163 JSJ Flow with Jeff Morrison and Avik Chaudhuri
JavaScript Jabber - A podcast by AJ ONeal, Charles Max Wood, Aimee Knight, Dan Shappir, Steve Edwards, Christopher Buecheler, Dave Smith, JC Hiatt, Chris Ferdinandi, Steve Emmerich, Joe Eames, Aaron Frost, Tim Caswell, Cory House, Christian Liebel, Ward Bell, Tracy Lee, Jamison D... - Tuesdays
Categories:
03:32 - Jeff Morrison Introduction
03:46 - Avik Chaudhuri Introduction
04:27 - Flow
05:36 - Static Type Checking
09:52 - Flow and Unit Testing
12:39 - Gradual Typing
15:07 - Type Inference
17:50 - Keeping Up with New Features in JavaScript
20:49 - Generators
24:46 - Working on Flow
28:27 - Flow vs TypeScript
- Inference Support
- Tony Hoare: Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
35:41 - Putting the “Java” Back in JavaScript
- Server/Client Overview
- Prototyping
45:26 - Flow and the JavaScript Community
46:43 - React Support
48:39 - Documentation
- gh-pages (link to the docs)
- IRC Channel for Flow: #flowtype on webchat.freenode.net
Picks
Nolan Lawson: We have a problem with promises (Aimee)
Jim 'N Nick's BBQ Restaurant (Aimee)
Frank McSherry: Scalability! But at what COST? (Jamison)
Frank McSherry: Bigger data; same laptop (Jamison)
Greg Wilson: What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True (Jamison)
Marron: Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/HTML Applications (Jeff)
Real World OCaml (Jeff)
Muse (Jeff)
Shtetl-Optimized (Avik)
Chef's Table (Avik)