, a two day Web Component conference focused on Polymer. Chris Lorenzo (@chiefcll) & John Riviello (@johnriv), spoke on day 2 of the Summit on Comcast’s Polymer experiences. They share their thoughts with us on the ev...

  • 111 Extensible Web Components

    Jeremy Keith (@adactio), web guru & co-founder of ClearLeft, talks with us about the potential pitfalls and hopes on Progressive Enhancement with Web Components. Resources Extensible Web Components (2016) - https://adactio.com/journal/11052 Responsible W...

  • 110 The AMP Mobile Revolution

    Paul Bakaus (@pbakaus), Google Engineer, has recently been leading the AMP Project which is an open source initiative to optimize content for mobile devices using the web. AMP is heavily supported by several global news & media groups and has the SEO comm...

  • 109 CSS Performance and Maintenance

    Summary Harry Roberts (@CSSWizardry) talks with us about scaling CSS in code and across large teams. We also discuss the CSS in the Web Platform standards, the history of CSS, refactoring code, as well as projects like Houdini which aims ‘to jointly devel...

  • 108 Elm Revisited

    Summary It’s been awhile since we have chatted about Elm Lang. Richard Feldman (@rtfeldman), Developer at No Red Ink, returns to the podcast with Conner Ruhl (@connerruhl), Developer Operations at Carfax, in his podcast debut. The two Elm fanatics chat ab...

  • 107 HyperDev in 12 Parsecs

    Daniel X Moore (@STRd6) and Pirijan (@pketh) join our panel to discuss Hyperdev, A web based code editor aimed at making developers as productive as possible as quickly as possible. Is a web based IDE really a viable option for full stack production apps?...

  • 106 ARIA for Developers

    Brian Kardell (@briankardell) joins Erik, Justin, and Danny on the panel along with our guest Marcy Sutton (@MarcySutton) in a discussion on WAI ARIA attributes & how we should or shouldn’t be using these in the context of our applications. Resources Mar...

  • 105 Developing with Crosswalk

    Kenneth Christiansen (@kennethrohde) and Alexis Menard (@darktears) the creators of the crosswalk project talk to us about creating hybrid mobile apps using a consistent and powerful runtime environment across mobile, TV, desktop and IoT devices. We talk...

  • 104 RAIL and Web Performance

    Paul Lewis (@aerotwist) talks with us about how we can better optimize web page speeds as well as how to avoid glaring light on videos caused by bald headed smoothness...or something to that degree. With the rise of web traffic on mobile devices, develope...

  • 103: Articulating Design Decisions

    This week on the Web Platform Podcast Danny Blue and Amal Hussein chat with Tom Greever (@tomgreever), Author of ”Articulating Design Decisions”. Tom helps our hosts learn how to help communicate more effectively and we learn that maybe Danny is a jerk. L...

  • 102: Offline with GunDB

    Mark Nadal (@marknadal) joins Danny Blue, Justin RIbeiro and Leon Revil to chat about GunDB and all the challenges of developing a database, concurrency, and distributed systems. Our hosts and guest dive into these topics and even journey to space in the...

  • 101: Browser Wars & Standards Battles

    Brian Kardell (@briankardell) chats with us on Web Development and how it has evolved over the years.  We discuss the beginnings of HTML, Web standards bodies, the inception of The Extensible Web Manifesto, Chapters.io, and more. Resources Brians recent...

  • 100: Microsoft Edge

    Jacob Rossi (@jacobrossi) & Travis Leithead (@TravisLeithead) join us to discuss the current state and roadmap of the Microsoft Edge Platform. Resources Microsoft Edge Resources Developer Resources - https://dev.microsoftedge.com Platform Data  - http...

  • 99: Polymer Native

    Denis Radin (@PixelsCommander), Web Component advocate, has started work on a project called Polymer Native to enable developers to create part-hybrid, part-native applications using Web Components. This project aims to make it easier to get device specif...

  • 98: Server Side Web Components

    Software developer at Softwire, Tim Perry (@pimterry), has created a set of “Server Components”. These are simple, lightweight tools for “composable HTML rendering in Node.js, broadly following the Web Components browser specification, but on the server s...

  • 97: Predix UI & Polymer

    The views expressed by Eric Knudtson on The Web Platform Podcast episode 97 do not necessarily represent the views of GE Eric Knudtson (@vikingux) from GE Digital walks us through their Predix User Interface (Predix UI) Web Components library buil...

  • 96: DevOps & Chef

    Nathen Harvey (@nathenharvey), VP of Community Development at Chef Software, joins us to discuss modern devops culture, tools, and practices as well as how Chef Software can help teams automate, scale, and reproduce tasks, and environments. Nathen defined...

  • 95: Exploring JavaScript at Scale

    Sean Fioritto (@sfioritto) talks with the panel on building large web applications in JavaScript. Sounds easy enough? This episode goes into building with large teams, large codebases, legacy migration, team building, frameworks & libraries, code smells a...

  • 94: Reactive Programming in JavaScript

    Gleb Bahmutov (@bahmutov) chats with the panel on Reactive Programming in JavaScript. What is Reactive Programming? Join Gleb and the panel to learn about event streams, sequences over time, and how these help developers build complex JavaScript applicati...

  • 93: CSS Layout Composition & Modules

    Rachel Andrew (@RachelAndrew) , Managing Director and founder of edgeofmyseat.com (currently working exclusively on CMS Perch), talks withe panel on the mysterious ways of CSS Layout. Rachel has been speaking quite a lot on the subject in the developer sp...

  • 92: I/O 2016 Recap

    This week our panel talks with Kenneth Christiansen (@kennethrohde) about reactions and responses to Google I/O 2016. Listen to the goings on of I/O including news about Google products such as  Android as well as their web products. The panel digs into P...

  • 91: LeanUX & Collaboration With Creatives

    This week on the Web Platform Podcast Sam Quayle (@samquayle), Senior UX designer and front-end consultant at Valtech, joined us to discuss Lean UX with hosts Danny Blue, Justin Ribeiro, and Amal Hussein. Lean UX is a design approach which is fits the hig...

  • 90: Rethinking Data in Web Applications

    Michael Glukhovsky (@mglukhovsky), co-founder of the innovative Rethink brand, chats with us about two core free open source projects that are changing the ways we think of data in our web applications. Join us as we dive into the unique database known as...

  • 89: Docker All The Web Things

    This week on The Web Platform Podcast, Erik Isaksen, Danny Blue, and Leon Revill talk with Mano Marks (@ManoMarks) all about Docker and how containerized deployments can help you from the time you start your web project all the way to the time you need it...

  • 88: Cypress.io

    Summary Cypress.io is geared toward making testing easy and painless. Gleb Bahmutov (@bahmutov) and Brian Mann (@be_mann) chat with us on this upcoming project. Cypress eliminate the need for PhantomJS and Selenium. It aims to provide developers with inst...

  • 87: System.js and JSPM

    A chat with Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie) andLeon Revill (@RevillWeb) on JSPM & System.js. Amal has been using these technologies in her workplace for a long time. Now she shares her insights, experience, and knowledge with us. Leon has used JSPM for his va...

  • 86: Learning React.js

    Aimee Knight (@Aimee_Knight) , SoftwareEngineeratKuali & Developer hero chats with us about herexperienceslearning the React ecosystem. Coming from a primarilyAngularbackground can make learning React very different. Aimeeshares herfeelings on how develop...

  • 85: The Google Developer Expert Show

    The Google DeveloperExperts(GDE) program is a community of developers outside of Googlethatknow one or several Google developer products well.AdditionallyGDE's are leaders in the community that typically blog,speak atevents, or work on open source project...

  • 84: A Chat about Progressive Web Apps

    PWA's, or Progressive Web Applications are on the rise. Justin,Erik, & Danny talk about what we need to know as developersabout these apps

  • 83: An Introduction to Riot.js

    An Intro to Riot.js with core contributors GianlucaGuarini(@gianlucaguarini) & Richard Bondi. 

  • 82: Are Web Components Ready Now?

    This episode is a follow up on episode 59 'Are Web Components Ready Yet?'. Leon, Justin & Erik chat about where we are in Web Component development today and what's happened over the past 6 months.

  • 81: Building tools with and for Chrome DevTools

    An every day use tool, Chrome DevTools offers a significant amount of power for web developers to debug and make the web better. In this episode, Konrad Dzwinel sits down with Justin Ribeiro to discuss building tools for DevTools to expand your developmen...

  • 80: Getting started with CouchDB

    Offline, replication, and conflict detection is hard for the web. CouchDB makes life a easier. In this episode, we explore how CouchDB embraces the web, how to get started, and just what makes CouchDB tick. Resources and Links http://couchdb.apache.org...

  • 79: Basic web components and best practices

    There is more than one set of custom elements out there. In this episode, we speak with Jan Miksovsky about basic web components, a comprehensive set of high-quality web components for common user interface patterns. Resources and Links Component Kitche...

  • 78: The State of WebAssembly

    Sometimes you need the low level primitive building blocks that JavaScript can't handle. For that, the upcoming specification for WebAssembly or wasm is a new, portable, size- and load-time-efficient format suitable for compilation to the web. In this epi...

  • 77: Project Management and Git Workflows

    Workflows for source control and project management can seem daunting. In this episode, Danny Blue and Justin Ribeiro sit down with Tim Pettersen, Senior Developer & Git Evangelist at Atlassian and Ralph Whitbeck, developer evangelist for Atlassian ecosys...

  • 76: The Elm Programming Language

    The beauty of the web is being able to write in a language you love that'll compile down into JavaScript. In this episode, Justin Ribeiro sits down with web developer and Elm pro Richard Feldman (@rtfeldman) to talk about Elm, a functional programming lan...

  • 75: Best Practices for JavaScript

    There are many paradigms and approaches when it comes to writing JavaScript but how to choose?. In this episode, Danny Blue talks with JavaScript Jedi Masters Dr. Axel Rauschmayer (@rauschma) & Nicolas Bevacqua (@nzgb) about best practices and JavaScript...

  • 74: IoT with Firefox OS and Jan OS

    The web platform continues to expand into new regions, not only controlling the Internet of Things but also powering a new set of devices. In this episode, Justin Ribeiro talks with Jan Jongboom about Jan OS, an alternative operating system for mobile pho...

  • 73: Ionic Applications

    Summary Google Developer Expert (GDE) & Ionic Developer Relations Code Crafter MIke Hartington (@mhartington) joins the panel to discuss Ionic and the future of the project with AngularJS & Cordova. Ionic is “The beautiful open source front-end SDK for de...

  • 72: Teaching and Learning Angular

    Summary Kent C. Dodds (@kentcdodds) & Shai Reznik (@shai_reznik) join us for episode 72 about teaching and learning the popular Angular JavaScript Framework. These two veteran technologists provide great insights into how they teach code, what you need to...

  • 71: Vaadin Elements

    Summary   Danny Blue and Justin Ribeiro chat with Manolo Carrasco (@dodotis) and Moñino Jouni Koivuviita (@jouni) from Vaadin about their work with Web Components in the enterprise world. Vaadin has begun to create enterprise ready web components ‘ready f...

  • 70: Web Components at Microsoft

    Summary Daniel Buchner (@csuwildcat), former Mozillian & Program Manager at Microsoft takes us through the plans for Web Components at Microsoft. Daniel is the creator of the Web Components free open source library, X-Tag which Microsoft is now officially...

  • 69: Testing Front End Code

    Summary   Oren Rubin (@Shexman) goes through why it’s important to not only test the back-end code of our applications but also to test our Front End code, the integration points, and the full user experience. Oren also goes through reasons why you would...

  • 68: Ember 2 & The Ember Community

    Summary Ember community leaders Audrey Listochkin (@listochkin) & Robert Jackson (@rwjblue) talk with us about the long awaited Ember 2 release and the Ember community across the globe. The future of Ember is larger than this 2.x release and because of it...

  • 67: Keeping Fluent with Web Technology

    Summary How do you keep up with the vast amounts of web technology released daily? It can be a losing battle for some and a opportunity for others. One person in our community that comes to mind is Peter Cooper (@peterc) from Cooper Press. Join us as we l...

  • 66: Custom Elements & Skate.js

    Summary Atlassian leaders Trey Shugart (@treshugart) and Jonathon Creenaune (@jcreenaune) chat with us about how and why they created Skate.js. Skate is a lightweight Web Components wrapper created to help the needs of a large and diverse technology stack...

  • 65: Strand Web Components

    Summary MediaMath (@MediaMath)  has created an open source project built on top of Web Components & Polymer (@Polymer) called Strand. It was created for their internal web product Terminal One but is available and easy to get on Github. Daniel Lasky (@aer...

  • 64: Building Interface Animations

    Summary   Val Head (@vlh), animation expert, talks with us about interaction design for the web. She discusses how developers and teams can work together to design & build motion & static  interfaces as well as the some strategies and tactics for software...

  • 63: TypeScript & ES6 in Angular Applications

    Summary Dan Wahlin (@DanWahlin) , Angular JS GDE & Software Engineer, chats on TypeScript & ES6 in Angular applications. He tells us about how he leverages the power of these tools to improve his applications. He goes into a few of his debugging stories...

  • 62: JQuery 3

    Summary Timmy Willison (@TimmyWil) , lead developer at The JQuery Foundation & Senior Engineer at Open Table, joins us to discuss what is new with the most popular JavaScript library of all time- JQuery. We discuss what is new in version 3, struggles and...

  • 61: The Return of Bosonic

    Summary Raphaël Rougeron (@goldoraf), one of the Web Components pioneers, along with his team created the Bosonic Project some while back. It was a very different approach to working with Web Components than x-tag and Polymer and it involved a required bu...

  • 60: Offline First

    Summary The Offline First Heroes, Jan Lehnardt (@janl), John Kleinschmidt (@jkleinsc), Alex Russell (@slightlylate), and Jake Archibald (@jaffathecake) join forces to chat on why web developers should be designing and building with offline capabilities in...

  • 59: Web VR and AR

    Summary Brandon Jones (@tojiro) of Google & Joshua Carpenter (@joshcarpenter) of Mozilla talk with the Web Platform Podcast about the emerging Web VR (Web Virtual Reality) specification which encampasses both AR (Augmented Reality) & VR for the Web Platfo...

  • 58: Scalable Vector Graphics

    Summary   Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan) has been traveling the world talking about SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) over the past year. Since then, we’ve learned a lot more about the power of this declarative graphical language. Now that many projects have...

  • 57: PubNub on Web Crypto

    Summary Jay Oster (@KodeWerx), Core Engineer at PubNub talks with us about working with Web Crypto as well as the landscape of Cryptography today. What is on the horizon for client side security & Web Crypto? Resources PubNub -  http://www.pubnub.com/...

  • 56: Building Your Brand

    Summary Charles Max Wood (@cmaxw) guides us through his thoughts and processes for building out personal & business branding for developers. Learning from his experiences in podcasting and other content creation, Chuck talks with us about why branding is...

  • 55: Go on The Web

    Summary Andrew Gerrand (@enneff), Developer Advocate at Google & Go core contributor, talks about GoLang and how it is being used in Web Development today as well as the plans for the future of the Go as a platform for the web. Resources Go - https://go...

  • 54: Are Web Components Ready Yet?

    Summary An honest & candid talk about what we learned since the beginning of Web Components; a hard look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. Christian Heilmann (@codepo8), Wilson Page (@wilsonpage), & Rob Eisenberg (@eisenbergeffect) talk with us on devel...

  • 53: Diving into Angular 2

    Summary Pascal Precht (@PascalPrecht), Senior Software Engineer at Thoughtram & creator of ng-translate, chats with us about the Angular 2 and how developers can get ready today. Resources Angular 2 - http://angular.io TypeScript - http://www.typescr...

  • 52: Technology Radar

    Summary   First we review some of the technologies we’ve shown over our first year of podcasting and talk about what is relevant still and what we need to look towards in the future. Additionally we take a look at what is no longer something we need to us...

  • 51: Atomic Design

    Summary Brad Frost (@brad_frost), web designer astronaut & creator of Atomic Design,  talks with us about how we can better componentize our Front End Development with small composable parts using Atomic Design.   Resources Atomic Design - http://bradfr...

  • 50: The Evolution of CSS

    Summary In episode 50 we talk with CSS master Tab Atkins Jr. (@tabatkins) about the history of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) & how they have evolved into what we use today. We also cover preprocessors, lesser known specs, css as a programming language, and...

  • 49: An Interview with Eric Elliott

    Summary In episode 49 Danny Blue (@dee_bloo) has a one-on-one talk with Web Application Master & JavaScript Guru Eric Elliott (@_ericelliott).  Danny & Eric cover several exciting development topics including event based development, functional programmin...

  • 48: Web Accessibility in Polymer

    In episode 48 we chat with Chrome team member & Accessibility champion Alice Boxhall (@sundress) and Polymer team #a11y heroes, Chris Joel (@RoboDynamo) & Daniel Freedman (@danfreedman) about the Polymer 1.0 and what is new in web accessibility of the lib...

  • 47: X-Tag - The X Generation

    Summary Danny Blue (@dee_bloo), Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen), and Tyler McGinnis (@tylermcginnis33) talk to Daniel Buchner (@csuwildcat) about the X-Tag project and some if its interesting features, such as mixins. We discuss the Web Component spec as well as...

  • 46: Polymer 1.0

    Summary Polymer 1.0 is here! Lean mean and production ready. On episode 46 we talk to a Proverbial Packed Panel of Professional Polymer People. Polymer has grown a ton since its developer preview and has been streamlined for performance. A big show where...

  • 45: SSO, Open ID, & Anvil Connect

    Identity is the missing link that connects all your users, apps, services, and devices to each other and the rest of the world. Christian Smith (@anvilhacks) is founder of Anvil Research (@AnvilResearch) and the creator of Anvil Connect, an open source au...

  • 44: Organizing & Speaking at Developer Events

    It can be overwhelming and, in some cases, downright scary to speak at events for many developers. Aaron Frost, co-organizer of ng-conf & Google Developer Expert, (@js_dev) talks with us about his experiences, mistakes, and triumphs while speaking at deve...

  • 43: Modern JavaScript with ES6 & ES7

    Summary The world of JavaScript is a large one. AJ O’Neal (@coolAJ86), Podcaster & JavaScript Developer along with Netflix UI Architect & TC-39 Member, Jafar Husain (@jhusain) take us through opinions & facts about the state of the ubiquitous JavaScript l...

  • 42: Human Hacking & Social Engineering

    What is Social Engineering (SE) and why should developers care? It is the ability to manipulate. It is the power to influence, elicit, and misdirect. It is a means hackers can use, for better or worse, to breach or protect companies, start or stop cyber w...

  • 41: Shaping the future of the Web

    Jen Simmons (@JenSimmons), full stack designer & host of The Web Ahead Podcast (@TheWebAhead), takes us through what is means to contribute to and shape the ever changing landscape of the web. Jen produces an immense amount of free content from speaking e...

  • 40: The io.js Roadmap

    Dan Shaw, Co-founder and President of NodeSource, and Mikeal Rogers, Creator & Curator of NodeConf & JSFest, join us to talk about io.js and node.js. It’s been awhile since the the forking of the Node project last Thanksgiving. Now, version 2.0 of io.js i...

  • 39: Famo.us Mobile Performance & Mixed Mode

    Steve Newcomb, CEO at Famo.us, joins us for a second time with software engineer Michael O’Brien to talk about the changes in the framework. Moving toward what Famo.us calls “MIxed Mode”, which will debut in the upcoming framework 0.4 release, will allow...

  • 38: Aurelia.io

    Rob Eisenberg (@EisenbergEffect) recently released a framework that focuses on standardization & swappable modules. Rob is no stranger to framework building, having created the popular JavaScript framework Durandal.js and more recently having helped devel...

  • 37: The Ghost Platform

    John O’Nolan (@johnonolan), founder of Ghost, and Hannah Wolfe (@ErisDS), Ghost CTO talk about blogging and how the Ghost Project can make a difference in the blogging community. John gives a great overview of blogging and how Wordpress, the blogging gian...

  • 36: Understanding PhoneGap

    Brian Leroux (@brianleroux), Adobe Phonegap Team Member & open source software developer, spends lots of time on the Apache Cordova and Adobe PhoneGap projects. Hailing from Canada, he loves his hockey and beer- maybe even more than coding. He has spoken...

  • 35: React & Reactive Elements

    React’s Virtual DOM (Document Object Model) & the browser DOM  are very different in their approach. Virtual DOM prefers to keep it’s logic and changes in JavaScript and eventually optimizes output to the browser DOM at the most critical moment that provi...

  • 34: Tenon.io & Web Accessibility

    Accessibility for web applications typically gets added at the end of development cycles with different tools and low priority. This ruins the experience for many users and generally causes a huge impact on the quality of code. Because many companies are...

  • 33: React Week

    React Week (reactweek.com)  is the premiere week long workshop focused solely on learning how to build applications in React.js taught by Ryan Florence. React is just the "V in MVC" so attendees will learn all about how to build full applications around R...

  • 32: Microsoft Spartan & Internet Explorer

    The Internet Explorer team at MIcrosoft are making waves in the developer community. The Internet Explorer browser (AKA IE or Internet Exploder) has a long and jaded history. Newer developers may not recall, but fifteen years ago Internet Explorer was arg...

  • 31: Building with React.js

    What is Facebook’s React.js project? When it was announced at JSConf US 2013 it met mixed reviews. One question that might enter your mind is...as developer today in 2015, do I really need to know another framework? The short answer is “yes”. In episode 3...

  • 30: Community Contributions

    We, as developers, consume so much information. We read blogs, use our social media to get the latest happenings, follow startup & corporate companies in the news, and we pull in so many libraries and frameworks that power our applications and reduce the...

  • 29: Reactive Extensions

    The Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a library for building async and event-based programs using observable sequences & query operators. Developers can use Rx to represent asynchronous data streams with Observables and query those data streams using LINQ opera...

  • 28: Securing our Web Applications

    Gary McGraw (@cigitalgem), CTO of the security giant Cigital, chats with us about how web developers, and software engineers in general, can best secure applications we are building today. We dive into best practices, team collaboration techniques, where...

  • 27: Building Codepen

    Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier), creator of CSS-Tricks & Codepen speaks with The Web Platform Podcast of buiding the Real Time Code Editor based on CodeMirror, Codepen.io. We go into what designers, educators,and developers are doing with this service and how...

  • 26 : Ruby on Rails Security & OWASP RailsGoat

    While working to secure Rails applications in a truly Agile development environment, it became clear to Ken Johnson (@cktricky), CTO of nVisium Security, and Mike McCabe (@mccabe615) that the Rails community needed attention to security in the form of fre...

  • 25: LIVE - Static Showdown 2015

    Our guests Michael Bleigh, Divshot CEO, and Kevin Chau, Director of Business Development at Divshot, talk about the importance of Static Applications, Hosting Static Apps, & Hackathons. Static Showdown is a worldwide 48 hour hackathon featuringstatic web...

  • 24: ServiceWorkers and High Performance Offline Apps

    Offline access for applications is becoming more and more necessary for web development today due to increasing client usability demands. The HTML AppCache are a partial solution but is very sticky, often provides stale data and is not dynamic or adaptabl...

  • 23: Web Animation & Interaction Design

    Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors) adventures around the world to speak at conferences about animation, interaction, and storytelling. Based in Portland, Oregon, she works at her own company Tin Magpie, training folk to use web animation and publishing inter...

  • 22: LIVE - An Open Source Discussion Panel

    A discussion on Open Source technologies with open source contributors & interested developers. We tackle topics such as how to get started contributing, resources that developers might need, starting a project of your own, understanding licenses, monetiz...

  • 21 : The X-Tag Project

    Daniel Buchner (@csuwildcat), Product Manager at Target & former Mozillian, talks with The Web Platform Podcast on x-tag, the Custom Elements library competitor to Polymer that he created alongside former Mozillian & Kraken Developer, Arron Schaar (@penny...

  • 20: Mozilla Brick, ‘UIKit’ for The Web

    Matt Claypotch (@potch), Mozilla Apps Engineer & Lead on Mozilla Brick Project and Soledad Penades(@supersole), GIF Hacktivist & Mozilla Apps Engineer, join us for Episode 20, “Mozilla Brick, ‘UIKit’ for The Web”, where we talk about building UI focused W...

  • 19: Node.js Application Security

    Chetan Karande (@karande_c), talks about Node.js App security and ways developers can prevent attacks. He goes into detail about working with Express.js in particular, NodeGoat, & his work with OWASP. Chetan is a team lead and senior software engineer at...

  • 18: ORTC & WebRTC Deep Dive with Tsahi Levent-Levi

    We covered the basics of WebRTC (Web Real Time Communication) & Real Time Application Development in episode 7 of the podcast with Agility Feat and now, with the recent news that Microsoft has decided to start implementing ORTC (Object Real Time Communica...

  • 17: The Famo.us vision of "Mobile First"

    Defender of Magic, wizardry and the web, and CEO of Famo.us, Steve Newcomb (@stevenewcomb), walks us through the current state of Famo.us. Steve talks about how they are innovating the web and what we can expect in the future of “mobile first” web develop...

  • 16: Measures of Success in Pair Programming

    Pair Programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together on the same development work at the same time. Many variants exist for this practice, each having there own merits and drawbacks.   From a business perspect...

  • 15: Functional Programming with Elm, ClojureScript, Om, and React

    Episode 15 deep dives into the programming experiences of Adam Solove (@asolove), Head of Engineering at Pagemodo. Adam has spent the last ten years building web interfaces various technologies such as CGI, Flash, DHTML, RJS, jQuery, and many MVC JavaScri...

  • 14: Web Components Interop and Polymer

    Today, Web Components have emerged from cutting edge technologies to technologies we can implement in our small scale production. It won’t be long before we are building large scale applications with Custom Elements, HTML Imports, Template Tags, and the i...

  • 13: MeshBlu, NPM, and The Internet of Everywhere

    Connectivity and ubiquity will play a huge role in how web development for connected devices evolves. The rise of makers & builders in the development community is sparking innovation as well as curiosity in the business world. From connected cars & livin...

  • 12: Flux Application Architecture & React

    “Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you c...

  • 11: The Bosonic Project

    Raphael Rougeron joins us from Toulouse, France to talk about The Bosonic Project.  Raphael and his team of developers mostly focus their development efforts working in the Financial Industry, building out secure and robust applications as well as intrica...

  • 10: Mathematics & Dynamic CSS Visualizations

    In the future, CSS visualizations will dramatically change. How they will change is debatable but they will enable developers to do a lot more than they may think. We may see custom properties like variables to further improve DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)...

  • 9: Web Accessibility for JavaScript Components and Custom Elements

    In Episode 9, ‘Web Accessibility for JavaScript Components and Custom Elements’. Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner) from The Paciello Group and Marcy Sutton (@marcysutton) from Substantial discuss the lack of focus in product development today in building ac...

  • 8: Exploring Dart & Polymer

    Dart was originally a Google language revealed in 2011 and is now an ECMA Standard known as TC52. When Dart first came into being it was annoounced it's purpose was to "ultimately to replace JavaScript as the 'lingua franca' of web development on the open...

  • 7: Web RTC and Designing Realtime Experiences

    In episode 7 of the web platform podcast, ‘’Web RTC and Designing Realtime Experiences”,  we talk with Agility Feat (http://agilityfeat.com/), a design and development firm in the US, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Agility Feat has been not only bui...

  • 6: What Agile Brings to Products & Teams

    Agile is a buzzword that, for better or worse, has caused emotional reactions that are both negative and positive. It is a highly overused and misunderstood term in our industry but it has shaped the way web software has been built for years. Agile is a f...

  • 5: The Web Components Community

    Web Components are a set of emerging and rapidly changing technologies alter the way many developers are starting to build web applications. Zeno Rocha (@zenorocha), a dominant force in the front end development community talks with hosts Erik Isaksen (@e...

  • 4: Static Application Hosting & All Things Firebase

    “The Rise of BAAS : Static Application Hosting & All Things Firebase”,  episode 4, is the second of our exploration into Backend As A Service (BAAS) and how it’s changing how we build applications today. Static Application development is on the rise & the...

  • 3: GoAngular & The GoInstant Platform

    “The Rise of BAAS : GoAngular & The GoInstant (@GoInstant) Platform”,  episode 3, is the first of our exploration into Backend As A Service (BAAS) and how it’s changing how we build applications today. Matt Creager (@Matt_Creager), lead developer on the G...

  • 2: Prototyping with Purpose

    Episode #2 features Engineers Adi Chikara (@adi_ads) & Pam Selle (@pamasaur) on Prototyping strategies and goals. Building HTML, CSS, JavaScript prototypes is becoming more and more prevalent in our work. The fast development time and information yielded...

  • 1: RubyNation & Ruby's Cultural Impact

    This is Episode #1 featuring live interviews from RubyNation 2014,  a regional Ruby Conference in Silver Springs, MD. It showcases the importance of building meaningful digital experiences,  development culture & community, & the value sharing knowledge.