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