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PodRocket covers everything you need to know about frontend web development on a weekly basis. Join our hosts as they interview experienced developers about all the libraries, frameworks, and tech industry issues they deal with every day.
Episodes


WASM 3.0 with Andreas Rossberg

Semantic HTML still matters with Jono Alderson

State of CSS in 2025 with Adam Argyle and Kevin Powell

Google’s antitrust win, AI mandates, npm attacks and robots.txt

Unpacking the NPM supply chain attacks with Feross Aboukhadijeh

Mark Dalgeish on mastering RSCs with React Router

Modularizing the monolith with Jimmy Bogard
In this episode of PodRocket, Paul interviews Jimmy Bogard about modularizing monoliths, focusing on improving existing systems by creating boundaries within them before considering a transition to microservices. Jimmy differentiates this approach from building microservices first, which can lead to distributed monolit...

Rolldown and VoidZero's vision for the future of JavaScript tooling with Alexander Lichter
In this episode of PodRocket, Paige Niederinghaus and Noel Minschau interview Alexander Lichter, DevRel at Void Zero, about Rolldown, a tool designed to improve Vite's bundling speed using Rust. Alexander discusses how Rolldown integrates the best features from bundlers like Rollup, ESBuild, and Webpack, aiming to unif...

The useless useCallback: React performance myths unpacked, with Dominik Dorfmeister
In this episode of the PodRocket podcast, host Paige Niedringhaus interviews Dominik Dorfmeister, a software engineer at Sentry and open-source maintainer, about the overuse and potential pitfalls of useCallback and useMemo in React.js. Dominik argues that while these hooks are intended to improve performance through m...

Navigating the AI bubble, the 10x AI engineer, and the Cloudflare vs. Perplexity data grab

React beyond the DOM: exploring custom renderers with Erik Rasmussen

Modern React Patterns: Concurrent Rendering & Actions with Aurora Scharff
In this episode of PodRocket, Noel interviews Aurora Scharff, a senior consultant at Crayon Consulting, about modern React patterns, concurrent rendering, and actions. Aurora explains concurrent features in React 18 and 19, including useTransition for managing state updates and async calls. She details how useTransitio...

Poor Sleep, Big Pay Gaps, Culture Shifts: The State of Devs in 2025 with Sacha Greif

NuxtLabs joins Vercel with Daniel Roe

Typescript Is SO SLOW...Or Is It? with Mike Hartington

Building Jarvis: MCP and the future of AI with Kent C Dodds

How Lingo.dev is reimagining i18n in React

Goodbye, useState with David Khourshid

React Router and why file-routing sucks with Brooks Lybrand
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