Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about client- and server-side validation, and what each is used for! Netlify - Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. Show Notes 02:49 - Wes’ story 06:28 - What is the role of client-side validation? Help the user input the correct data as they type it. Show correct data in UI. Show correct UI. Just about all of these things are for the user’s benefit, and how they feel when using the site. 11:10 - What is the role of server-side validation? Validate that all the data is correct before it’s saved to the database Security first and foremost 15:03 - What process should a store follow to validate on the server? Check that correct types are coming in. Very easy with Graphql. Get current stock and price information from unique ids from the database. Confirm that this information is what the user is expecting — if the UI said the user will be charged $40, don’t charge them $50 just because of the updated info. In that case, send back to the user. 17:17 - What do you do if you don’t want people messing with your React state? @fvilers/disable-react-devtools if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') disableReactDevTools() We do this on LUT. Why? Because it’s a deterrent. Links uses.tech Flipp App GraphQL Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Benjamin Dunphy about running conferences — what to do, what not to do, and what makes a good online conference in a post-Covid world! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Guests Benjamin Dunphy Show Notes 03:48 - How do you get started running a conference? 10:05 - Which conferences have you run? 18:05 - How do you get speakers? 23:21 - What about paying speakers? 28:26 - Speaker goody bags? 32:40 - You started your own catering company? 35:32 - How has Coronavirus affected the conference space? 43:06 - Should online conferences try to replicate live conferences? Links Reactathon Jamstackconf Epicodus Meetup Flutter Lifted Plate DevRelCon EventLoop Modern Web Summit @Swizec Sanity Review Changes @tylermcginnis Syntax 250: Scott Teaches Wes Svelte and Sapper ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Ben: Serverless Handbook for Frontend Engineers Scott: Tineco Pure One S12 Wes: Chromecast Shameless Plugs Ben: EventLoop Modern Web Summit Scott: Animating Svelte - Sign up for the year and save 50%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS Grid Level 3 — why it’s such a cool thing and why they’ve been waiting for it for so long. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 04:33 - The spec https://drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-3/ https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1320735900343668738 06:10 - How it works masonry-auto-flow: next; It first puts all the items that are explicitly placed onto the grid. Items that you have a set start/stop value for are first put down. Then it takes the next item that it to be placed and finds a spot for it. This is different because with CSS Grid you normally have to place the next item on the next row or column. grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows can now be marked as masonry and this specifies which axis will be masonry. 09:06 - The implicit grid https://drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-3/#%23implicit-grid The implicit grid is formed in the same way as a regular grid container. However, it’s only used in the grid axis. Interesting in a column situation (see images). 13:25 - Thoughts Power tools for layout in CSS — opens up a ton of possibilities and completes the functionality we use to dream of in CSS. Links David DeSandro https://metafizzy.co/ Chris Coyier https://caniuse.com/ Isotope Flickity Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

It’s the 300th episode of Syntax! To celebrate, Scott and Wes do a special live call-in episode with Syntax listeners. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Netlify - Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. Show Notes 03:30 - How is this going to work? Ask a Potluck Question Do a Sick Pick Take on a Stump’d Question Do a Shameless Plug 04:45 - Brad https://bradgarropy.com/ Sick Pick: Rogue Fitness Weighted Vests Shameless Plug: Murphy 11:54 - Brittany Shameless Plug: ZTM Academy Andrei Neagoie 16:43 - Jesse Stump’d Question: What are portals in React? Shameless Plug: codeSTACKr YouTube Channel Shameless Plug: VS Code Hero Course - Use coupon code “Syntax” for discount 23:44 - Henri Shameless Plug: https://twitter.com/HenriHelvetica Shameless Plug: JamstackTORONTO 31:27 - Jason Stump’d Question: What does “use strict” do and what are the benefits? 36:48 - Spence mdx-embed https://github.com/PaulieScanlon/mdx-embed 41:33 - James Potluck Question: How do you keep people engaged in a workshop? Stump’d Question: What is the difference between the postfix i++ and the prefix ++i increment operators? Shameless Plug: YouTube for Developers Shameless Plug: James Q Quick YouTube Channel 54:24 - Austin Potluck Question: Problems with ESLint, Prettier and VS Code playing nicely together Shameless Plug: https://erickka.art/ 66:21 - Dave Sick Pick: mmhmm Stump’d Question: What is the difference between the + and ~ sibling selectors in CSS? 78:56 - Gareth Potluck Question: What do you think about the future of mobile development vs traditional mobile app development? Sick Pick: https://darkreader.org/ Shameless Plug: Level Up Tutorials Discord 89:51 - Ackzell and Lewis Ackzell: Sick Pick: JSConf Mexico Shameless Plug: Ackzell YouTube Channel Lewis: Potluck Question: What is your daily routine like, and you do you decide to prioritize projects? Links What Syntax 300 live on Twitch Discord Mux React HLS Player https://30secondsofinterviews.org/ https://dev.to/bdesigned/vscode-setup-with-eslint-and-prettier-1gek https://madewithsvelte.com/mdsvex OBS Streamlabs ESLint Prettier Missive Shameless Plugs Scott: Level Up Pro - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the state of bundlers in 2020 — Rome, Snowpack, Parcel, Webpack, Rollup, Vite, and more! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 02:39 - What is a bundler? On the one hand, you can write HTML, CSS and JavaScript and open it in the browser On the other hand, your build could be super complex 03:24 - What goes into configuring a bundler? Templating language you use (Jsx, Pug, Vue, etc.) JavaScript you write and compile to: ES6/7/8/9 Typescript CoffeeScript Polyfills Environmental variables CSS loading Image compression Asset Chunking Tree shaking 05:12 - Webpack Hardest to learn, most used currently 07:38 - Rollup Scott’s pick as best option for most features vs ease of use Very powerful Mmmr, tree shaking, plugins, esm 09:52 - Parcel Scott’s simplicity winner pick Easiest to get started with It’s a bundler, but also a dev tool Hot reload Local server Config is done via your package.json Lots of plugins available 12:01 - Npm, Yarn and Yarn 2 It’s a dependency installer rather than a bundler 13:27 - Snowpack Scott’s speed pick of the week Uses ESM by default Like Sonic after a triple shot of espresso HRM Perfect for dev builds, as well as production builds 15:51 - Isobuild / Meteor Scott’s underdog pick of the litter 16:48 - Rome Scott’s mystery pick of the week New tool to do it all Bundler, but also a linter 17:54 - Deno Linter Typescript formatter Bundler (bundle into a single .js file) 20:44 - Let your tool take care of it Gatsby (webpack) Next.js (webpack) Gridsome Create React App Vite (Rollup) Broccoli.js Links Babel Gulp Syntax 212: Pika Pkg Fred Schott Pika Rust Go Software Engineering Daily: Deno and TypeScript with Elio Rivero Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Josh Comeau about coding with your voice, accessibility, bootcamps, animation, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Guests Josh Comeau Show Notes 01:48 - What is your background? 04:33 - Coding with your voice 08:32 - How do you code for a living if you can only do it for a few minutes a day? 21:56 - How has it impacted your productivity? 22:46 - Is it easier with a typed language like Typescript? 26:05 - What about accessibility? 27:14 - How good is the eye tracker? 29:30 - What got you into animation? 35:29 - Favorite app for animations? 40:12 - Being a teacher 41:44 - Is it worth going to a bootcamp? 44:57 - Interactivity in teaching Links joshwcomeau.com @concordia_btcmp @gatsbyjs @khanacademy @unsplash Talon Using Python to Code by Voice Neuralink Tobii 5 Moleskine Apps VLC VSCode freeCodeCamp Syntax 246: Bootcamps, Getting a Job, and Income Share Agreements with Heather Payne https://joshwcomeau.com/css/full-bleed/ Nintendo Switch Navigator.vibrate Voice Driven Development ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Josh: The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant Scott: The Neighborhood Listen Wes: Every Tool’s a Hammer by Adam Savage Shameless Plugs Josh: CSS for Javascript Developers | An online course that teaches the fundamentals of CSS for React/Vue devs Scott: Animating Svelte - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about web dev certifications — are they worth it, or a waste of time? Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 02:12 - Certifications 05:30 - We have standards, and people move faster than standards. jQuery moved faster than vanilla JS Typescript is sometimes preferred over regular JS We have universities that offer web developer certs and many of them are a joke The point is that programming is the wild west — it’s far too broad and moves far too fast for us to try and fit it in a box 10:28 - Do certifications mean anything? 14:30 - How do you know if you have enough skills (when you’re job hunting)? 19:04 - Some jobs do require a certification AWS Google Links https://openjsf.org/certification/ https://www.sentiatechblog.com/imposter-syndrome-how-to-display-front-end https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1318192217824124928 https://twitter.com/photonstorm/status/1318193404312944641 https://twitter.com/Ky1e_S/status/1318193954085634048 https://twitter.com/ArleyM/status/1318194323821912067 https://twitter.com/ajitbohra/status/1318194600335470592 Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes are back for another episode of spooky web dev stories — listener-submitted stories about web dev gone wrong. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Netlify - Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. Show Notes 03:28 - Jack Rhysider Story 06:28 - Dirty Dicks JSON 08:23 - CMS Disaster 10:58 - Oh No Hotel 11:19 - FTP 12:19 - Push Notification Hell 13:16 - DVD Nightmare 15:15 - Bad Words Again 16:23 - Mo Money 17:01 - Bass Ackwards 18:17 - Taxi Coding 19:36 - Bad Env 21:30 - Login As 21:50 - Email Subscribers Plugin 22:33 - 1 in 300 Chance of the C-Word 24:24 - Production Target 26:12 - A Happy SEO Ending 28:26 - Just Oof 29:48 - I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up 30:54 - Crypto 32:34 - rm -rf 33:42 - Never Deploy on Fridays 35:31 - Million Dollar Scramble 36:22 - Deleting Production 37:11 - 500,000 Concurrent Problems 39:14 - Deleting a Government Website 40:36 - You Ruined the Surprise! 45:23 - Mr. D Hole 46:48 - One Expensive Race Condition 48:43 - Yikes 51:11 - Always Be Closing 51:44 - Adidas - All Day I Delete A Site Links @JackRhysider Darknet Diaries Podcast ExpressionEngine #ghosts chefkoch.de Sendgrid Magento Evite ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Fastify Wes: 🇨🇦 Mr Chefer Meat Thermometer 🇺🇸 Mr Chefer Meat Thermometer Shameless Plugs Scott: Level Up Pro - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Temporal Date Objects in JavaScript — a WICKED AWESOME API for working with times and dates. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 05:11 - Temporal Now You can get now Temporal.now.___ 07:58 - Temporal Instants A Temporal.Instant represents a fixed point in time, without regard to calendar or location. Most common way to show it is nanoseconds since unix epoch. Can be formatted a few different ways. 09:59 - Calendar Support for different types of calendars 11:43 - Durations Temporal.Duration There are .from and .add and subtract() methods 12:47 - Other interesting parts Timezones Temporal.ZonedDateTime Temporal.YearMonth - represents a ym = new Temporal.YearMonth(2019, 6) // => 2019-06 14:51 - Polyfill (unstable) Links Fixing JavaScrip Date - Maggie Pint https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/blob/main/docs/calendar.md#methods https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/blob/main/docs/duration.md Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about spooky web dev stories — listener-submitted stories about web dev gone wrong. Netlify - Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 03:12 - The Most Expensive Boolean Ever 06:19 - An Actual Logging Issue 09:37 - Snitches Get Stitches 10:41 - The Spooky Office Skeleton 12:04 - Prevent the Default of Making Money 13:52 - Computer Magic Trick 14:42 - Update Score 15:59 - Change Reaction 19:30 - Personal Mongodb 20:26 - Hello Rob! 22:08 - SSN Regex 23:06 - WordPress Plugins 23:52 - Loggin Ya In, Ya F’in Dummy 24:58 - A Hostel Coding Environment 25:59 - A Graceful Exit 27:27 - Favicon DDOS 28:07 - Common Cents 29:03 - Open Source Vendors 33:04 - Don’t Leave the Country 35:09 - Apostrophe Catastrophe 35:43 - Env 36:05 - A Christmas Miracle 36:43 - The One Million Dollar Bill 39:00 - The Hacker Who Dropped the DB 40:19 - The Tech Lead Who Uses Alert Statements 46:14 - Lorem Ipsum 46:58 - Malicious Compliance Links Indigo.ca r/MaliciousCompliance ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Hades Game Wes: LED Flame Bulb Smaller LED Flame Bulbs Shameless Plugs Scott: Animating Svelte - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about stretching for developers — techniques, misconceptions, and how to feel better. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 03:21 - Devs do the following Head forward looking at screen Shoulders forward Sitting a lot Weak core Carpel tunnel from typing 06:02 - Stretching misconceptions Static holds Dynamic controlled movements first and foremost 07:52 - Stretches to help Dynamic twists Cat / Cow Flat down / Curl up spine Arm hang to decompress spine Wrist stretches and strengthening for carpel tunnel Horse stance at standing desk to be office weird person Shoulder circles Doorway stretches Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about how to make freelancing easier — how to avoid burnout, and tips and tricks to make it successful. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Netlify - Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. Show Notes 02:15 - Code Use starters and resets and component libraries Don’t build in something you don’t know, unless you have time and budget to do so — WP is good enough for most projects Feel free to go over time on projects if you are learning something new Re-use code from project to project Target similar types of clients 13:09 - Communication Often, clear and frequent People won’t be mad for being too informed — just know when to leave out the technical jargon Clients typically don’t care about Git, React, etc. — they care about results Don’t overwhelm them Train your clients that you aren’t available 24/7 22:19 - Time management Set calendar alerts early and often to not miss communications Set meetings at 9am, don’t wait around all day for meetings Block off large amounts of time for dev — you won’t be able to get meaningful work done in one-hour slots 27:54 - Contracts + quoting Have a boilerplate contract that you can just fill in Same for a quote Value-based billing 33:47 - Billing + taxes Don’t be shy when talking about money. Be clear on what you need, when you need it, and on what terms. This is business. This is your art, but it’s also your business Pay quarterly taxes - most likely Or don’t and take the small hit — then you can pay once a year Put taxes into another account if you aren’t good with money Get a billing management system or get an accountant — you need to focus on working on code Wave Apps, Xero, Freshbooks 42:03 - Marketing Be loud — people need to know what you offer The best marketing is a referral from a previous client If you show up, return emails and do a good job, you’ll kill it Show people what you are excited about: blog posts, videos, tweets, etc. Go where your clients are: Do you want to be serving small businesses? Family and friends Do you want to be a hired gun for a technical team? Conferences/Twitter, blog posts 48:25 - Final thoughts Scott — It’s ok if freelancing isn’t for you. Not everyone is great at all of these factors, myself included. However, with practice, you can be your own boss, work on your own terms, and make money. Also, don’t be afraid to take on longer contracts with established teams and companies. Wes — Freelancing can be a great filler between jobs or career transitions. Links Syntax 117: Hasty Treat - How To Email Busy People Freshbooks - Breaking the Time Barrier Design Is a Job - Mike Monteiro Wave Xero Freshbooks ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Displaced Gamers YouTube Channel Wes: Battery Adapter for DeWALT 20V Max 18v Dock Power Connector Shameless Plugs Scott: React For Everyone - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about updating web apps that have running for a long time — the problems to look out for and how to avoid them. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 01:54 - The problem This only affects the client-side 05:28 - What are some solutions: Do nothing and hope the user refreshes. Have a list of assets, or commit hashes. Poll the server periodically, and when there is a new version available: Prompt the user to refresh Just refresh the user (store current state in localstorage and restore) Do a custom component, that checks the last time the user has refreshed (or if new version if available). When they click the link, render a regular instead of a pushstate link. Use a service worker. They will emit an event when a new version is available. Use the above methods to refresh the user. Hot code push. Vuepress has “hot reloading” baked in. Links https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1306969658751361024 Notion Vuepress Meteor Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

It’s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about getting your first web dev job, what makes a software engineer senior, handing off projects to clients, Angular vs React, the best social platforms for devs, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 01:58 - You’ve talked a couple times in the past about the security concerns around target="_blank". You mentioned how adding rel="noopener" and / or rel="noreferrer" can secure this functionality, but what’s to stop a savvy person from going into the dev tools and deleting these attributes before clicking a link? Does this defeat the entire purpose or what? Surely browsers have thought of this and it’s not so easy to hack? 03:48 - Why did you not mention Stencil when talking about web-component in the last Potluck? Can I presume you have not heard of it? It is quite successful and Ionic proves it. We’ve been using it for two years in production. This is the only library that thought web-components through to the end. If you know it, what do you think about it and would you use it? Example of a stencil component: import { Component, Prop, h } from '@stencil/core'; @Component({ tag: 'my-first-component', }) export class MyComponent { // Indicate that name should be a public property on the component @Prop() name: string; render() { return ( My name is {this.name} ); } } 06:12 - Is https://www.syntax.fm supposed to not work? I get a 404. 07:34 - I’m wondering what advice you’d have for someone self-taught switching from a totally non-tech industry (non profit arts, in my case) where I work in a tech role. I’ve hustled and built a portfolio of projects and learned a ton from both of your courses, but I feel that my experience is seen as less valuable because I don’t work in a traditional software/web development environment. Any tips for getting over the final hurdle of getting a dev job? 11:11 - What makes a software engineer senior? 13:08 - I have a Gatsby / Netlify client project about to launch. What’s the best approach in handing over to the (non technical) client? Do I keep in my Github account and just give the client the Netlify CMS login, or create the a Github account for the client that I can access for any maintenance? What do other devs do? 17:55 - I recently blocked all cookies on my mobile browser (Google Chrome), and I noticed something weird. A couple of sites that I know for a fact to have been built using NextJS weren’t working as expected (surprise surprise). They would load as usual, and after a second or so, all the content on the page disappeared, with the error message “sorry: an unexpected error has occurred”. In some cases, the error was printed in the site’s font, and with the same background color on the body. Why does blocking cookies do this to NextJS sites? 21:21 - How often do you make commits? I always hear, “commit often”, but I am hesitant because I feel like I may change my code later on before I make a pull request? I really liked your episode on Git Fundamentals, I would love to see a tutorial/deep dive into Git workflows and practices (when to commit / how often) Should I commit even though I know what I’m working on isn’t complete or I need to refactor it?? What is code review etiquette? 26:59 - Wes, how do you handle captioning and transcripts on your courses? Do you use some tool or service for that or do you do it by hand? 31:11 - I am a recent graduate of a code school that focused on React and Rails. The company that I currently work for uses Angular for part of their stack. I eventually would like to move into a dev spot, but I am finding that Angular feels a bit stuffy and I am not as excited about it as React, Svelte, Vue, etc. I am afraid that if I dive into Angular, I will become less relevant down the road. I want to learn everything, but I only have so much time and don’t want to stunt my growth as a developer. Any thoughts or advice on this would be sick! 36:38 - How do you handle SVGs in React? I know that SVGR exists, but I’d like to avoid adding another dependency if it’s something I can roll on my own. In the past, I’ve created functions that take parameters like fill or stroke to control color, and return a string of SVG code with the arguments interpolated in. Then I place that string into a component using dangerous

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about enums in JS — what they are, what they do, and how they work in JavaScript. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 03:11 - What are enums? A type restricting variables to one value from a predefined set of constants Direction = UP / DOWN / LEFT / RIGHT Role = ADMIN EDITOR AUTHOR VIEWER Day of the Week 05:12 - In GraphQL enum Role { ADMIN EDITOR AUTHOR VIEWER} Then 07:05 - In TypeScript First, declare the type: enum direction = { UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT } Then when you defined your function, use that type type User { role: Role } or type User { role: [Role] } 08:49 - In JavaScript Not in JS yet There is a proposal in stage 1 https://github.com/rbuckton/proposal-enum And a babel plugin: https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-const-enum Can use case/switch Can use Object or Map keys Links Syntax 287: Hasty Treat - Records and Tuples in JavaScript Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes are back with part 2 of Tales from Web Dev Past — this time looking at iFrames, layout trends, icon fonts, web rings, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Show Notes 03:00 - iFrames Sidebar menu target 05:42 - JavaScript image hovers Dreamweaver Photoshop Slice and Select Tool 08:24 - CSS Pie 09:42 - Animated gifs of people and construction http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/ 11:20 - CSS Zoom 1 / IE CSS Hacks Forced IE 7 to redraw floats 13:42 - Layout trends 800x600 fixed websites 960gs Golden Grid 12-col grid creators 16:26 - Sprite maps Spritecow ☠️ Killed icon fonts ☠️ Killed by SVG icons 18:40 - Firebug and Firebug Lite Lite was a bookmarklet 20:14 - Image maps / Background gradients 1px wide and 2000px tall image to make repeating gradients Squidfingers Subtle Patterns Hero Patterns CSS3 Patterns 25:53 - Web rings 27:41 - Glossy buttons 28:09 - Flaming text FlamingText.com 30:01 - Marquee tags Staggered Speed attribute 31:26 - Spacer gifs 34:30 - AngelFire / GeoCities 36:11 - Xanga / LiveJournal 37:29 - Above the fold content Abovethefold.fyi 39:36 - Homestar Runner Links Drupal Omega theme Syntax 032: Designing, Templating, Inlining and Sending Email Mailchimp Litmus Email on Acid Herman Miller Aeron ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: New Rustacean Podcast Wes: Autonomous Ergo Chair Shameless Plugs Scott: Advanced Animating React with Framer Motion - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about records and tuples in javascript — what they are, why you might want to use them, and more! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes ??? - 02:42 - Immutability 05:08 - Records Immutable object Syntax #{x: 1, y: 2} 05:56 - Tuples Immutable array Syntax #[1,2,3,4] 07:18 - For both Referred to as a compound primitive Can contain only primitives, not objects They are compared deeply by their contents rather than their identity assert(#{ a: 1 } === #{ a: 1 }); assert(#[1, 2] === #[1, 2]); assert(#{ a: 1, b: 2 } === #{ b: 2, a: 1 }); Potential for optimizations Optimizations for making deep equality checks fast Optimizations for manipulating data structures Works well with type systems Better integration with the debugger Accessed through normal record.scott object like syntax 13:39 - Stage 2 Links https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about Git fundamentals — what it is, why you need it, best practices, and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 03:12 - What is Git? 04:16 - Why do you need it? 06:31 - UI vs command line 09:03 - Commands 101 https://git-scm.com/ init .gitignore file is key right off the bat add add -p - quick review of all the changes you’ve made commit Multiple adds and commits Commit messages should be descriptive push What are origins? pull clone checkout merge fetch stash fork Merge vs pull request Git vs GitHub / Alternatives Bitbucket GitLab 44:25 - Common issues Merge conflicts Files being tracked unintentionally “How do I delete file from GitHub?” git rm -r alias gri="git ls-files --ignored --exclude-standard | xargs -0 git rm -r" Databases in Git? 49:10 - Git clients https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis CLI “Hub” Github CLI GitHub desktop app VS Code integration Source tree Kraken Tower Links VS Code GitLens GitHub Bitbucket GitLab Drupal GitKraken Tower ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: What Had Happened Was Podcast Wes: Yeti Products Shameless Plugs Scott: React For Everybody - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about their first steps in the word of entrepreneurship and web dev specifically. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes Wes: First money: check for $300 First website: Pool company First ad sense income: Craigonomics First YouTube: import large SQL database with bigdump First online Product: Sublime Text - Ryan Christiani First in-person teaching: HackerYou First project at agency: Jet Cooper Scott: First dev gig: parents tea store First design gig: Perpetual First YouTube video: Adobe Premier 101 First BIG YouTube video: Sass Tutorials First ad sense income: scotttolinski.com blog post about music promotion sites First online product: Sass Mastery First project at agency: Nu Step Links https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1276500155789910016 Audiojungle Themeforest Juno College @steveschoger Smashing Mag Css Tricks Packt Publishing Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about writing good CSS. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Netlify - Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. Show Notes 02:11 - Frameworks Utility: Tailwind, Taycons, Bulma Frameworks: Foundation, Bootstrap Classless base starters: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css HTML5 UP / A template 13:37 - Preprocessors Sass Stylus Less Regular CSS Variables Color functions - not yet 19:42 - Tools PostCSS is like Babel for CSS. Some good plugins: https://github.com/postcss/postcss#plugins CSS min/max for clamp Autoprefixer Autoreset - reset a component Gap instead of grid-gap Simple-vars Postcss-modules SugarSS Preset env 34:19 - Stylint Stylint More than just a basic linter Capable of complex rules in your CI process - i.e. if you are using a color, make sure it’s a CSS variable 36:37 - Removing unwanted CSS PurgeCSS - Tailwind uses this PurifyCSS 41:17 - Writing maintainable CSS / scoping solutions Component-based CSS Modules Naming Convention Based BEM SMACSS CSS Variables Powerful when utilized with things like calc() to avoid out of sync values Know which browsers you need to support Links Syntax 197: Hasty Treat - Tips For Writing Good CSS Compass Susy Grunt Gulp Linaria Astroturf Houdini Svelte Syntax Highlight Dhanish Gajjar - https://www.instagram.com/dhanishgajjar/ ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Rustlings Wes: Class Action Park Documentary Shameless Plugs Scott: Advanced Animating React with Framer Motion - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about time block planning — what it is and how it can help you increase your productivity! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 01:50 - What is time block planning 03:12 - How TBP has helped Scott stay focused 04:46 - How it helps family life 05:57 - How to plan your week 11:00 - How to deal with setbacks Links Cal Newport Todoist Deep Work Deep Questions Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about tales from web dev past — clearfix, floats, flash, cufon, guestbooks, hit counters, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 04:28 - Float-based layouts Clearfix ☠️ Killed by Flexbox, and then Grid 09:29 - Loading Screens: Two websites - one flash and one HTML Splash screen 11:22 - Hit counters 12:28 - Guestbooks 13:28 - Flash 3rd party player Media dragged its feet FOREVER ☠️ Killed by Steve Jobs 18:46 - Fonts The Golden Layout Cufon / sIFR / Images of text Typekit ☠️ Killed by font-face 24:15 - Folder-based version control ☠️ Killed by Git 26:22 - FTP ☠️ Killed by Git, then many other things 28:40 - CSS Zen Garden CSS Zen Garden ☠️ Killed by CSS being better 32:02 - TextMate Coda Notepad++ Adobe GoLive FrontPage Macromedia / Dreamweaver ☠️ Killed by Sublime Text, then VSCode 33:58 - Sliding doors A technique for rounded corners on buttons ☠️ Killed by CSS 35:29 - PNG Fix ☠️ Killed by the death of IE6 37:53 - 9-Panel layouts ☠️ Killed by CSS 39:20 - CSS 3 Please CSS 3 Please Paul Irish ☠️ Killed by modern CSS Links Silverlight Chris Coyier ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Fancierstudio 600 LED Light Panel Kit Wes: Allen Key Drill Bit Set Shameless Plugs Scott: React 3D and Advanced Animating React with Framer Motion - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby Course - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about home offices, backyard offices, costs, and pros and cons! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 03:40 - Structure options: Existing sheds Build your own likely not allowed Drop-in offices Rubbermaid shed 07:18 - Electrical 07:58 - Insulation 09:01 - Heating 11:30 - Cooling 16:01 - Interior 16:42 - WiFi 17:12 - Costs ~ $4k Electrical - $2k Flooring - $600 Paneling- $900 AC - $1000 Fan - $100 Links https://twitter.com/bradwestfall/status/1284299864210210817 https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/brad-frost-web-headquarters/ Technology Connections - Space Heater Nonsense Technology Connections - Personal “air conditioners” aren’t what they seem Technology Connections - Cassette adapters are remarkably simple Caldigit Ubiquity Outdoor Access Point Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

It’s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about the recent Mozilla layoffs, Safari, finding time to learn coding, Google Analytics alternatives, malicious Github users, and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 01:15 - What are your guy’s thoughts on Mozzila’s layoffs and how it will affect developers? 08:42 - Right now I am a math teacher. I am married with 2 kids (3 and 1) so finding time to code is difficult. My current situation includes waking up at 4:30 am everyday just to get in some time before the kids wake up. Do either of you have any tips about finding a balance between raising kids, getting stuff done around the house, having a full time job and trying to teach yourself web development to transition into a different career? 13:23 - If you had to use a drag-n-drop framework using React, which one would you choose? 15:49 - E2E vs Visual Regression Testing? At which web-app development cycle to implement each? Best tools open source vs purchase? 20:36 - I teach a Highschool course in web development. For a group of students who have a solid knowledge of HTML/CSS and a decent understanding of JavaScript, would Svelte be a good framework for entering into component-based development for the first time? 22:33 - What’s a good Google Analytics alternative in 2020? I have a site on Netlify that the $9/mo seems a bit steep for, for what the site is, and flipping the domain through Cloudflare just for the analytics seems crazy; but is it worth it? Alternatives would be awesome, as I’d love to get off the Google overlords. 29:22 - I have noticed about a dozen to 100 unique clones of my git repos after each push. It doesn’t matter if the repo is initialized, picture added or the readme updated. The repos are still cloned. The traffic section shows the views to my repo at 1 sometimes 2. Is this normal? Is this how interested employers keep tabs on you? Are there a lot of malicious git users? What is happening? 32:30 - With Apple switching to their own processors is it silly for anyone to buy a Mac for development before that releases? Do you guys have experience with Windows, and which would you still prefer today if you needed to buy? 40:28 - Have you ever been approached by or heard of GitAds.io? They’re trying to pay developers to put ads onto popular open source libraries on Github, and they approached me recently, and I wasn’t sure what to think about them. What do you think? 45:16 - I just listened to your TLD game. It made me wonder your opinions on personal site domain names? Should it always try to be yourname.dev? What about .me or other domains? 47:53 - What’s the best way to introduce new technology or processes to a team? Links Rust Firefox MDN Jen Simmons Safari React DnD React Beautiful DnD React Spring Framer Motion Cypress Percy.io Svelte Heap Fathom GitAds.io .TECH Syntax 179: Hasty Treat - The TLD Game Javascript30 Syntax 206: Hasty Treat - The New MacBook Pro for Web Development ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Turbo Boost Switcher for Mac OS X Wes: Roller Blade Wheels for your chair Shameless Plugs Scott: React 3D - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes wrap up season one of the podcast and talk about what’s coming. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 01:32 - Plans for the Fall 06:59 - Fav Hasty Scott Ep 161: Hasty Treat - VSCode Extensions & Themes Ep 165: Hasty Treat - VSCode Treats Part 2 Ep 167: Hasty Treat - VSCode Love Part 3 Ep 277: Hasty Treat - 5 Things That Make Your Site Slow Wes Ep 211: Hasty Treat - Modules in Node 08:55 - Fav Tasty Scott Ep 236: Mental Health and Dev ft Dr. Courtney Tolinski - Depression, Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome, Focus, Motivation, Burnout Ep 250: Scott Teaches Wes Svelte and Sapper Wes Ep 224: Serverless / Cloud Functions - Part 1 Ep 256: WebRTC and Peer-to-Peer Video Calling with Ian Ramzy 10:22 - Top Episodes of 2020 10: Ep 214: 2020 Fitness 09: Ep 228: More on Severless - Databases × Files × Secrets × Auth × More! 08: Ep 220: The Synology Show - Backups and Home Server 07: Ep 222: Are Web Dev GUIs Going to Replace Us? 06: Ep 210: Potluck - Fonts × Frameworks × Teas × Coding Subscriptions × Client Work × More! 05: Ep 212: Pika Pkg 04: Ep 224: Serverless / Cloud Functions Part 1 03: Ep 218: Potluck - Dev Culture Fit × Slack Communities × Vanilla JS × Backpacks × Raspberry Pi × More! 02: Ep 226: Potluck - Next vs Gatsby × Headless CMS × Vue.js × Is Ruby on Rails still good? × More! 01: Ep 216: Tech to Watch in 2020 Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

It’s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about MDX, portfolio projects for junior devs, code commenting, CSS property order, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Netlify - Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. Show Notes 02:18 - I’m curious to know what you guys think of MDX. I’d love to learn more about pros and cons, if you guys had a chance to use it. 08:49 - Where would you put business logic in Vue.js middle- or large-scale applications? I try to put business logic in store but it makes hard to maintain such store, even with splitting to actions/getters/mutations files. I ended up using vanilla JavaScript files, where each file is a class singleton. I was wondering: is it a good solution or do you have better alternatives in mind? 12:07 - I commonly find myself engineering complex programs and left flabbergasted on how to express these ideas to other people when the need arises that I need to explain them and remember why I did them a certain way. How can I get better at conceptualizing intricate design patterns or functions as well as have better memory recall for these abstractions? 18:02 - Can I get recommendations for a junior dev portfolio? What five projects you would recommend to build that will significantly help in getting a job as a front-end web dev and why? 21:13 - I am now working on building a minesweeper game with React. You know how on a computer you right click to flag and disable a cell? I am thinking of doing a press and hold on a mobile device instead. I am not sure how to do either (the right click logic or the press and hold). How can you listen for these events in React? Can you help with some guidance or resources? :) 30:00 - What are your thoughts on SailsJS as a Rails-equivalent framework in Javascript? They recently released version 1.0 and I’m wondering if I should start using it in projects or if I should wait to see if it pans out. 34:35 - How do you go about creating reusable React components (reusable from project to project)? Do you create packages and publish them to NPM? Or do you have another method for storing code for components that you will likely need to use again? 38:33 - Thoughts on shadow dom / custom elements? Would you use them in your own projects? 40:49 - How do you organize CSS properties within a rule and why? Random, alphabetical, logical groupings, etc. 46:04 - Have u ever used the 2nd parameter of JSON.stringify for anything useful? 48:00 - Getting my first dev job at an actual software company a year ago opened my eyes to the vast difference between educational repos and the absolute jungle that can be enterprise code bases. I’ve also learned the importance of writing code that will be readable later - ensuring any hacky workaround is replaced with a pattern seen elsewhere in the code base, etc. My question is - are there resources on these sorts of topics for folks trying to break into the industry? A lot of tech topics revolve around how to get your code to run, which feels to me like only half the battle. Where can juniors find resources on robustness? Links https://github.com/jxnblk/mdx-deck https://mdsvex.com/ Spectacle MDsveX Vue.js Redux VueX Better Comments Kap Redwood.js Blitz.js GraphQL https://github.com/ryanmcdermott/clean-code-javascript ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Easy Snippet Wes: WOW Pool Noodles Shameless Plugs Scott: All Courses - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes are back with another edition of Stump’d! where they try to stump each other with interview questions. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 03:28 - What is the difference between HTML and React event handling? 05:55 - What are JavaScript data types? 07:00 - In which states can a Promise be? 07:48 - Discuss the differences between an HTML specification and a browser’s implementation thereof. 09:14 - What is a stateless component? 10:10 - What is a pure function? 10:51 - What is the output of the following code? const a = [1, 2, 3] const b = [1, 2, 3] const c = "1,2,3" console.log(a == c) console.log(a == b) 13:35 - What is memoization? 15:15 - How do you pass an argument to an event handler in React? 15:59 - What is HTML5 Web Storage? Explain localStorage and sessionStorage. Links 30 Seconds of Interviews Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

It’s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about React subscriptions, ES Modules in Node, how to cook a chicken thigh, being a good dad and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Stackbit - Sponsor Stackbit offers developers tools that enable things like inline content editing, live previewing of content changes, and collaboration features on your Jamstack site, without code changes. That’s why Stackbit is the best way to Jamstack. stackbit.com. Show Notes 02:11 - What are “subscriptions” in React, or in programming in general? The React docs mention that setting up a subscription is an example of a side effect, but what exactly is a subscription, and how do you set one up? 05:43 - Using the latest node esm imports, is it possible to use aliases? Using the old require() syntax I used the npm package module-alias (https://www.npmjs.com/package/module-alias), but I cannot seem to find a solution for node v14 imports. In a deeply nested file, I find the import ‘…/…/…/some/folder’ syntax to be awful compared to require(’@/some/folder’). 09:20 - I’ve been a full-time developer for over 10 years and my company has a fairly flat hierarchy. I want to take on more responsibility (and salary) but my company doesn’t have anything like a “lead developer” position. Any ideas for how to move up without switching companies? I know my boss would be receptive if I came to him with a pitch, but we work full stack so it feels like I’m already doing it all. 12:59 - In Wes’ website episode, he mentioned using Gatsby Parallels for images. Why not git LFS? 17:25 - For Wes: Any Big Green Egg tips for beginners? I just ordered a kamado style grill and I’d appreciate any tasty tips you’ve got. 22:45 - Inline code is considered harmful because of potential XSS attacks. Lighthouse recommends inlining critical CSS to improve page speed. What do you think about this tradeoff? 26:30 - What advice would both of you have for being a first-time father, and how can I best prepare? My wife is pregnant, and we are both very excited! I want to do the best I can at being a good father. Our baby is due in January. As both of you are fathers (multiple times), I would love to hear your thoughts. 32:58 - Are present web developers merely crud bastards for corporate culture? If not, What entrepreneurial opportunities are open with Javascript and hooking up React with backend Node/Laravel and reading the Google Map docs? Of course the list isn’t exhaustive but you get my point right? Note: I’m not interested in selling courses and creating frameworks. 37:08 - Do you have any use for ES6 Generators and yield? It seems that they are a mechanism for async-await “under the hood,” so using ‘async-await’ is probably sufficient. 39:10 - With a legacy project that has old build dependencies how do you decide when to retool and fix all the npm audit issues? 46:10 - In what instances do you prefer to use rem vs em vs pixels for font size? I usually think about it like so: if I’m okay with an element’s font size being sized based on the parent, then I’ll use em. If not, then I’ll use rem. I almost never use pixels anymore except sometimes on the html element. But even then, I usually use a percentage. In practice, I’ve found it a bit hard to gauge what to expect with ems because of nesting issues. So, I’ve mostly been leaning towards rem. Though I also understand that using rems can be less modular. How do you guys make the decision? 52:49 - Hello chaps. Thank you so much for the show, I’ve learned an awful lot through listening. I’ve been dabbling in development for some time now and have taken on a project for an Express site which aside from a few static pages will include a shop with a small number of items (

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about tips and tricks for using Gatsby in your projects LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 02:02 - React Helmet Make a re-usable SEO component that sets defaults. Spread children to override. 04:27 - When in doubt, stop the build and restart Gatsby clean Nuke node_modules + package-lock 05:34 - Use ESM to use ES Modules everywhere - share functions between gatsby-node and gatsby-browser 06:44 - Run the build command locally to troubleshoot prod Dev mode isn’t SSG’d - people overlook this 08:06 - Wrap your layout automatically in gatsby-ssr and gatbsy-browser wrapPageElement and wrapRootElement 09:50 - Consider just adding the layout component manually to each page This will allow you to skip the layout if you need to have a page that isn’t typical 11:21 - Layout is not suitable for unmount animations Orchestrating individual component animations in Gatsby isn’t easy, use wrapPageElement to write your animations or delays for internally unmounted components. 12:59 - use onCreatePage to pass context to the layout exports.onCreatePage = ({ page, actions }) => { const { createPage } = actions; if (page.path.match(/thumbnail/)) { page.context.layout = 'thumbnail'; createPage(page); } }; 14:03 - You don’t have to query for everything Hard-coding data in html/jsx is super valid 15:32 - Gatsby Parallel Runner For lots of images Links Gridsom Google Cloud Cloudinary Sanity Image Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Adam Argyle about how stuff gets added to CSS. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Guests Adam Argyle Show Notes 01:48 - Who are you and what do you do? 04:13 - How does stuff get added to CSS? 06:44 - Github issue proposal or public document Shares use case Problem made succinct StrawMan solution JS demo 10:12 - Time Multiple proposals Comments Back and forth Bikeshedding 20:00 - Editor’s draft spec (Stage 1) CSS typed Examples Provided code logic Implementor interest Can go stale Explainer Implementor Prototype behind flags in browser Intent to Prototype (I2P) 24:42 - Working Draft (Stage 2) WPTs Prototype behind flags in browser Needs two or more to graduate Intent to Ship (I2S) 24:54 - Conference Calls Around 10 items to discuss Issues or proposals Flexible list Things can be injected as emergency Things can get punted to the next call 25:26 - Face 2 Face (F2F) Four times a year Presentations Breakout sessions Houdini focus groups, etc Try to resolve as many Github issues as possible 27:34 - Candidate Recommendation (Stage 3) Could still be behind a flag Edge cases are being worked through WPTs and standards are being nudged into a final state 44:20 - Roles Spec author Community Member Print Color Internationalization Box Model AOM JS APIs Renderers etc Implementor It’s like pub/sub, where spec authors pub and implementors sub, and the community tries to help shape the message that’s published while supporting the subscribers who need to implement and make it real 46:32 - Questions What language is CSS written in? What's the deal with Houdini? Links https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts @rachelandrew @hj_chen Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS 10 Things I Regret About Node https://ishoudinireadyyet.com/ ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Adam Wok Scott: Balance Pad Wes: Security Bit Set Shameless Plugs Adam: The CSS Podcast Scott: CSS Design Systems - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about refining your processes, how to evaluate them, make them better, and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 04:18 - Find slow process Getting through email Cleaning my desk 06:29 - Set clear goals (smart goals) Is my inbox less crazy? Don’t spend too much time Do a 30-day challenge 09:46 - Ask around What are people you know using and why Time-blocking Batching Eat that frog Links Streaks Matt Cutts — Try something new for 30 days 1Writer Notable Dropbox Notion Obsidian Todoist Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about React State libraries, should you use them, pros, cons, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 01:24 - Context Have we used? Scott: Yes Wes: Yes Pros Built into React As simple or complex as you want Cons Takes effort to optimize Takes effort to plan and organize aka can get out of hand quickly 08:49 - Redux Have we used? Scott: Yes Wes: Yes Pros Huge user base Legacy of growth and improvements Modern API Even though it’s hard to learn, it has a clear “how to build with it” path Dev tools Cons Complex Thing that calls a thing that calls a thing that calls a thing Confusion around what additional packages are needed, e.g. ducks, saga, whatever 17:08 - XState Have we used? Scott: Yes Wes: No Pros Enforces solid design patterns Very safe Awesome tooling like UI to see state machines https://xstate.js.org/viz/ Cons Knowledge overhead - having to understand state machines Complex syntax 23:26 - Zustand Have we used? Scott: Yes Wes: No Pros Fast, scalable, easy to use Simpler No context providers Cons Smaller community 2.6k stars on Github Can inform components transiently (without causing render) 27:04 - Apollo Client Have we used? Scott: Yes Wes: Yes Pros Fits in well with your GraphQL API Dev tools Cons Complex, large syntax for simple operations Dev tools SSR story is really complex. It’s hard because they aren’t also the framework. 31:35 - RXJS Have we used? Scott: No Wes: No Observable based 33:02 - React Query Have we used? Scott: No Wes: Pros Fast growing community Awesome dev tools Cons Not sure if this can be used for application state or just data 35:37 - Recoil Have we used? Scott: Yes Wes: No Pros Very good for complex, splintered state needs Cons Overly complex for most use cases 38:34 - MobX Have we used? Scott: No Wes: No Pros Big community Not just React Powerful Observable capabilities Cons Uses decorators, but doesn’t have to? 43:15 - Easy Peasy Have we used? Scott: No Wes: No Pros Simple API (easy peasy) Redux dev tools supported 45:06 - Meteor ReactiveDict / ReactiveVar Have we used? Scott: Yes Wes: No Pros Very simple Get, set Is Reactive Cons Lock-in to Meteor 46:19 - Final Thoughts On State Wes: Go for simpler solutions Scott: I think application state should be separate from application data, but maybe that’s because there isn’t a solution that does both how I want Links Svelte Meteor Syntax 206: State Machines, CSS and Animations with David K Piano Syntax 268: Potluck - Beating Procrastination × Rollup vs Webpack × Leadership × Code Planning × Styled Components × More! Zustand CodeSandbox swr ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Becoming Bond Wes: IRWIN VISE-GRIP GrooveLock Pliers Set Shameless Plugs Scott: Modern CSS Design Systems - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about their experience upgrading Syntax.fm and some of the site’s big changes. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 02:26 - The old Syntax site Next.js Custom server for API - shows, Latest shows, sick picks On-demand page builds Custom routing 06:41 - The new Syntax site Next.js has solved those things now, no need for a custom server. API Routes On-demand page builds: SSG with Next.js. It’s a server, but caches the page builds. Releasing the shows happens with revalidation. It’s statically generated like Gatsby, but you can also choose Custom routing is now done with [pages] Very fast to load Very fast to build Very fast to deploy It’s now a “dynamic static site” Zeit Now 1 to “Vercel” Huge thanks to Tim Neutkens and Luis Alvarez from Vercel for making it happen. 13:23 - Why not: Gatsby Entire site would need to be regenerated exactly at 9am eastern API of the site would need to be done with something else like Netlify Functions - not nearly as nice as Next API routes Sapper Links Next.js Gatsby Sapper Vercel Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Filipe Névola about Meteor and the exciting things happening in the Meteor world! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Guests Filipe Névola @filipenevola Show Notes 01:20 - What is your background? 03:41 - What exactly is Meteor? 12:00 - What are the biggest misconceptions of modern meteor? 18:20 - What do you say to people who think Meteor is dead? 21:33 - How does data get from your Meteor into your React app? Example of getting data on client side import { useTracker } from 'meteor/react-meteor-data' // Hook, basic use, everything in one component const MyProtectedPage = (pageId) => { const { user, isLoggedIn, page } = useTracker(() => { // The publication must also be secure const subscription = Meteor.subscribe('page', pageId) const page = Pages.findOne({ _id: pageId }) const user = Meteor.user() const userId = Meteor.userId() const isLoggingIn = Meteor.loggingIn() return { page, isLoading: !subscription.ready(), user, userId, isLoggingIn, isLoggedIn: !!userId } }, [pageId]) if (!isLoggedIn) { return Create an Account Log in } return {page.title} {page.content} Log out ({user.username}) } 27:50 - What do you think is the ideal usecase for Meteor? 31:09 - Why did Meteor 1.0 fail to maintain hype? 36:41 - What does Meteor’s future look like? 45:27 - Are there any plans to integrate serverless into Meteor? 46:55 - Any little known features of Meteor that people might be interested in? Links Meteor Tiny Capital Deno Meteor Galaxy Mongoose Parcel Apollo MongoDB Svelte Meteor repo Meteor Up https://howtocreateanapp.dev/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8A0hHUaCBvuBs0eA5g_q3A Cordova Missive Meteor Forums ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Filipe: 1: Galaxy 2: Terere Scott: Amplifi Alien Router Wes: Parcel - Global Package Tracking Shameless Plugs Filipe: @filipenevola Scott: All Courses - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about noopener and noreferrer and why you should use them with links that have blank targets. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 03:35 - What’s the big deal? If you have a link that is target="_blank" you should add rel=“noopener” and rel=“noreferrer” Retail Me Not uses it Valid use cases: Same domain change the page from a popup Cross domain changing page data Example: https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/ 05:39 - Why doesn’t the browser just fix it? Safari did - You can use rel=“opener” to allow it Firefox did Chrome hasn’t yet https://twitter.com/HugoGiraudel/status/801475801397030912 10:48 - Does this hurt SEO? It breaks analytics of the recipient site, turning a referral visit from your site into direct traffic, unless the link has UTM or similar tracking parameters. If you have a site where passing traffic offsite is part of the business model, links need an affiliate id instead. Links @argyleink Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

It’s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about transitioning to backend dev, tips for beating procrastination, Rollup vs Webpack, code planning, growing as a leader and more! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 02:33 - I am a junior dev, coming up on two years at my current agency. I have been primarily on the frontend using Angular and templating with Handlebars and other HTML and CSS. I have been asked if I would be interested in moving more into backend, with a focus on Node.js. Outside of creating APIs, what else should I do to learn “backend”? 06:08 - I work as a web master and would like to be a frontend developer someday. Currently I am working on a MERN stack app on my own to enhance my skills, but have problems focusing and tend to procrastinate a lot. How do you tackle distractions and get things done? I would appreciate some tips. 11:00 - Rollup or Webpack? Webpack 5 still doesn’t seem to support ES6 module output, as described by Philip Walton, so instead of upgrading to Webpack 5, this might be a good time to think about switching to Rollup (or Parcel). 13:46 - I have been learning web development (HTML, CSS and JS) and am at a place where I can build simple websites for small businesses, but I feel like a beginner and am wondering if you have any recommendations on courses to get to a more intermediate/advanced level? 18:01 - Why should you choose Styled Components over other ways of writing CSS? 22:56 - What are your thoughts on companies that make senior developer roles require leadership responsibilities? A great technical person does not always make a great leader or visa versa. 26:36 - I am often not good at planning out code from the start. I find that it’s easier to start coding, write a few lines, run it to see where I’m at, and carry on. This technique doesn’t work when I need to wait for a deploy to finish before I can view the result, as it greatly increases dev time. Do you have any advice for what I can do better? 31:43 - I have a very random question. for context I’m a Mac and Linux user myself. However, recently while building our company application I’ve noticed that Windows does extremely weird things with font sizes. Since we have a pretty decent Windows user base, obviously this is something my partner and I want to solve. However I’m very unsure of the best way to handle it. It seems entirely different from user to user. How in the world do we as developers account for these inconsistencies? We have tried vertical media queries that more or less kick them to tablet mode. Obviously this is less than optimal. 37:50 - Are side projects common among developers? I recently mentioned to my boss that I have a few side projects - nothing serious, just for learning mostly - and he said he would rather I didn’t, and instead focus on my work. He said he hadn’t really heard of developers doing side projects, and that if I want to work on things that aren’t our work he has other things I can do. Links inputmag.com Focus app TSdx Rollup Webapck Parcel Beginner Javascript Typescript Darknet Diaries ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Malicious Life Podcast Wes: LaCie Rugged USB-C External HDD Shameless Plugs Scott: Modern CSS Design Systems - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Beginner Javascript - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about turbolinks — what it is, how to use is, popular apps using is, and more! Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Show Notes 02:50 - What is turbolinks? Generate HTML on the server Send it over the ajax request Load it in the page 03:55 - Who is using Turbolinks? GitHub Basecamp Hey.com 05:24 - Turbo Links javascript browser bundle Intercepts any link click Fetches the page HTML 09:19 - JS Sprinkles Vanilla JS jQuery Stimulus Alpine JS Links Turbolinks Syntax 254: Headless CMS Break Down & Roundup pjax Svelte Next.js Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about the future of video for the web! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 08:19 - Scott’s Background in video Started editing in middle school Worked professionally as an editor and production assistant for magazine Created specialty flash video players Have been hosting video content since the start of my web career 09:12 - Terminology Transcoding - digital to digital conversion of one format to another Ingest - bringing a video to a new facility (ie uploaded video file or data stream to server) 10:51 - Streaming vs Downloading Streaming is basically chunks of content at a time, while download is waiting for the entire file to be downloaded before playing. 11:16 - Formats MP4 WebM DASH HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) m3u8 21:35 - Players shaka-player - https://github.com/google/shaka-player/ hls.js - https://hls-js.netlify.app/demo/ dash.js - https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js video.js - https://videojs.com/ jw player - https://www.jwplayer.com/ Bit Movin player - https://bitmovin.com/docs/player Ooyala Brightcove - https://www.brightcove.com/en/ 27:48 - Services Roundup 🐴 YouTube - free Vimeo - $ MUX - $$ Wistia - Cloudflare - $$ JW Player - $ Cloudinary - $$$ Brightcove - $$$ Azure - $$ Bit Movin - $$ AWS - $$ 46:59 - What Scott did and how/why upchunk Mux Video.js Custom uploader Using polling Links Basecamp Hey Inbox YouTube Wistia Drip ConvertKit Vimeo https://fronteers.nl/congres/2015/sessions/jsmpeg-by-dominic-szablewski https://www.vidbeo.com/blog/hls-vs-dash HLS Can I Use youtube-dl Syntax Ep 254: Headless CMS Break Down & Roundup Cloudflare Mux Framer Motion Cloudinary upchunk ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Flexibility Focus Podcast Wes: Mustie1 YouTube Channel Shameless Plugs Scott: CSS Variables Course - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat it’s another edition of the Top Level Domain Game! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 02:25 - How it works We pick a TLD from a list, and the other person needs to guess: Is it for a country or business? +5 points What country, business, or type of business is it for? +5 points How much per year does it cost to register? You may also say “unregisterable” +/- off by $$ https://www.101domain.com/ Is scott._ and wes._ available? -10 points for each 04:00 - .sd Scott: 5 + -5 + -126 + -10 + 10 = -126 05:46 - .ong Wes: 5 + -5 + -30 + 20 = -10 07:53 - .koeln Scott: 5 + -5 + -20 + 20 = -126 09:23 - .co.ke Wes: 10 + -15 + 0 = -15 11:00 - .tr Scott: 5 + -5 + 0 + 0 = -126 12:25 - .ist Wes: -5 + 5 + -10 + 0 = -25 13:57 - .xn—45q11c Scott: 5 + 5 + -295 + 10 = 20 = -401 16:40 - .reit Wes: 10 + -1460 + 10 = -1465 Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Jerome Hardaway about web dev, vets who code, diversity in tech, and more! .TECH Domains - Sponsor If you need eyes on your project, you’ll need a domain, and .TECH is perfect for representing your brand. Find out if your .TECH domain is available at go.tech/syntax2020. Use the coupon code Syntax2020 and get 90% off 1- 5- and 10-year domain names. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Guests Jerome Hardaway Show Notes 01:50 - Captain America of Tech 03:25 - Where do you work and what type of stuff do you work on? 08:03 - What was your introduction to programming? 15:46 - When did you start Vets Who Code? 24:13 - What is the stack behind Vets Who Code? 29:56 - How do you help prep vets to get jobs? 41:32 - How can you be an ally and amplify black voices in tech? 50:05 - Everybody against racism Links Vets Who Code Quicken Loans Eventbrite Animate.css Laws of UX react-spring General Assembly Code Bootcamps uses.tech keycode.info Tech Talent Pipeline @vetswhocode ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Jerome: 1: HBO’s Watchmen 2: https://vidr.io/ Scott: Explained on Netflix Wes: Jeremy Fielding YouTube Channel Shameless Plugs Jerome: Vets Who Code Scott: Design Systems with CSS Variables - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about forms, captchas, dealing with malicious users, and more! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 02:00 - So you made a form: Contact form Sales form Email signup for newsletter Bug report Sign up for an account Password reset 03:00 - Now someone is going to: Have a bot that submits it Maliciously write a bot that submits thousands 04:14 - So what can you do? 4:54 - Honey pot This is a field that is either hidden or you tell the user not to fill in Can goof up autofill Works in many cases 07:37 - IP Throttle Only allow each IP to do an action a certain number or times inside a window You may only try signing up once per 10 mins 09:48 Block known ASN 12:37 - Captcha Soft captcha: “What is 1 plus 1?” Annoying captcha: Type these letters Google captcha: Train our self driving cars Hidden captcha Cloudflare hCaptcha Links Cloudflare Digital Ocean Google reCaptcha Cloudflare hCaptcha Cloudinary Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about what they wish existed in React! DevLifts - Sponsor Refactor your body with DevLifts. They have a few different programs: 1) fit.start (normally $19/month) has a few options (lean, bodyweight, and strong). Workouts are delivered via email each month, with access to a Slack community for questions and accountability. 2) Premium (normally $199/month) is a custom-tailored option, where you get your workouts and nutrition advice after answering a questionnaire. They also check in with you each week via Slack to see how it's going and make changes if necessary. Get 50% off fit.Start plans with code SYNTAX and 50% off Premium with code TASTY. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the "How did you hear about us?" section. Show Notes React 03:53 - Unmount delay for animation 06:20 - Suspense with SSR released (or not because I think they are shelving it) Dan's tweet: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1259614150386425858 09:24 - File based components Like Svelte and Vue This would look like a file with a special scoped tag per page. 11:50 - Prevent Default shortcuts 13:00 - No more useIsoLayoutEffect useLayoutEffect on SSR should just work without a custom hook Simple data fetching strategy based on promises 15:52 - Recommended hooks E.g. "here is the best way to do things" Official list of best practice hooks 18:25 - A good form strategy Bind inputs to state directly without any change handlers Inputs and forms all around need more magic - it's painful 20:43 - Write once deploy everywhere Not likely ever E.g. automatic transformation into react-native (obviously not going to happen) 22:28 - Compile time directives https://github.com/bukharim96/directive-x 25:11 - Slots instead of children Allows for things like named slots more explicit than children JSX 26:44 - Removal of htmlFor, className and all other abominations of html 29:09 - Import Raact from React for JSX to work Soon will be fixed https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/11154 react-require 32:31 - Better conditional / if statement syntax 33:09 - Fragments by default Just do it for us - the error message already knows 33:54 - Automatic key ids If mapping an object, check for common _id or id 36:36 - Simple scoped CSS built in 37:29 - Short hand for props with same name is prop={prop} 39:00 - Prop interpolation without backticks: name="$first $last" Or just backticks without brackets name=${first} ${last} instead of name={${first} ${last}} Tooling 39:43 - Story for typescript/prettier/babel 40:11 - Automatic a href client side routing 41:51 - Scaffolding and component generation Links Svelte Vue React Native NativeScript react-spring Paul Henschel Scream Sneeze: https://twitter.com/morganc_smith/status/1235332301044801538 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Software Engineering Daily Podcast Wes: PicQuic Screwdriver Shameless Plugs Scott: Sapper For Everyone - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Wes' New Gatsby Course - Use the coupon code 'Syntax' for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about rural and mobile internet — options, tools, and things to be aware of. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 05:04 - Satellite High latency Satellite congestion Oneweb Starlink 08:43 - WISP Can be different techs - LTE, LOS, Long range WiFi Local towers put up in town 900mhz, 5 + 2.5gz Pretty cowboy 12:09 - Cellular LTE Goes over the cell signal Can be super fast or slow depending on your reception Cell plans can be rate limited 12:52 - Routers WE826-T2 Rooter / Golden Orb / Wifix Based on Open WRT https://www.ofmodemsandmen.com/ Nighhawk M1 ZTE MF288 17:03 - Modem Two types of modems: Host modems PCI-e / M2 Cards Sierra Wireless AT Commands Band locking Enable carrier aggregation Get detailed values on modem power See cell tower IDs 23:16 - Antennas Omni Yagi Gotta get them high Lots of connectors - Type N, SMA, RP SMA 25:47 - Boosters Adds noise 26:04 - Plans Some plans are phone only Some plans are tower restricted Most Hot spot plans are a rip off Calyx Institute Canada: Bell Internet Five Telus Smart Hub 29:27 - Speeds Depends on tower, congestion Depends on pre paid, post paid or first responder Depends on if you hit the cap or not 30:15 - Tools: Cell Mapper LTE Hacks Facebook group LTE Fix website Links Syntax 169: Hasty Treat - Remote Internet Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

It’s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about libraries vs frameworks, Firefox, who would win a thumb war, and more! Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 01:37 - Q: Why does React bill itself as a library instead of a framework? 03:14 - Q: Are y’all still using Firefox now that it has been six months? 06:30 - Q: Is it possible to do a hasty treat regarding the Brave browser? Would love to hear your opinion on the tech, view on the approach and why we could need another browser in 2020. Peace! 09:34 - Q: Who would win in a thumb war, Wes or Scott? 10:56 - Q: What are your thoughts on XState and state machines for managing state in apps? I’ve been super interested in trying to use it, eager to hear what you both think. Also, wondering if you’d have any recommendations on how to use it with Apollo, whether to use XState’s internal context to store app state, or use the Apollo cache. 14:53 - Q: Should I start a new project with jQuery or React? 17:21 - Q: I’m a young teen (60 different pages? How do you organize the REST-ful API? How do you resolve dependencies between API endpoint 1 and API endpoint 2? How do you share information between multiple components in VUE-State-Management? 42:44 - Q: I’ve done Wes’ NextJS course and he uses Styled Components instead of Next’s own styled-jsx. What are your opinions on styled-jsx, and why you do (or do not) use it? Links React Firefox Brave CodeSandbox VS Code in the browser CodePen Source Making Design Patterns Figma Auto Layout ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: 1: Myths and Legends Podcast 2: Fictional Podcast Wes: Parchment Paper Baking Sheets Shameless Plugs Scott: Sapper For Beginners - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Beginner JavaScript Course - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS functions, what they are, how to use them, and more! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 02:13 - attr() 04:14 - calc() 06:05 - :is() 07:20 - sin, cos, tan, acos, asin, sqrt, pow 08:52 - clamp() 12:13 - minmax() 14:24 - fit-content() 15:35 - filter blur() grayscale() sepia() opacity() contrast() url() Links https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1256229763225657348/photo/1 Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes continue their discussion of fundamentals — Bash, text editors, Regex, Github, Dev tools, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 03:17 - Typing Take an online typing test or skills - https://www.keybr.com/ 07:02 - Bash / Terminal WSL What directory am I in? SSH How to copy / paste / remove files and folders z Nice prompt (ZSH or fish) Know how to get out of VIM/VI and how to use it for fast editing Know how to make an alias 13:19 - Text editors Command Palette Keyboard shortcuts (just look them up!) Click through to source Multiple cursors Find/replace master Find and replace across files 18:37 - Regex Regex101 https://regexone.com will teach you just enough 22:03 - OS Basics Switching apps Unzipping File organization Searching for/in files 28:50 - Googling Learn how to google well What words to use and what not to Basic operators “-”, ", Use Reddit: for opinions Add dates - example: Library has been out for 6 months, and you can filter out 33:08 - Navigating GitHub Explore for finding interesting projects and creators Know how to clone a repo Create repo and push to it https://octolinker.now.sh/ to click through to files Use Octotree to navigate 36:20 - Navigating source View source Where to start in a repo (ie the entrance to a project) Most code repos are easier to read and understand than you give yourself credit for - it will improve your code reading and parsing skills Access to the minds of other developers 37:31 - Knowing how to pick the right dev tools pane Is it network based? Does it happen once you click something? Toggling CSS on/off When console logging makes sense vs using a better tool Links TypingTest.com Wes’ Command Line Power User Karabiner BetterTouchTool Alfred ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Fabric of the Cosmos Wes: Cosmonaut Stylus Shameless Plugs Scott: All Courses - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott tells Wes about his new Linux laptop — what it is, why he did it, pros and cons, and more! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 01:38 - Why? 04:20 - What is System76? System76 Lemur Pro 08:53 - What is Pop OS? Pop OS 09:41 - How has Linux compared to Mac? Pop OS is a great distro with lots of features, but command line knowledge is still necessary 10:07 - I can still run: Alfred Figma VSCode DaVinci Resolve Zoom Brave Chrome Firefox 10:43 - I can’t run: ScreenFlow Logic Sketch 13:46 - What do I miss? Trackpad gestures It’s not as polished of an experience Links Dell Toughbook Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Ian Ramzy about ZipCall.io — how he built it, why, and some of the surprising choices he made along the way. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Stackbit - Sponsor Stackbit offers developers tools that enable things like inline content editing, live previewing of content changes, and collaboration features on your Jamstack site, without code changes. That's why Stackbit is the best way to Jamstack. stackbit.com Guests Ian Ramzy Show Notes 02:08 - Who are you and what’s your background? 05:34 - Why did you build this? 13:55 - What is it built in? Express server Web sockets 16:10 - Why is there no tooling? GetUserMedia WebRTC Twilio STUN/TURN/ICE infrastructure https://www.twilio.com/docs/stun-turn/faq VideoChat.peerConnection = new RTCPeerConnection({ iceServers: token.iceServers, }); 24:31 - How does your server deal with an influx of users? 27:11 - How do each of these features work? Auto-scaling video quality Text chat Screen sharing Picture in picture Live captions Loading animation No download required, entirely browser based Direct peer to peer connection ensures lowest latency Single use disposable chat rooms 41:32 - Have you looked into any of the recording APIs? Links ZipCall Zoom jQuery WebTorrent Heroku Adopter.js Figma ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Ian: Notion Scott: Summoning Salt Wes: 4 Channel WiFi Momentary Inching Relay Self-Lock Switch Module Shameless Plugs Ian ZipCall Scott: All Courses - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes are back with part 2 on how to develop for slow internet connections. Kyle Prinsloo Freelancing - Sponsor Kyle Prinsloo teaches you everything you need to know about freelancing, including how to quit your job, earn a side-income and start taking control of your life. Check it out at studywebdevelopment.com/freelaning. Use the coupon “SYNTAX” and get 25%. Show Notes 03:27 - Images Resize client-side when uploading Lazy load or progressive JPG Width + height so the content doesn’t shift with placeholders Compress your images - lossless and lossy Use SVG where possible 08:33 - Scripts + CSS assets Hasty Treat - 5 Things That Make Your Site Slow Hasty Treat - 5 More Things That Make Your Site Slow 08:51 - Video Variable-rate video is key 09:13 - Connections that go in-n-out a lot Save form state on page refresh Show UI when user goes offline window.addEventListener('offline', updateOnlineStatus); window.addEventListener('online', updateOnlineStatus); Retrying in _____ 10:27 - Service workers! Serves up local cache initially 12:05 - Fonts Font-display CSS https://css-tricks.com/font-display-masses/ Sometimes possible: tree shake your fonts - load only the characters you need font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; 14:04 - CSS tricks Text over background image — make sure you also set a color so the text will show while the image is loading 14:37 - Testing slow connections Dev tools Mimic a speed, or 3G Links ImageOptim Slack Discord Cloudflare Workbox by Google Chrome Dev Tools Firefox Dev Tools Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about headless content management systems — why you might want to use one, things you should take into account, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 02:38 - What and why A headless CMS doesn’t mean you have to use a static site generator A headless CMS has an API: REST GraphQL GROQ A headless CMS can pipe its content into: Static Site on build - like Gatsby An app on run/refresh An existing website - widget What makes a CMS? Do you need a UI? What is the threshold? Is a hotdog a sandwich? Things to think about when choosing an API Auth - Rules + roles + levels How easy is it to create new data types? Is it code or UI? Can my mom use it? Can you create one-off content types? (e.g. settings pages) Custom workflows dRafts, revisions, roll backs How are images handled? Do you need another service for that? Pre-determined UI Is custom UI possible? Two-way relationships? Tags? Data validation? UI + API? Hosting? Pricing? Content movability? Can you get your data out? Schemas Users Revisions CORS or realtime API? APIs Can you insert data via the API? (or just pull) Node API Importing data 24:37 - Hosted Sanity Prismic Contentful Dato CMS Storyblok 8Base Agility CMS Seems to be making a big corporate play 36:59 - Self-Hosted WordPress WordPress REST API GraphQL API WP GraphQL Advanced Custom Fields for custom UI Most things in WordPress are custom post types and taxonomies, so data from plugins can often be surfaced The theme UI from plugins is often lost Drupal contentacms.org Craft CMS Ghost Strapi Keystone Joomla (JK!) 44:33 - API (BYOUI) Hasura Prisma Firebase 47:37 - Git Based Netlify Forestry 50:30 - Other Google Sheets Sheety Airtable Tina CMS Not a CMS Markdown under the hood Notion Links https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1254772936935739393 Pixel & Tonic GraphCool GraphCMS Sapper ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: DEWALT Random Orbit Sander Wes: Shelf Brackets Shameless Plugs Scott: New course on Sapper - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Wes’ YouTube Channel Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets