175: Tell Me When It's Real

On this episode of the Bike Shed, Chris is joined by Josh Clayton, thoughtbot's managing director in our Boston studio. Chris and Josh spend the episode discussing the various patterns and trends they see in the world of web development. Specifically, they touch on server side frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Phoenix in the Elixir world. In addition, they discuss a variety of front end trends including the move towards typed languages like ReasonML, TypeScript, Elm, PureScript, and Scala.js, as well as frameworks like React, Ember, Angular, and Vue.js.

• Bike Shed 20 w/ Josh Clayton: Intentionally Excruciatingly Painful
• Google Lighthouse
• Beyond React 16 by Dan Abramov - JSConf Iceland
• AirBnB Moving Away from React Native
• Josh Steiner - Elm native UI in production
• Announcing Purple Train
• ReasonML
• Elm
• TypeScript
• PureScript
• Scala.js
• Software disenchantment blog post
• 166: Are Services the New Rewrite?
• Apollo Client
• Vue.js
• Thoughtworks Technology Radar
• Parcel Bundler
• Terser javascript minifier
• Rufo - Ruby autoformatter