Why is it important to be on the loop for the latest and greatest FE technologies out there? The latest JavaScript framework? What's possible with the latest CSS? Performance and SEO... There's just so much. We share our tips and tricks to stay fresh and relevant. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://rica…

We explain the differences, share examples and give you plenty resources to get you started. Chucho can't stress enough that you should read these at least once! patterns.dev Gang Of Four GOF Design Patterns Design Patterns deceptive.design Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…

We talk about web development conferences, going in-person or attending online. Are they worth it? What's the benefit? Couldn't you just watch a recording? What's the most interesting conference you've ever attended? If you haven't yet, any conferences you'd like to go to? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres htt…

We chat what is code quality, what are code smells, tips and tricks to make your code readable and maintainable. What are your tips? Code quality metrics: https://www.sealights.io/code-quality/code-quality-metrics-is-your-code-any-good/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…

We discuss different ways to do knowledge sharing in your team or company. The challenges we've faced and what has worked for us. Find out about our Netcentric Academy https://www.netcentric.biz/jobs Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…

Did you know we have both this and a different internal FE podcast? The internal podcast started first and gave us the idea to start one on YouTube. Tune in to know how it all began and what we learned along the way. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…

What is Accessibility? What's your experience with Web Accessibility? What does it mean a website is accessible? Keyboard navigation? Labels? These and more in today's episode. https://accessibility.day/ https://www.w3.org/WAI/ https://dynomapper.com/blog/27-accessibility-testing/273-wcag-the-web-content-accessibility-guidelines-explained Follow us…

What's your take on Web Components? What are the best use cases? Should you use them for regular AEM projects? What's the best thing about Web Components? Check out a performance comparison of different frameworks and techniques to create Web Components: https://webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-ways-to-make-a-web-component/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañ…

SPA? MPA? Are these still relevant in 2024? When would you use an SPA vs a regular MPA? Have you heard about the new View Transitions API? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardChucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres

FE Manager, FE Lead... there are many names for what we think might be the same thing. We discuss what a FE Lead is accountable for. What to expect from a FE Lead? Types of leaderships. Join the conversation and tell us what's the your ideal type of FE Lead. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.soc…

We discuss UI, UX, design and the role of the frontend developer. Reading recommendations Links https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/ Books by Donald Norman The design of Everyday Things Emotional Design Books by Jakob Nielsen Usability Engineering Designing Web Usability Eyetrac…

Today we're joined by Dragan Filipovic, Senior Front-end Software Engineer at Cognizant Netcentric. We talk how he spearheaded the initiative to open source our FE Build. A Frontend build system that can be used in both AEM and non-AEM projects. Try it out here: https://github.com/Netcentric/fe-build Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.co…

When creating web components for content editors, do you give them all the options? or take decisions that will work best for development and maintenance? We discuss headless vs server-side rendering as well. Ricard loves JSON files. Chucho? Maybe not. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@r…

What is the Impostor Syndrome? How to fight it? Why is it more common than we think in Frontend development? We discuss this and offer some tips that have worked for us! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardChucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres

We talk about GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, phind, and Bard. We share how we use it for coding. How about you? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardChucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres

How can you find time for your career development? ⏱️ Here’s our take on it: In the latest episode of the hit Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we discuss the strategies that frontend leads and managers employ to make room for growth amidst their daily responsibilities. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://r…

Is the mobile-first mindset still relevant in the world of development? 🧐 Here’s the deal: Today we discuss the best practices and approaches for developing websites and apps for mobile devices. Chucho mentions Ricard's library for Two Way Data Binding, here it is: https://github.com/quicoto/two-way-data-binding Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https:…

What benefits frontend developers the most: working on long-term projects, or switching every six months? 🤝 We discuss the FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) on new technologies in the changing world of frontend development. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…

Looking for a better way to optimize and improve your project’s web performance? 🚀 We’ve got you covered: Today Chucho and Ricard are joined by Ines Akrap, Senior Web Performance Engineer, for insights into Core Web Vitals in 2023. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard Additional reso…

Are you a web developer or designer passionate about creating visually stunning, high-performance websites? 🤩 We review the optimal ways how to upload images in 2023. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard Additional resources: - https://web.dev/learn/images - https://squoosh.app…

Today we react! It's not necessary but it would give you more context if you watched first Rich Harris' video before listening to the episode. If not, that's ok too, we'll try to give you as much context as possible. Rich Harris' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXCipjbcQfM Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Tor…

There is one question on the minds of web developers and tech enthusiasts everywhere: How 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 relevant is progressive enhancement and graceful degradation in 2023? In the latest episode of the Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we spill the tea on whether these approaches are still worth it, as well as the best techniques to get the most out of them …

We talk about what we look for on a website when it comes to web performance. What are the basic things we first check? What tools do we use? FE developers even if not web performance experts need to be able to identify issues and how to solve them. At Cognizant Netcentric we've written some articles about web performance, have a look: https://www.…

Time to get real: Should you 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 document your code? We’re breaking it down in the latest episode of the Frontend Coffee Break podcast. Our resident experts, Jesús and Ricard, weigh in on whether you should document your code, how often this should be done, and why every developer should use JSDoc on a daily basis. What's your take on this topic…

Take a moment to consider your current JavaScript debugging process. Thankfully, we're dropping some hot tips to make things run smoothly. In the latest episode of the hit Frontend Coffee Break podcast, Ricard and Chucho delve into the most effective ways to debug JavaScript in 2023, which’ll save every developer loads of time and frustration. What…

How do you know what to learn next? What's the required skills to move to the next level of your career? Do the skills in job offers reflect what you do on your day to day? Today we discuss that and how we've implemented for FE at Cognizant Netcentric. Here some roadmaps to get inspired: https://frontendmasters.com/guides/learning-roadmap/ https://…

Ricard loves unit testing! Chucho will challenge it, is it worth it? A waste of time? Who's going to win today's fight? Do you write unit tests in your projects? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardChucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres

We've been interviewing for a very long time, now that we only do remote interviews we share our tips, do's, best stories and some horrors too. Share with us what was your best interview, or any tips you can give the rest of the listeners. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…

We love to build side projects, to learn something new, have fun, or just solve a problem. Today we discuss what these are and some tips, as well as ideas. Question for you: do you usually do side projects? Share the latest you've done! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…

We give you our take on why we think knowledge sharing is important and some of the ways we do it at Cognizant Netcentric. What's your experience with public speaking? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardChucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres

CSS has come so far, we share what we used to do, what we do in JS and what can we do in CSS. What are you most looking for in CSS for 2023? Is there any change that has surprised you this year? Learn more: https://smolcss.dev/ https://www.udemy.com/course/css-grid-mastering/ https://flexboxfroggy.com/ https://cssgridgarden.com/ Follow us: - Chucho…

When starting a website do you always think about the JavaScript framework first? Can we reduce the amount of JavaScript? Server Side Rendering is still the best approach? Learn more: - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Progressive_Enhancement - https://qwik.builder.io Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricar…

Do you use TypeScript? Should you? When is it a good approach? Large projects, small projects... Join in on the discussion. Learn more: - https://www.typescriptlang.org/ - https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations - https://github.com/features/copilot Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.so…

In this episode, we share our perspectives on the must-have knowledge, understanding of frameworks and the kinds skills Frontend Developers need to have today. Learn more: - https://frontendmasters.com/guides/learning-roadmap/ - https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS - https://www.amazon.es/Secrets-JavaScript-Ninja-John-Resig/dp /193398869X Fol…

Our topic for today is desktop apps, specifically applications created using Frontend technologies (HTML, JS, and CSS), which are specifically designed for desktop use. Is it your first time coding a desktop application? Then tune in and listen to how they create desktop apps using Frontend stack and get your insights. Learn more: https://www.elect…

In a world of vlogs, is blogging something from the last decade? We dare to say blogging is still a trending topic! In this episode of Frontend Coffee Break, Chucho and Ricard discuss the basics, the latest technology stack, and the benefits of blogging. Tune in and listen to their personal and professional blogging experiences! Do you have a blog?…