frontend.blog Zach Silveira

In this podcast we talk with Spencer Jones, creator of chime.so. We discuss his post on React Query and also talk a bit about Chime and how it uses the library.


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Blog post

This week, we discuss building component libraries with Tailwind, React, and TSDX. 

Check out the video version of the podcast to see the blog post sections as we discuss!

Video Podcast



Chapters:

0:42 - TSDX 

1:24 - Tailwind

2:46 - HeadlessUI

6:04 - What TSDX Includes

7:09 - Tailwind + PostCSS Setup

9:59 - Building in Storybook

12:11 - Less dependencies, the better!

16:39 - Tips for pickup up Tailwind

18:22 - HeadlessUI + Tailwind

20:12 - Building Tailwind for Production

21:41 - Publishing to NPM

24:02 - The Example Playground

26:12 - TypeScript or JavaScript!

28:16 - Component Building Process

30:05 - Conclusion


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This week we have a special podcast only episode. 

Rob Shaw from mycnote.com and Tristan Siegel from thedipp.com join to discuss adding prisma into their applications.

If you've used other database libraries in the past, the questions asked in this podcast will give you a good idea of how Prisma works.



00:00 Intro

00:48 Rob on using Knex + Bookshelf currently

02:52 Tristan aded Prisma to an existing Knex app

03:57 Prisma solves the N+1 Problem

The talk Tristan mentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oMfBGEdwsc&vl=en

05:16 Dataloading at Bustle with Redis

07:15 Prisma's Schema is a Superior Solution

08:58 How do migrations work with Prisma?

12:41 Prisma supports transactions!

14:17 Auditing with Middleware?

15:29 Automatically set updatedAt?

17:53 Typescript and Prisma

22:47 What about edge cases with the ORM?

26:20 Tristan's Prisma gotchas

30:08 Prisma and JSON fields
















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Blog post for this episode: https://frontend.blog/being-the-first-only-designer-in-an-organization

Relevant links:

Lightning Decision Jam - https://ajsmart.com/ldj

Mural - https://www.mural.co/



Chapters:

1:30 - Why I wrote this article

3:05 - First Presentation

3:50 - Who should you present to?

4:30 - Generating Excitement with Developers

5:30 - Educate about your role

6:05 - Run workshops!

9:11 - What is a lightning decision workshop?

11:40 - Running Workshops Remotely

13:02 - Running Workshops alone

14:56 - What to get out of a workshop

15:43 - Real world Workshop Example

17:30 - Starting a Book Club

20:17 - You need support

26:57 - Getting notice outside your team

27:57 - How to prioritize work

32:39 - Tailwind?






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The video version of this podcast is available on youtube.

In this episode we go over building a server side rendering framework and compare it to NextJS.

This episode should be listened to while reading the accompanying blog post.


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What is this?frontend.blog is a weekly newsletter and podcast. Every Monday a new post drops. On Wednesday, a podcast will be released covering the post in depth.
What makes us differentOur podcast will have developers and designers discuss and attempt our blog posts, complete with video content.
We think this is the best way to learn and grow your skills.
Whether your learning style is through reading, listening to audio, or following along with video, we'll have you covered.
Who's involved?Naman Goel - Front-End Engineer putting evermore CSS in JS in React. Works on Facebook’s soon* to be open-source stylex and Flow apologist.
Jed Watson - known for creating react-select, classnames, and most recently KeystoneJS v6. Runs a React Sydney meetup.
Zach Silveira - Prisma ambassador. Original creator of the React Podcast alongside Jed and Michael Chan. Loves full stack TS, and SwiftUI.
Scott Massengale - Our design expert. Spent time working on enterprise applications at Apple. Has a passion for improving design culture.
Javier Orejarena - Looking to break into the frontend development industry, he's the perfect person to test out coding tutorials and cover interviewing topics.
Chris Scott - Senior frontend developer interested in teaching you all the latest in the JS world, from new frameworks, to setting up frontend processes.
Spencer Jones - Indie startup hacker. With a goal of 2k MRR per month this year, he'll teach us how to make side projects that succeed.
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