RedwoodJS: The JS App Framework with Anthony Campolo

JavaScript Jam

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

Show Notes

Anthony 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)