The EmberMap Podcast
1) 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 different approaches for generating gradients from images, incl...Show More
2) Exploring 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-between states that developers must grapple with, and how use...Show More
3) 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 during render violates the rules of React.
4) 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 changes to approximate events can be simplified, and the benef...Show More
5) Self-hosting Next.js, and the blurry line between frameworks and infrastructure
Sam and Ryan talk about how frameworks and infrastructure evolve with each other, using Next.js as a representative example. They discuss how hosting providers like Heroku have always imposed certain ...Show More
Self-hosting Next.js, and the blurry line between frameworks and infrastructure
58:03 | Oct 10th, 2024
6) 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 React's history. He talks about how React popularized the ideas...Show More
7) 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 They discuss where they came from, how Hooks superseded them for sharing stateful logic, how data attributes compare to them for customizing styling, and...Show More
8) 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 components that manage their own internal state, why you should m...Show More
9) 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 improve upon composition patterns from UI libraries like Boo...Show More
10) 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 the complexity of getting different systems to communicate wi...Show More