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Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. Current panelists: Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball (KBall), Nick Nisi, Chris Hiller, Amal Hussein & Amy Dutton. Past panelists: Suz Hinton, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Amelia Wattenberger, Divya Sasidharan, Alex Sexton, Rachel White, Emma Bostian, Ali Spittel, Mikeal Rogers & Jessica Sachs. We talk about the web platform (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, etc), front-end frameworks (ReactJS, SolidJS, Svelte, VueJS, AngularJS, etc), JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), web animation, SVG, TailwindCSS, robotics, IoT, and much more. If JavaScript and/or the web touch your life, this show’s for you. Some people search for JSParty an...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
JS Party connects JavaScript's changing tools and frameworks to the practical decisions developers make while building and maintaining software.
JS Party turns web development into a lively technical conversation, with Nick Nisi, K-Ball, rotating panelists, and guests working through the choices behind tools and frameworks.
An ESLint rule gets a defense and an escape hatch; your last code review might relate.
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A JS Party sendoff that treats AI coding tools as a workflow problem, not a prophecy.
One Last Party feels like a proper sendoff for JS Party, and it lands as a sober look at how web developers are actually using AI tools. It opens with Jam.dev's bug-capture pitch, then moves into Cursor, Avanti, and the increasingly common habit of talking through code with a…
A grounded mix of auth, conference culture, and the human side of web work.
The episode spends most of its time on the practical edges of modern web work, with AuthKit framed through auth, provisioning, role-based access control, and permissions for apps beyond Next.js.
A grounded look at how small Node shortcuts can become architecture problems as applications grow.
JS Party follows a familiar Node path: a sensible shortcut that keeps working until enough changes pile up around it. The episode uses a single-file server, a global database variable, and steady incremental additions to show how an application can outgrow the shape that once…
Understanding cloud systems and giving AI tools enough context makes development feel less magical.
JS Party treats cloud systems as something to understand, not as magic, and Kurt Mackey argues that developers build better features when they know how the pieces fit together.
A loose JS Party panel turns developer admiration into a grounded case for teaching in public.
JS Party turns a loose panel segment with Amy into a warm argument for generosity in public. The 20-question run keeps coming back to what makes a developer worth admiring, and her answer lands on behavior: giving back, teaching from experience, and helping other people move…
An eight-year-old web app argues for targeted infrastructure work instead of a full Jamstack rewrite.
The host's toolbox frames a familiar maintenance problem: a web app can age past the assumptions of its original stack without becoming a bad app.
A practical developer conversation about hosting friction, JavaScript tooling risk, and when enterprise identity starts to matter.
JS Party turns a plain question about public clouds into a practical look at developer productivity. Kurt Mackey of Fly compares putting a family sandwich-recipe app on AWS with using a dedicated Hetzner server, keeping the focus on a familiar frustration: hosting can become the…
A sandwich app and a billion-dollar company frame the real tradeoffs behind hosting and identity choices.
Hosting a tiny web app can get strange quickly, and Kurt Mackey uses a Braunschweiger sandwich recipe app to make the point. The Fly.io co-founder and CEO sets AWS beside a dedicated Hetzner server, framing the choice less as cloud ideology than as a test of developer…
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Stack Overflow's Ryan Donovan interviews founders and engineers on AI agents, protocols, and dev tools.
Michael Kennedy interviews Python maintainers on packaging, security, web tools, and AI.
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken run down the week's Python tooling, typing, and packaging news.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
Tom Okino, a founding React team member at Facebook and now chief product officer at Vercel, talks with K-Ball and Nick at React Summit about React’s origins and where the framework is going next.
Tom Okino, chief product officer at Vercel and former Facebook engineering leader, explains why Next.js is built around React and how Vercel thinks about infrastructure as part of the framework.
Philip Burkhardt, the author of stdlib.io and a data scientist with a PhD in statistics and data science, explains why JavaScript still benefits from a serious standard library.
Brian LaRue explains why Enhance exists: modern frameworks like React and Svelte add module and component systems that the browser already has, while Web Components and ES modules are now built in.
Zach Leatherman says Eleventy is going fully independent in 2024, after time at Netlify and CloudCannon and with a fundraising push built around Open Collective and GitHub Sponsors.
The final episode of JS Party, a long-running JavaScript and web development podcast from the Changelog network.
JS Party opens with its familiar loose, friendly energy.
A deprecated module is still downloaded 70 million times per week—five years later.
JS Party opens with party-time banter and heads straight into cloud talk.
JS Party hosts Jared and KBall welcome Amy Dutton, a Redwood core contributor, as a new regular panelist through a 10-question interview format covering her technology preferences and background.
Host K-Ball turns the camera on Changelog co-founder and longtime JS Party contributor Jerod Santo, diving into the tools, hardware, and workflows behind his work as developer, business owner, and podcaster.
JS Party host Jared interviews Tomek Sulkowski, founding engineer at StackBlitz, about Tutorial Kit, an open source project for building interactive in-browser coding tutorials.
JS Party opens with sponsor banter, then gets into a conversation about Deno and the package-publishing mess around JavaScript.
JS Party spends this one riffing on conference life, stage nerves, and the small side projects people lean on to stay calm before going on stage.
JS Party opens with its familiar loose, friendly banter before settling into a conversation about intent-driven UX.
JS Party hosts Nick Nisi and Chris Hiller discuss a curated list of TypeScript features that developers should avoid in production code, arguing that TypeScript's inclusion of certain language features from its pre-strict-mode era, or features borrowed from other languages, creates maintainability traps that outweigh any short-term convenience.
The hosts and guest Simon Wickmans discuss the Polyfill.io attack, where a domain hijack led to malicious scripts affecting hundreds of thousands of websites.
Host Jerod Santo interviews Eric Bailey, an inclusive design advocate and GitHub worker, about web accessibility — specifically the art of writing good alt text for images.
The hosts discuss recent developments in the JavaScript ecosystem, including Node.js experimental features like stripping TypeScript types and adding built-in SQLite, ECMAScript 2024 updates, and insights from the React 2023 survey, all with a humorous and educational tone.
JS Party host Nick Nisi talks with ESLint committer and TypeScript ESLint core maintainer Josh Goldberg, and Boneskull, about ESLint's new flat config format that shipped as the default in ESLint v9.
JS Party host K-Ball interviews Tejas Kumar, developer relations engineer for generative AI at Datastax, about what LLM agents are, when they are the right tool to use, and how to build them in JavaScript.
JS Party brings in three Ember JS core team members for a wide-open chat about Ember’s place in JavaScript.
This episode of JS Party features Simon Grimm discussing React Native development with a focus on the Expo framework.
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The JS Party panel debates whether web development should require a build step, with teams arguing for and against based on performance, developer experience, and innovation.
Jerod and KBall discuss the latest in web development, including the State of HTML survey results, Node.js 22 release, React 19 beta features, and the rise of AI coding tools.
Brian Breiholz discusses his journey as a 3D web game developer, including his experiences in React Game Jams and building a game engine with React 3Fiber.
Corey LaViska created Shoelace, a web components library designed as a framework-agnostic alternative to Bootstrap, which has evolved into Web Awesome under the Font Awesome brand.