Web Rush

Episode 180: Functional Web Apps with Simon MacDonald

Episode Summary

Simon MacDonald educates us on the value of functional web apps. What are functional web apps? Why do we need functional web apps? Do we still need static assets or HTML? How is this different from microservices?

Episode Notes

Recording date: 3/31/2002

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Simon MacDonald @Macdonst

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• Ionic

  

Resources:

• Functional Web Apps
• Server Side Generation vs Incremental Static Generation
• Begin
• Architect
• Web Components
• YAGNI

Timejumps

• 00:53 Guest introduction
• 02:05 What are fuctional web apps?
• 03:29 Why do we need functional web apps?
• 07:22 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:25 Do we still need static assets or HTML?
• 14:05 What's the process to build a form based application?
• 18:21 It's still faster than pregenerating the data?
• 20:00 What affects cold starts in JavaScript environments?
• 22:29 Sponsor: Ionic
• 23:08 How is this different from microservices?
• 28:48 Is this more like micro apps than micro services?
• 30:18 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.