Q&A transcripts

Since 2016, Reactiflux has hosted Q&As with the people who build React, React Native, and the libraries and tools around them. Members bring the questions; these are the transcripts, newest first.

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Jenny Truong, June 2023: Drawing on Jenny’s experience working at a highly-productive startup, join us as Carl Vitullo talks with her about how burnout can manifest, how it can impact…
Communication with Elizabeth Woolf, May 2023: Developing software requires a lot of communication with other developers, with other teams and divisions, with managers or less experienced developers. Carl V…
React Miami with Michelle Bakels, April 2023: Michelle Bakels is co-organizer of React Miami and Program Director of Developer Health at G2i, a hiring platform for Javascript and React developers with deep…
Sunil Pai and Mark Erikson, March 2023: Rewrites! Everyone wants to do one, but the software industry is littered with examples of failed rewrites. Our host Carl Vitullo is joined by Mark Erikson and…
Ankita Kulkarni, March 2023: When Ankita became a manager, she had to find mentors to help her learn the subtle intricacies of being a successful manager. Now, she’s taking what she learne…
Behind the React Documentary, February 2023: A documentary about React, produced by Honeypot.io, was released on February 10th, and Carl Vitullo spoke with two of the people instrumental in making it happ…
Josh W Comeau, February 2023: Josh Comeau is an indie hacker, educator, and long-time member of the React community. He has a brilliant way of intuitively explaining complex subjects, and w…
Tejas Kumar, January 2023: Tejas has worked in developer relations for years at companies like Vercel, Spotify, Xata, and G2i, and is now an independent educator and content creator. He'…
Wix team, January 2023: Wix has been making web development more accessible since 2006, and they're currently celebrating the release of their new project Codux, a visual IDE for Reac…
Matt Pocock, January 2023: Matt Pocock is an educator building content and workshops to help developers become TypeScript wizards.
David K Piano, March 2022: Founder @ stately.ai – Visual software modeling tools and services for making app logic more accessible and robust.
Hasura Team, February 2022: Founder & Tech Lead @ hasura.io - Postgres-backed GraphQL backend as a service | Topic: Building a high-performance GraphQL engine for Postgres
Tabnine Team, January 2022: Tabnine is building a top-to-bottom AI-assisted development workflow that empowers all code creators, in all languages, from concept through to completion.
Nikhil Nandagopal, December 2021: Building appsmith.com, the future of app development!
Erin Fox, December 2021: Software Engineer @ConvertKit
Ali Spittel, November 2021: Leads Developer Advocacy @awsamplify // co-host @ladybugpodcast // blogger welearncode // Python + Javascript engineer // advisor polyworkhq
Ahmad Awais, October 2021: Award-winning dev edutainer: http://NodeCLI.com · http://VSCode.pro - Head of DevRel @Rapid_API - @GoogleDevs Expert - @Nodejs Outreach - @WordPress Core
Netlify Team: Cassidy Williams & Jason Lengstorf, September 2021: A web platform for modern websites and applications
Eve Porcello, August 2021: Teaches JS/GraphQL/React at @moonhighway + @eggheadio + @li_learning and author of @oreillymedia’s Learning React + Learning GraphQL
Jenn Creighton, July 2021: Senior Staff OSS Engineer at @apollographql, host of the single-threaded podcast, and organizer of #WomenOfReact2020 + @useReactNYC
Sentry.io Team, April 2021: The team from Sentry.io will be on to answer all your questions! Sentrys application monitoring platform helps every developer diagnose, fix, & optimize the pe…
Max Stoiber, March 2021: Engineer @ GatsbyJS. Creator of styled-components & react-boilerplate. Maker of Bedrock & Feedback Fish
Yarn Team, February 2021: Lead maintainer and core contributor from the Yarn Team
Wallaby Team, January 2021: The team that creates Wallaby.js and Quokka.js will be on to answer questions about their products, JavaScript/TypeScript testing, and how they create software…
Jared Palmer, January 2021: Creator of Formik, Razzle, TSDX, and more. Founder of Formium and host of The Undefined Podcast
Stephanie Morillo, December 2020: Author of The Developers Guide to Content Creation and much more. Senior PM & Content Strategist with an MSc in UXD. I help developers become better content cr…
Michael Shilman & Gert Hengeveld, November 2020: Maintainers of Storybook
Nader Dabit, October 2020: Founder @ React Native Training | Host of React Native Radio | Author of React Native in Action
David McCabe, September 2020: Author of Recoil
Brandon Bayer, July 2020: Creator of Blitz.js, a monolithic React framework built on top of Next.js
Shawn Wang, June 2020: Senior Developer Advocate at AWS Mobile and author of Cracking The Coding Career
TypeScript Team @ Microsoft, December 2019: The team from Microsoft working on TypeScript will be on to answer all your TS related questions! TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to…
Microsoft React Native Windows Team, October 2019: Eric, Harini, and Paul are engineers @ Microsoft. They will be on to discuss their work on React Native for Windows
Frank von Hoven & Gant Laborde, September 2019: Frank is a Senior Software Engineer at Infinite Red, Organizer at Chain React Conference, and Editor-in-Chief of The React Native Newsletter. Gant is CTS of In…
Bob Scarano & Craig Blagg, August 2019: Bob is the team lead of the Mobile Content-Editing team at Squarespace. Craig is the team lead of the Design Platform team.
React Native core team (August 2019), August 2019
Clubhouse Team, July 2019: Clubhouse is a project management platform for software development that brings everyone together to build better products. Clubhouse is built using tools like…
Vladimir Novick, June 2019: Developer Relations @ Hasura.io
Conrad Irwin, June 2019: Conrad is the co-founder & CTO @ Superhuman. Superhuman is an amazing email client built with React/Electron. It's basically VIM for email.
Janic Duplessis, May 2019: React Native core contributor. Co-founder @ th3rdwave.
React Native core team (May 2019), May 2019
Kristijan Ristovki, April 2019: Founder of React Academy. Working on @twizzyapp, @sizzyapp, @jsui_app, and http://ok-google.io.
Ryan Florence (April 2019), April 2019: React Router Co-Author | reacttraining.com
Kent C Dodds, March 2019: Engineer @ Paypal, Teaching via Egghead & Frontendmasters, and Author of react-testing-library, downshift, glamorous, & an all around good dude.
Jamon Holmgren, February 2019: Co-Founder & CTO @ Infinite Red, React Native Core, Chain React: The React Native Conference Organizer
React Native core team (January 2019), January 2019
Gatsby Team, December 2018: Founder of Gatsby.js
Jeroen Ransijn, November 2018: Design Systems Lead @ Segment, spearheading the design, development and adoption of Segment's open-source design system, Evergreen
Sophie Alpert (August 2018), August 2018: Engineering Manager for React.js Team @ Facebook | The React Podcast – Episode #11 - Inside React with Sophie Alpert
Peggy Rayzis & James Baxley, May 2018: Open Source Engineers @ Apollo | Building Apollo Client, Engine, Server, and other tools to help you incrementally adopt GraphQL.
Jared Palmer, May 2018: Engineering Lead @ The Palmer Group | Author of Formik, Razzle, Backpack, react-fns, After.js, etc.
Jordan Eldredge, April 2018: Engineer @ Facebook working on Nuclide | Author of Winamp2-js
Zack Argyle, April 2018: Tech Lead @ Pinterest | Pinterest PWA built w/ React - Performance Case Study
Sacha Greif, March 2018: Sacha Greif is a designer/developer living in Japan. Author of VulcanJS, the React + GraphQL framework. | Vulcan Docs | What is Vulcan? | An app in 15 days wit…
Johannes Schickling & Soren Bramer Schmidt, January 2018: Co-Founders of Graphcool. A Serverless GraphQL backend for frontend developers. Graphcool also created Learn Relay/Learn Apollo and organizes the GraphQL-Europ…
Brent Erickson & David de Regt, January 2018: Engineers @ Microsoft/Skype developing ReactXP (https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp)
Nicolas Gallagher, December 2017: Engineer @ Twitter | Creator of react-native-web
Eli White, November 2017: React Native Core Team @ Facebook
Kurtis Kemple, October 2017: Tech lead on the UI team @Major League Soccer. Organizer of @NYCGraphQL.
Nader Dabit, September 2017: Founder @ React Native Training | Host of React Native Radio | Author of React Native in Action
Charlie Cheever, September 2017: Founder @ Expo.io | Co-Founder Quora.com | More About Charlie
Henry Zhu, July 2017: Engineer at Adobe (Behance Team) · Babel Maintainer
Christoph Nakazawa, July 2017: Engineer at Facebook London · Jest · Yarn · RNP
Leland Richardson, June 2017: Engineer at Airbnb heavily involved in React Native (Enzyme, React-Native Maps, Lottie, Animated etc.)
Graphcool, June 2017: Co-Founders of Graphcool. A Serverless GraphQL backend for frontend developers. Graphcool also created Learn Relay/Learn Apollo and organizes the GraphQL-Europ…
Brian Vaughn, May 2017: React.js Core Team at Facebook. Creator of react-virtualized
Andrew Clark, April 2017: React.js Core Team at Facebook. Co-creator of Redux. Creator of Recompose
Jordan Walke, January 2017: React.js Creator
Cheng Lou, January 2017: Facebook Engineer focused on Reason & Messenger.com
Ryan Florence, September 2016: React Router Co-Author | reactjs-training.com
Christopher Chedeau, September 2016: Facebook React Core Team
Relay Team, August 2016
Lee Byron, July 2016: Facebook Engineer - GraphQL Co-Creator
Jonathan Carter & Geoffrey Goh, July 2016: Microsoft Visual Studio/CodePush Team | Topic is React Native continuous delivery with VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services), CodePush and HockeyApp.
Mike Grabowski, June 2016: React Native Core Contributor | RNPM Author | Topic is native modules, installing dependencies, tooling & native shipping
Sophie Alpert (June 2016), June 2016: Facebook React.js Core Team
Devin Abbott, May 2016: Deco Software | Topic is Deco their awesome React Native IDE
Dan Abramov, April 2016: Facebook React.js Core Team
Eric Vicenti, March 2016: Facebook Engineer