See you later, humans!

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Jerod & the gang catch you up on what’s new and poppin’ in the web development world. We go deep on GitHub Copilot X and the latest AI advancements, take a bathroom break while Nick talks about TypeScript 5 & continue the debate about the future of React.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• GitHub Copilot X
• Mozilla.ai
• Firefly Adobe GenAI
• TypeScript 5.0
• React.dev is now a thing

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Welcome, friends (00:01:03)

3. GitHub Copilot X (00:01:47)

https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-powered-developer-experience/

4. GPT-4 in your editor (00:05:21)

5. GPT-4 in your docs & PRs (00:10:39)

6. The other Copilot (00:14:24)

7. Copilot all the things (00:17:22)

8. See you later, humans! (00:19:52)

9. Mozilla & AI for the rest of us (00:21:47)

https://mozilla.ai

10. Where's Apple? (00:24:15)

11. Adobe is doing cool stuff (00:26:44)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/21/adobe-firefly-generative-ai-lets-you-type-to-edit-images.html

12. Copilot in interviews? (00:29:11)

13. Sponsor: Changelog++ (00:32:52)

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14. Nick's beloved TypeScript 5.0 (00:33:47)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-0/

15. Unbreak Nick's heart (00:36:05)

16. TypeScripters are vegan?! (00:37:20)

17. TypeScript vs K8s adoption (00:38:37)

18. Enom-nom-erators (00:41:42)

19. A compelling argument (00:42:33)

20. React.dev launches (00:44:03)

https://react.dev

21. Debating the future of React (00:46:12)

22. The bigger problem of too much JS (00:54:04)

23. Nuance wrt DX vs UX (00:57:20)

24. The need to evaluate (00:59:31)

25. Nick's beshoveled TypeScript (01:00:40)

26. Nick tries to have the final word (01:01:30)

27. KBall steals the final word (01:04:13)

28. Amal gets the actual final word (01:06:26)

29. Quick wrap up (01:08:12)

30. Next up on the pod (01:08:37)