Learn With Jason
8 seasons
416 episodes
Live pair programming. Learn something new in 90 minutes with tech industry experts.
34 episodes
Release year: 2024
S7.E1
What's new in Redux Toolkit 2.0?
There's a right way to write Redux in 2024. Core maintainer Mark Erikson will teach us what the recommended modern approach is, what's new in RTK 2.0, & the long road toward shipping 5 major OSS libraries simultaneously.
S7.E2
Defer and other reasons to try Angular again
There’s a whole lot happening in Angular lately. Jessica Janiuk and the rest of the core team have been working hard to add new capabilities & improved APIs. Learn what’s new & why it’s worth a look.
S7.E3
Qwik + Astro perf on perf on perf
Qwik introduced resumability in JavaScript apps. Astro introduced a “just in time” approach to building complex frontends. Together, are they unstoppable? Steve Sewell will teach us.
S7.E4
Learn With Jason Live, LIVE! The CSS-stravaganza!
Adam Argyle likes CSS. In this episode, he’s live in studio teaching us about everything from @property to @layer to scroll-snap and a whole lot more.
S7.E5
Build Web APIs Using Python and FastAPI
Python works for the web. Learn how FastAPI allows developers to build web APIs quickly. Jay Miller teaches us how.
S7.E6
Make React faster with Million
Can you get better performance than React offers without switching frameworks? Million says you can, and Chance Strickland will show us how it works.
S7.E7
What is GenAI and can we do it with JavaScript?
If you're like me and you don't know what "GenAI" means, Adam Cowley will teach us how to use langchain.js and build our own custom apps.
S7.E8
Run Go, Rust, and more in JavaScript using WASM + Extism
We can build cross-language applications that can use Go, Rust, Node, PHP, .Net, Ruby, and many other languages through the power of WebAssembly. Steve Manuel will teach us how we can do it quickly using Extism.
S7.E9
React Suspense in GraphQL with Apollo Client
Learn how to combine the latest in GraphQL and React Suspense to build apps that feel great to build AND to use. Lenz Weber-Tronic will teach us how it works.
S7.E10
Astro’s biggest release yet
Astro’s got big news, and Fred K. Schott is teaching us what it means for web dev using Astro.
S7.E11
Fixing async/await in JavaScript and TypeScript
If you've ever hit issues with async/await, structured concurrency might have some solutions for you. Charles Lowell will teach us what the heck it is and how it can improve or software architecture.
S7.E12
Val Town wants to make serverless JavaScript easier
HTTP handlers, cron jobs, email handlers — all the little things we need to set up as web apps get more complex. Steve Krouse will teach us how Val Town can help.
S7.E13
Dev Mode and Custom Plugins in Figma
How can web developers and designers work together in Figma? Live from the Figma offices in San Francisco, Jake Albaugh will teach us how Dev Mode improves the design handoff, and how the Figma plugins API enables more powerful customization.
S7.E14
Adding state to serverless applications
Serverless has always come with a trade-off: apps that use it are stateless by design. But Sunil Pai has a way to make serverless stateful, and he's going to show us how it works.
S7.E15
Auth and RBAC in multi-tenant React apps
One of the first challenges many web apps face is how to manage user authentication. Julianna Lamb will show us how to use Stytch and its pre-built UI components to add auth to a React + Express app quickly.
S7.E16
Node.js and its many, many new features
When was the last time you looked at what Node.js is capable of? If you're like me, it's been a while — and a LOT has changed. TSC member Matteo Collina will show us what's new and how we can modernize our projects.
S7.E17
Run Next.js without Vercel
What does it take to support Next.js on a platform other than Vercel? Rob Stanford will share how he and his team reverse engineered Next.js to add support for its complex feature set on Netlify.
S7.E18
AnalogJS is the full-stack meta-framework for Angular
There’s a whole lot of interesting innovation happening in AnalogJS. Creator Brandon Roberts will teach us why it’s exciting, whether you’re an Angular dev or not.
S7.E19
Build a design system with CSS
Mike will teach Jason how to build a design system using CSS. The system will make it easy to build pixel-perfect pages without needing to write CSS every time a new feature is added.
S7.E20
Build your own metaframework with Vinxi
Vite and Nitro are the building blocks of many metaframeworks today. Dev Agrawal will teach us how Vinxi lets us use Vite + Nitro to build our own JavaScript metaframework.
S7.E21
Put videos behind auth
How do you build a web app that only shows video content to logged-in users? Darius Cepulis will show us how to set it up with Mux.
S7.E22
Build a web version of a board game
How do you build a board game using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript? Eli Goodman joins to teach us how we can build our own using web tech.
S7.E23
Let’s Learn Ember.js
When I asked Robbie Wagner what Ember.js is, he called it “the Rails of JavaScript”. Learn what it is and how we can use it in our web projects.
S7.E24
3D on the web with React
3D assets are showing up on more websites these days. Sara Vieira has experience in both React and 3D modeling, and she’ll teach us how to combine them in our apps.
S7.E25
Let’s Learn SolidStart
Pushing boundaries is nothing new to the Solid.js team. With SolidStart, they’re aiming to bring fine-grained reactivity to fullstack apps. Ryan Carniato teaches us how it works.
S7.E26
Let’s Learn Waku for React
Waku’s goal is to “make React development fun again”. Learn how this minimal framework lets us build with React Server Components and more with creator Daishi Kato.
S7.E27
Use Vitest with Browser Mode
With Vitest’s browser mode, you can run your tests in the browser natively. Learn how from maintainer Vladimir Sheremet.
S7.E28
First look at Astro 5 beta
One of the most promising web frameworks is looking even more exciting with the features landing in v5. Ben Holmes, will give us a guided tour of the content layer, actions, typed env vars + more in the Astro 5 beta.
S7.E29
AI should do chores, not the fun stuff
What’s the *right* use for AI? Laurie Voss thinks it’s great at doing boring chores, and in this episode we learn what that means and how we can put the robots to work so we have more time for the fun stuff.
S7.E30
Ship native apps with web tech using Tauri
Access native APIs using a JavaScript runtime to ship fully functional native apps with Tauri without needing to write Rust. Atila Fassina teaches us.
S7.E31
Create consistent designs in React using Tailwind CSS
Learn how to create a “mini design system” for your projects of all sizes using Tailwind CSS. Bree Hall teaches us.
S7.E32
Debugging complicated apps
When you’ve got a frontend, a backend, and more in between, how do you debug issues? Lazar Nikolov teaches us how to use tracing.
S7.E33
DevTools showcase: Warp, Graphite, and Reflex
How do you make sure your dev environment is helping you get work done? Elvis Kahoro will give us a tour of a few of his favorite dev tools.
S7.E34
Using tests for cleaner code with constant refactoring
Tests can help us clear the clutter out of our thinking — and our code — if we look at them a little differently. Cory Speisman teaches us how TDD can be a thinking tool.