About Laurie Laurie has been a web developer for 25 years and cares deeply about making the web bigger and better for everyone. He previously co-founded awe.sm and npm, and is currently a Senior Data Analyst at Netlify. Links: Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/seldo Personal website: https://seldo.com/
In this special episode of JS Party, KBall and Nick are on location at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver. They talks with Laurie Voss, co-founder and COO of npm Inc. They chat about his talk, “npm and the Future of JavaScript”, JavaScript frameworks, and how the definition of “the fundamentals of the web” is constantly changing. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days. Algolia – Our search partner. Algolia’s full suite search APIs enable teams to develop unique search and discovery experiences across all platforms and devices. We’re using Algolia to power our site search here at Changelog.com. Get started for free and learn more at algolia.com. Featuring: Laurie Voss – Website, GitHub, X Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Laurie’s Talk: npm and the Future of JavaScript slides npm and the Future of JavaScript recording from NEJS Methodology of Survey blog post React Everywhere React Native React Desktop React Router Other References CommonJS WASM Backbone Gutenberg Yarn Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!