JavaScript Jam

Anthony Campolo, Lead Developer Advocate on the RedwoodJS team, offers insight for young developers starting on their career path and demos RedwoodJS.

Show Notes

Anthony started coding 3 years ago, worked his way into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and then focused his writing on RedwoodJS, a full-stack JavaScript framework. In this episode, he shares his stories and insight as a developer, and gives a great demo of the RedwoodJS framework.

Outline

• Anthony's background and how he got involved with RedwoodJS (1:25)
• What is RedwoodJS (3:15)
• Advise to young developers (4:53)
• Ruby on Rails influence on RedwoodJS (6:31)
• What makes Ruby on Rails great (8:32)
• Team size at Redwood and its history (10:43)
• How RedwoodJS chose which pieces of the JS ecosystem to build on (12:58)
• Core libraries bundled in RedwoodJS (15:25)
• RedwoodJS demo (17:48)
     • Dynamic routing (23:53)
     • Prerending (25:33)
     • Incorporating data from the database (26:49)
     • Post cells (33:33)
     • GraphQL capabilities (37:01)
     • Deploying (37:33)
     • Authentication (46:20)
• RedwoodJS 1.0 and examples already using it (43:23)
• Bison vs. Blitz vs. RedwoodJS (47:14)
• Subscriptions (49:49)
• Future roadmap for RedwoodJS (53:19)