Creating a background gradient from an image
Ryan talks to Sam about reproducing iOS's new image background treatment for his Open Graph Preview tool, opengraph.ing. They talk about dif...
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The EmberMap Podcast
A weekly podcast where Sam, Ryan and guests chat about development and design in the world of Ember.js. Hosted by Sam Selikoff and Ryan Toronto of EmberMap.
Episodes
20 of 201 episodesExploring useActionState
Sam and Ryan talk about React 19's useActionState hook. They discuss how adding async functions to a plain React app introduces lots of in-b...
Cloudflare Tunnel | React Compiler | refs during render
Sam and Ryan talk about using Cloudflare Tunnel for local development, the new React Compiler beta release, and why reading or writing refs...
useAnimatedText | Events vs. State Changes | Catalyst
Sam and Ryan talk about building a useAnimatedText hook that can animate streaming text. They also discuss how React code that uses state ch...
Can you self-host Next.js?
Sam and Ryan talk about how frameworks and infrastructure evolve with each other, using Next.js as a representative example. They discuss ho...
Tom Occhino on the future of React
Tom Occhino, Chief Product Officer at Vercel and former Engineering Director at Facebook, joins Sam to talk about the pivotal moments in Rea...
Render props
Sam and Ryan talk about render props in React. They discuss where they came from, how Hooks superseded them for sharing stateful logic, how...
Controlled and uncontrolled components
Sam and Ryan discuss controlled and uncontrolled components in React. They talk about how uncontrolled components can be thought of as compo...
Unstyled React components
Sam and Ryan talk about the pattern of building unstyled components with React. They discuss why unstyled components were created, how they...
What is a framework?
Sam and Ryan talk about what sorts of capabilities a tool should have to be considered a web framework. They discuss how frameworks tackle t...
Crossover: Declaring War Against the Frontend
Sam joins Lane Wagner in a crossover episode with the Backend Banter podcast. They talk about abstractions in frontend and backend framework...
Blog Post Club: Queueing - An interactive study of queueing strategies
Sam and Ryan read and discuss a fantastic interactive blog post about queueing in HTTP written by Sam Rose. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 6:57 -...
SPAs in React 19
Sam and Ryan discuss the new features in React 19 that will specifically benefit developers building single-page applications. They talk abo...
High floor, high ceiling
Sam tells Ryan about a recent talk he gave at BigSkyDevCon. They chat about how backend frameworks are raising the ceiling of what UIs they’...
Technical Cost vs. Product Benefit
Sam and Ryan talk about the difference between the costs of building a feature and the benefits that feature brings to our end users. They d...
View Transitions in React
Ryan tells Sam about his experiments with using the new View Transitions API in a React photo gallery app. He talks about how he likes the f...
CodeMirror | Radix Themes
Sam tells Ryan about his experience setting up an in-browser code editor with CodeMirror that he plans on using for blog posts and code reci...
Throw is about control flow – not error handling
Sam and Ryan talk about why it’s better to think of throw as a general-purpose JavaScript language feature rather than something that should...
The Philosophy of Next.js
Sam and Ryan discuss the core values of the Next.js framework, and how those values motivate several of the framework’s design decisions. Th...
Beyond Data Fetching with RSCs
Sam talks to Ryan about refactoring an MDX blog post to a React Server Component. They discuss how RSC’s ability to render server-side conte...