Anthony Campolo, a Developer Advocate at StepZen and Lead Developer Advocate on the RedwoodJS Core team, offers unique insight for young developers starting on their career path. Campolo 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, Campolo shares his stories and insight as a developer, and gives a great demo of the RedwoodJS framework.
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Key moments:
• 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)
