Functional Web Apps with Simon MacDonald on Web Rush #180

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?

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const podcast = { 
  episode: 180,
  title: 'Functional Web Apps',
  topics: [ 
    'web apps', 'microservices', 'javascript'
  ],
  guest: 'Simon MacDonald'
  hosts: [
    'Craig Shoemaker', 'Ward Bell'
  ]
};

Recording date: 3/31/2002

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Simon MacDonald @Macdonst

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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.