097: LWC Utils with James Hou

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">James Hou is a Salesforce Technical Architect at Google. Today I’m talking with him about his long history with JavaScript and Lightning Web Components. Specifically, we’re discussing a repo he has out there called LWC Utils.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In his early years, James started learning object-oriented programming and spent a lot of his time poring over Help Docs and Google search results. He is now no stranger to complex solutions and specific microservices. Tune in to learn from his incredible expertise and the great utility code he has created to help working with LWC.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How James transitioned from reading Help Docs to working for Google.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How he learned jQuery.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How he left Visualforce and picked up Aura.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What inspired him to start learning lightning components.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The gap between lightning message servers and full state management libraries.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What full state management libraries offer application layers. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The problems James is trying to fix with LWC Utils.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How the SOQL data table component works.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The other data tables James is working on.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level