Frontend First

About Frontend First

A podcast about modern UI development on the web. Hosted by Sam Selikoff and Ryan Toronto.

Publisher

Sam Selikoff, Ryan Toronto

Category

technology · technology · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jun 2017

Latest episode

12 Dec 2024

Latest episodes

25 of 201 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Creating a background gradient from an image

   Ryan talks to Sam about reproducing iOS's new image background treatment for his Open Graph Preview tool, opengraph.ing. They talk about different approaches for generating gradients from images, including finding the vibrant color of an image, luminosity-weighted averages, k-means clustering, and more.

2. 

   14 Nov 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Exploring useActionState

   Sam and Ryan talk about React 19's useActionState hook. They discuss how adding async functions to a plain React app introduces lots of in-between states that developers must grapple with, and how useActionState allows React to collapse and eliminate these states, bringing the simplicity of React's sync mental model to our async code.

3. 

   31 Oct 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Cloudflare Tunnel | React Compiler | refs during render

   Sam and Ryan talk about using Cloudflare Tunnel for local development, the new React Compiler beta release, and why reading or writing refs during render violates the rules of React.

Inside a recent episode

Creating a background gradient from an image

Published 12 Dec 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I was like, not just use sharp and it remembers. That's cool. Yeah. Okay. So the next thing that it recommended or where we ended up was you find the vibrant color. So this is really interesting. You again, you loop over all the pixels in the image and you have a threshold for saturation. So I was using HSV color profile similar to HSL where the in that it's a way to represent a color with three numbers. And the S stands for saturation. In HSV, the saturation is always going to be between zero and a hundred. So white would be unsaturated. And I guess would white be unsaturated or just like a gray, gray would be unsaturated. […]

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YouTube views

53,268

Score snapshot 3 Jul 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

19 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

37 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100

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1

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

27

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