Panel:

Joe

Amy

Charles

Special Guests:

Eric Simmons

Albert Pai

In this episode, JavaScript Jabbers talk to Eric Simmons and Albert Pai, the co-founder of thinkster.io, where their team teaches the bleeding edge of javascript technology’s various frameworks and backend. Also, with the recent creation of Stalkblitz, which is the center topic of today discussion.

Stackblitz it an online VS Code IDE for Angular, React, and a few more others are supported. This is designed to run web pack and vs code inside your browser at blazing fast speeds. Eric and Albert dive into the many different advantages and services available by StackBlitz and thinker.io.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Similarities and differences to Heroku
• System JS
• Stacklets
• Testing and creating an in-browser system file system
• Creating a type of VS Code experience, Working Off Line
• Updating of the Stacklets
• Deployment tools or exporting
• Hot Reloading
• Integrated terminals
• Monaco
• Language Services
• How do you architect this implementation
• The innovation of browsers
• Guy Bedford
• Financing vs. Chipotle Burritos
• Will this product in the future cost money

Links

• thinkster.io
• https://medium.com/@ericsimons/stackblitz-online-vs-code-ide-for-angular-react-7d09348497f4
• @stackblitz
• stackblitz.com

Picks

Amy

• Promises Series by Andrew Del Prete
• Crossfit

Joe

• Wholesome Meme
• Sara Cooper

Charles

• Pivotal Tracker
• MatterMost
• asana.com
• Zapier

Eric

• realworld.io
• David East

Albert

• thinkster.io
• Thing Explainer