OpenHive.JS

For this episode of OpenHive.JS, we welcome Charlie Robbins, a Senior Director of Engineering at GoDaddy where he leads teams including GoDaddy’s Design System, Engineering Rigor, and Open Source Programs Office. Founder and former CEO of Nodejitsu, Charlie is an open source enthusiast, community builder and author of many popular Node.js libraries. The discussions centre around the current and future state of Node.js, challenges of evolving open source projects, Isomorphic JavaScript, Deno, TypeScript and ESM.

For this episode of OpenHive.JS, we welcome Yoni Goldberg, an independent software architect who specialises in crafting advanced web applications using Node.js. A consultant, conference speaker and open source contributor, Yoni loves to blog and is the author of “Node.js Best Practices” and similar guides. The discussions centre around integration tests with JavaScript, automated testing, component testing, unit testing, contract testing, optimising testing performance, and dealing with data in tests.

For this episode of OpenHive.JS, we welcome Rob Palmer, the JavaScript Infrastructure and Tooling Lead at Bloomberg. He is also a co-chair of TC39 and passionate about keeping JavaScript fresh. The discussions centre around Server Side JavaScript, TypeScript, the Bloomberg Terminal, Chromium, OpenJS Foundation, Node.js, EsNext, Fastify, ESM modules, Record and Tuple, Temporal, Open Source funding and lots more.

For this episode of OpenHive.JS, we welcome Danielle Adams, the Node.js Language Owner at Heroku, who leads the Node platform for JavaScript and TypeScript developers. She is also a graduate student at New York University focusing on cybersecurity, a network director for Women Who Code in NYC, and an international public speaker. The discussions centre around releasing Node.js, Heroku Buildpacks, citgm, the Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Buildpacks and lots more.

For this episode of OpenHive.JS, we welcome Kent C. Dodds, software engineer, open-source developer and passionate educator for people working in JavaScript, Node.js and more. The discussions centre around writing quality code to make the world a better place, React, egghead.io, Frontend Masters, Testing Javascript, Epic React, scaling workshops, purchasing power parity, Testing Library, Babel, and building an open-source community.

This episode of OpenHive.JS was recorded across four continents, with people in Italy, Colombia, California and Dubai — a fitting setup for a conversation focused on building and strengthening global communities and connections. The discussions centre around building successful developer communities, creating impact, the importance of accessibility and diversity, gender equality in tech, p5.js library, NodeConf Columbia, JSconf Columbia, MedillinJS, Pioneras Developers, Nodesource, Covid Green, and Fastify.

In this special joint episode of OpenHive.JS and Decoded, the roundtable tech series from NearForm, Matteo welcomes Conor O’Neill, Anna Henningsen and Eric Lewis to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of JavaScript by discussing what we can expect and hope for in the next 25 years. The discussions centre around how JavaScript has matured over the last 25 years, anticipations for future JavaScript evolution, Node.js, Deno, React, React Native, TypeScript, Electron, class operators, npm, software reuse, Espruino, SWC, worker-threads, Babel, Rome, Hermes, Swift, the Mozilla Foundation, WASM, CodeSandbox, CodeSpaces for github and Snowpack.

For the tenth episode of OpenHive.JS, we pick up right where we left off in conversation with Mikeal Rogers, IPLD Lead at Protocol Labs, NodeConf creator and JavaScript thought leader. If you haven’t listened to episode 9, you may want to start there. The discussions centre around the open source model, attracting talent to open source projects, bottlenecks, handling transactional integrity of applications, ESM transition, modern web development, the future of web development, packages as a data structure, performance optimisations and hash linked data structures.

For the ninth episode of OpenHive.JS, we sit down for a detailed, insightful and entertaining conversation with Mikeal Rogers, IPLD Lead at Protocol Labs, creator of NodeConf and longtime friend of NearForm. The discussions centre around decentralised databases, the importance of good data, encryption, serverless, life after the Node.js Foundation, p2p databases and data structures, CouchDB, PouchDB, Merkle trees, content addressing, hashing, parsing data, DagDB, self-describing data structures, libp2p and privacy in p2p databases.

In this episode of OpenHive.JS, we welcome Anthony Aragues, author of Visualising Streaming Data, to discuss the value of data visualisation within the context of modern technology and innovation. The discussions centre around the art of making data intuitive, data visualisation, tools and libraries used to make data useful, performance vs. usability, React, Create React App, AntD, AntV, AntV G6, AlaSQL, Papa Parse, MongoDB, Redis, MQTT, websockets, dashboards, data analysis, distributed tracing, and getting started with data visualisation.

In this episode of OpenHive.JS, we sit down with Alessandro Polidori, a senior software engineer and popular tech speaker with more than a decade of experience, to discuss the role of open source and Node.js in the technology that powers much of our communications today. The discussions centre around using Node.js to control VOIP communication, WebRTC, Asterisk PBX, FreePBX, trunks, softphones, JsSIP, SIP.js, Rest APIs, Cloud Nine IDE, handling errors and memory leaks in VoIP applications, flamegraphs, Fastify, and Janus Gateway.

In this episode of OpenHive.JS, we speak with Kenigbolo Meya Stephen about the ever important role of documentation in open source software development. The discussions centre around key elements of documentation, technical writing, developing technical skills for aspiring developers, mentoring, and project management.

In this special all-NearForm episode, we welcome our colleagues Colm Harte, Kevin Devine and Shaun Baker, who have spent the past several weeks designing, building and deploying Covid-19 contact tracing apps, including the highly successful COVID Tracker Ireland app. The discussions centre around challenges faced in development and design, technology used in the app, Amazon Web Services technologies, ReactNative, tools used, designing for usability and simplicity, the importance of collaboration, addressing privacy concerns, and interoperability between apps.

Ramón discusses modern web APIs and developer experience. The discussions centre around JavaScript command-line tools, service workers, how to choose web APIs, browser support, payment request API, strategies for dealing with legacy APIs, performance, bridging the gap between native mobile applications and desktop applications, and TypeScript.

Laurie discusses life as a gatsby maintainer. The discussions centre around open source sustainability, working on complex open source projects, leveraging an open source community, style guides, the gatsby business model, the gatsby ecosystem, sourcing data in gatsby, getting started with gatsby, the importance of documentation, and guidelines.

Liran discusses the challenges of maintaining open source projects. The discussions centre around strategy for building successful open source projects, pull requests, feature requests, bug fixes, tooling, formatting, style guides, creating a community, communication, sustainability, processes, monetary compensation for building open source projects, and corporate open source etiquette.

Philipp discusses the tc39 Temporal proposal and why it is needed. The discussions centre around handling date and time in JavaScript, dealing with time zones, what’s wrong with the current data object, calendar integration, standardisation, vendor implementation, comparing Temporal and Moment.js, history and evolution of dates in JavaScript, and integrating Temporal with Node.js.