From Shoelace to Web Awesome

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Shoelace creator Cory LaViska joins Amal & Jess to tell them all about the forward-thinking library of web components that just joined the Font Awesome family to create Web Awesome.

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Featuring:

• Cory LaViska – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
• Jessica Sachs – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Shoelace.style
• Font Awesome
• Web Awesome

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Hello party people (00:00:56)

3. Getting to know Cory (00:02:19)

4. The creation of Shoelace (00:06:42)

5. Why the name? (00:09:51)

6. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:10:35)

https://speakeasyapi.dev/

7. The Bootstrap Era (00:14:14)

8. What Stencil is (00:21:21)

9. Web Awesome (00:22:53)

10. The business model (00:30:05)

11. Migration helpers (00:35:37)

12. Why not both? (00:38:25)

13. Sponsor: CrabNebula (00:44:21)

https://crabnebula.dev/devtools/

14. React wrappers (00:45:22)

15. Vue & Angular (00:47:03)

16. Solid JS (00:49:33)

17. Mitosis (00:50:54)

18. Don't say the L word (00:55:05)

19. Amal's advice (00:59:11)

20. Excited for launch! (01:00:24)

21. Congrats & thanks (01:02:20)

22. The sheer number of components (01:02:47)

23. Getting in touch (01:03:07)

24. Cheers! (01:06:03)

25. Next up on the pod (01:06:38)