React talk with ecosystem memory.
React Podcast follows people in modern React work, from educators to open-source builders. Its conversations connect technical choices with habits, teams, funding, events, and career tradeoffs behind them.
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React Podcast is a developer interview show anchored in the React ecosystem, but its reach is broader than component patterns alone. The episodes in this run treat React as a meeting point for tooling, education, product work, accessibility, events, open source, and career development. The technical level can get specific. Tim Neutkens talks through Next.js 10, image handling, layout shift, and the way Web Vitals affect real sites. Eli White discusses React Native principles, native experience, declarative UI, platform work, and collaboration with Microsoft. Henry Zhu brings Babel into focus as infrastructure that needs contributors, funding, and uncomfortable conversations about support. Those episodes give the show its engineering spine. Then the conversations turn human. Cassidy Williams reflects on 2020 plans, team trust, streaming, and doing useful work as a whole person rather than a narrow skill set. TJ VanToll talks about moving DevReach online, live coding pressure, speaker nerves, and the strange advantages of showing mistakes in public. Tyler Mcginnis revisits early React education, UI.dev, JavaScript teaching, marketing, growth, and cultural patterns around developer instructors. Shawn Swyx Wang appears through a career-focused episode around The Coding Career Handbook and lessons learned the hard way. Marcy Sutton appears in an episode framed around accessibility tactics and fighting for work that matters. Across the set, the show keeps returning to a practical question: what helps developers build better software and sustain better careers? It is conversational, lightly informal, and rooted in the working details of the web industry. Sponsor reads and network credits are part of the format, but the editorial center is the guest conversation. React specialists will find framework context. JavaScript developers will find ecosystem history and tooling perspective. Engineering leads and educators will find useful signals about trust, teaching, events, and community work. The strongest moments come when technical decisions are tied to the people who carry them.
Made for: For React and JavaScript developers who want technical context, ecosystem history, and candid career perspective from people doing the work. It also suits educators, conference speakers, and team leads tracking how developer culture changes.
What sets it apart: The show connects framework news to the people and practices behind it: maintainers raising support, educators building courses, speakers adapting to online events, and teams learning to trust different kinds of work.
Conversations about React with your favorite developers.
Chantastic gets the people behind your tabs talking, from Next.js image sizing to Babel fundraising.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Cassidy Williams looks back on 2020 through useful work, changing plans, and a team culture built on trust.
React Podcast treats Cassidy Williams's 2020 as a grounded look at what happens when a developer has to adjust after big plans run into a strange year. She talks through the habits that helped her keep moving, the effects on her job, and the Maker 100 Kickstarter project.
A grounded look at online technical events, live detours, and the pressure speakers take on.
React Podcast looks at online events through TJ Van Tolle's experience moving DevReach online during COVID, with a focus on what changes when a talk has to make room for live turns.
A practical look at how Next.js 10 links image sizing, layout shift, and Core Web Vitals.
Next.js 10 comes through as a performance-minded release with a practical center. Tim Newtkins walks through framework features announced at Next.js Conf, including work shaped by Google and the React core team, and keeps the focus on what those changes mean for people building…
A grounded look at React's early years, technical teaching, and the business work behind JavaScript education.
React Podcast's conversation with Tyler McGinnis uses React's early years as a way into the broader modern JavaScript ecosystem. Tyler traces the move from react.jsprogram.com into courses on React, modern JavaScript, advanced JavaScript, and Redux, then shows how UI.dev tries…
React Podcast turns Babel's funding problem into a thoughtful conversation about time, responsibility, and what engineers choose to own.
React Podcast frames Babel maintenance as less a tooling story than a human one: how important open source work stays alive, and how an engineer decides where their time can matter most.
Power Platform news with practical static.
["Cassidy Williams says her TikTok videos started as a video-editor experiment and became part of her public identity after one post drew far more attention than she expected.", "She says her 2020 plan for heavy conference travel, a final big speaking push, and a later step back from the circuit collapsed when Spain was canceled and React Training laid her off during the pandemic.", "Cassidy explains that technical interviews went better when she could show small projects and talk through her thought process before writing code, not when she relied on her Twitter or speaking reach.", "The conversation also covers Netlify's trust-heavy team culture, open mob-programming sessions on Jamstack Explorers, and the manufacturing problems behind her Go on the Go Kickstarter."]
React Podcast episode 122 has Chantastic talking with TJ VanToll about moving DevReach online when COVID stopped the in-person conference.
Next.js Conf drew 70,000 signups and about 35,000 attendees, and Tim uses that scale to frame Next.js 10.
React Podcast episode 120 with Tyler McGinnis revisits the first years of React, ui.dev, and the modern JavaScript ecosystem.
Henry Zhu says he left Adobe and has been working on Babel full time for more than two years, which shifted his job from writing code to doing maintenance and community work.
Jenn Creighton argues that a React component built as a "Swiss Army knife" can make future changes harder as teammates add configuration props.
Tom Preston-Werner traces RedwoodJS to Chatterbug, where a Rails app grew from jQuery pages into a React client using GraphQL.
React Podcast host Chantastic asks Marcy Sutton how work with blind QA colleague Steve Sawson at Target drew her into web accessibility.
Eli White discusses the five core principles guiding React Native development and shares insights about Facebook's organization and collaborations with Microsoft.
Interview with Sean Swicks Wang about his book on coding career strategies, with sponsorship from AWS Amplify.
A conversation about managing open source at scale, with sponsorship messages from AWS Amplify and Infinite Red.