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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

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how to develop for slow internet connections. 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 - Types of Slow connections Slow upload Slow download This could be that your kids are watching a show and your partner is on a zoom call High latency Intermittent 07:47 - Loading UI Show loading UI for everything, but after X seconds Page transitions on SPAs Form switches - enter country, get list of provinces/shipping/whatever 11:58 - Account for XHR failures Sometimes I’m in a loading state forever State machines will account for this 13:26 - “Still working” timeouts Some sort of timeout so the user can get feedback Links Sentry Sapper Backblaze 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 kids learning to code, React sub-components, why it’s so hard to scale, new frameworks, data structures, 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. 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 03:11 - Q: Do you think Selenium could get replaced by Cypress in the future? 16:16 - Q: When blogging about code, you need a good way to display snippets of code in your blog post. What are good ways to do that? Should you embed something like a GitHub Gist, or setup something specific for your blog? 11:13 - Q: Do my students NEED to understand recursion to be effective JS devs? 15:41 - Q: What do you think about developing using just an iPad + keyboard + external monitor? To try this, I just moved all my environment to a VM on the cloud and configured code-server (a VSCode accessed by the web https://github.com/cdr/code-server). Works pretty well! The only problem now is that the iPad has a bad resolution on the external monitor when I’m using the browser. 22:43 - Q: I often find myself refactoring sub-components out of a component once it gets too big. This however is very tedious, especially if the sub-component is tightly coupled with the component and thus needs to take a lot of props. Do you have any suggestions? Do you just let the component grow bigger in a case like that? 26:15 - Q: [Insert Hoser related greeting here], during quarantine I’ve tried to come up with an outline for creating a goofy Pokémon app with my boys (age 8 and 5). They’re obsessed with Pokémon right now and I figure this could be a fun little group activity. I see how much they struggle focusing on some of the online instruction they have through school, and they’re a bit fatigued with “learning” right now. We tried doing a bit of scratch/scratch jr. I figured a fun-themed project could help them stay engaged with learning, but I’m struggling with where to start. How would you go about creating a course/activities (like Wes’ Javascript 30 course) specifically designed for primary/elementary aged kids? 30:52 - Q: How much should someone who wants to work as a web developer (starting in a junior position) know about data structures and algorithms? Should I practice algorithms and do questions before applying for jobs? 33:53 - Q: I’m working with a friend to start up a website for our YouTube channel, and we’re getting into podcasts too (not tech-related so no competition, no worries). I’m thinking about trying to host my own RSS feed for podcasts to save some bucks. Am I crazy? 36:27 - Q: Do you guys name your colors in terms of the color or the use of the color. For example, say you styled all your links to be purple. Would you name that color “purple” or “link”? 41:00 - Q: I’ve been listening to you for about a month and really dig it. I’m working on an app that will require a couple of different databases. I’ll need a database for user information, and a larger database for application data. The app does some analytics stuff, so data is critical. I’m getting lost in the world of hosted database options (mLab, Digital Ocean, etc.) and big cloud providers (AWS, Google, etc.). Could you guys talk a little bit about how you choose database hosting? Bonus question - have you ever used Auth0 or Okta for user authentication? 45:09 - Q: I’m a bit confused about using GitHub. What happens to the files that are ignored, but required for development? What’s the best practice for backing up both? I have used .env files, but not too sure how it works if it’s in the gitignore and the site is deployed via GitHub (like with Netlify). Right now I have a backup folder on my hard drive and I back up both the dev and the live versions with a timestamp, whenever I do a new ‘release’. Also, you spoke about Jetpack, and I’d be curious what’s the best way to do this with a cronjob for example. 48:50 - Q: I was laid off in early April because of COVID-19. I’ve been trying to file unemployment since then. The state unemployment office said they were launching an updated website for filing claims on Friday, April 24th. At 9:00am that day, they ran a banner saying demand has been so high that it’s affecting the process ‘despite rigorous testing.’ Why is this so hard to scale? 55:57 - Q: What is your take on all of these rails-like server side rendered React and GraphQL frameworks? Here is another one built by Michael Jackson, Ryan Florence and some others: https://twitter.com/remix_run. This of course is in additi

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about IE11 — should you support it, what to be aware of if you do, and what data is important in making that decision. 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 03:21 - When was IE11 made? 03:48 - When is it deprecated? 04:44 - How to make the decision? Look at your analytics Look at your users Is a 2% drop in sales worth it? 09:00 - What doesn’t IE11 have? What can you start using now that IE11 is gone? Modern Flexbox CSS Grid CSS Variables 10:26 - Can you partially support it? Major features Progressive enhancement Gracefully degrade Polyfill 11:16 - What about testing? Links wesbos.com VirtualBox modern.ie IE11 Surface Book 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 teaches Wes about Svelte and Sapper — general premise, best practices, 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. 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 03:14 - General premise Sapper compiles away, removing framework code from build Component & Props based Easy reactivity Built-in tools like animation Template-based 07:57 - Svelte 101 .svelte files Files can include , , and straight-up CSS Variables are used in templates via {var} - even works Import component and use just like React and Vue 10:49 - Stylin’ All styles are scoped by default global() to wrap around global declarations Language type sass to use sass 12:22 - Reactivity Baked in let count = 0 count = count + 1 will reactively update in template variables are essentially state $: double = count + 2 - to create a reactive variable that updates when another variable updates $: console.log(count) = will run whenever count is update a-la useEffect $: if (count >10) = same… reactive if updates let name in script 15:55 - Props Same was React, but need to be exported before they can be used Seems counterintuitive, but you get over it quickly EZ defaults export let answer = 'a mystery'; import Nested from './Nested.svelte'; export let answer = 'a mystery'; The answer is {answer} 20:08 - Template logic If statements {#if user._id} {/if} Loops {#each cats as kittens} Promise tags {#await promise} ...waiting {:then number} The number is {number} {:catch error} {error.message} {/await} 23:12 - Events On directive Functions can also be inline Modifiers Click me 26:11 - Baked-in goodies Animation Dimensions {text} Lifecycle methods Advanced State Via Stores A store is simply an object with a subscribe method that allows interested parties to be notified whenever the store value changes. import { writable } from ‘svelte/store’; export const count = writable(0); count.update(0) Slots React helmet like stuff, ie 36:39 - Sapper Similar to Next.js Folder routes Static export with all of the good stuff like service workers and preloading Links Svelte Sapper r/webdev Vue.js ScottTolinski.com WesBos.com Next.js ScottTolinski.com Github Repo Gatsby.js Shawn Swyx ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Lewisia Battery Backup Solar Fountain Pump Wes: Firefox Containers Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUpTuts YouTube Channel Wes: Wes’ New Website 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 Scott’s new website! 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 02:25 - Relaxed fit development Not concerned with it being perfect Will act as a loose digital garden, so it needs to be flexible Keep my talks and podcast appearances somewhere 04:40 - The stack Svelte / Sapper CSS variables Static generation with markdown No API Hosted on Netlify 08:15 - Why? I dropped that db life in 2015 and never looked back I’m a developer - markdown is good for me I like a playground for ideas, so the new site throws out any idea of formality and dives into being a playground for myself. Full page animations. Orchestration. Fully SSG. Code is painless to add to — adding a blog post is as easy as creating a markdown file Links ScottTolinski.com Svelte Sapper Maggie Appleton Shawn Swyx 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 is new in Javascript — a whole bunch of new stuff that you can use now and in the next sixth months or so. 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. Show Notes ES2019 04:03 - Array.flatMap() 05:30 - Array.flat() 07:37 - Array.fromEntries() 09:50 - String.trimStart() and String.trimEnd() 11:23 - Function.toString() 11:57 - Object Key Order Integer keys in ascending order (and strings like “1” that parse as ints) String keys, in insertion order (ES2015 guarantees this and all browsers comply) Symbol names, in insertion order (ES2015 guarantees this and all browsers comply) ES2020 14:50 - Big int 18:09 - Nullish coalescing 20:57 - Optional Chaining 24:55 - promise.allSettled 25:33 - Dynamic import 27:14 - string.matchAll(regex) and string.replaceAll 29:30 - globalThis 30:44 - Module Namespace Exports 33:11 - Navigator.share() API 36:34 - Async Hooks 37:39 - Pipline Operator 39:59 - Top Level Await Links https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1181584047144878080 https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1238472679893671938 https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1230515254687301635 Regex101 Regexr https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/canShare Sketch CloudApp Figma https://nodejs.org/api/async_hooks.html Gulp https://v8.dev/features/top-level-await https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Sapper Wes: Dewalt Oscillating Multitool Shameless Plugs Scott: Level Up Tutorials 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 Wes’ new website - its first update since 2014! 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 05:04 - The stack Gatsby Styled components React MDX 07:04 - The content Blog posts Twitter Hot Tips 09:54 - Styling Styled components Less 16:54 - MDX 17:45 - Serverless functions Links wesbos.com bos.af WordPress ACF Netlify Gatsby React MDX My New Website! Here are the deets Next Operator Mono Mono Lisa Puppeteer gatsby-image Jason Lengstorf gatsby-plugin-prettier-build 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 with Heather Payne about bootcamps — how to get the most out of them and what to look out for! 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 Heather Payne Show Notes 07:52 - Bootcamps What do you teach in the bootcamp? How long is it? SHow do you validate and pick topics? What makes a good bootcamp student? Do bootcamps work? How do you get the most out of a bootcamp? 20:45 - Finding a job How do you prepare for an interview? What qualities, outside of technical skill, do you see in developers who get jobs easily out of the bootcamp? Do you see any common traits in the few that don’t get jobs? What about getting a job in the current climate? 43:30 - Other How do income share agreements work? Pay what you can income share agreements How do you tell if a bootcamp is good? Links Heather Payne Juno College WordPress React Council on Integrity in Results Reporting Zoom ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Heather: Whereby Scott: Original Grind Coffee Co. Cold Brew Coffee Maker (1 Gallon) Wes: iStat Menus Shameless Plugs Heather: Juno’s Continuing Education Online Courses Scott: Design Systems In Figma - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Wes’ New Website - 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 javascript events, and how to avoid some common pitfalls! 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 02:23 - Event bubbling Some events bubble, some don’t Clicks bubble Mouseevents bubble Focus doesn’t bubble 04:10 - Event capturing Capture: down, bubble up Canceling: prevent default target` vs currentTarget currentTarget is what got clicked target is what you listened for the click on event.isTrusted addEventListener once: true Links Javascript30 BeginnerJavascript 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 custom hooks, static site generators, code management, CSS, 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 04:02 - Q: Could you do a quick overview of how to effectively use a platform like Cloudinary? I have a Gatsby site with a lot of images and want to use something like Cloudinary to help with optimization, but the docs aren’t completely clear to me how to get the most out of their service. 10:58 - Q: What kind of CSS pre/post-processor you usually use? What are the pros and cons of pre-processor (SASS, SCSS, LESS) and post-processor (PostCSS)? 16:22 - Q: What is the most effective way to share a project with the internet and get feedback? I’m in a phase right now where I’m building loads of new web things with React and JavaScript, but the only place I can think to share them is my Twitter, where only like 3 people will see them. 18:35 - Q: What are your thoughts on classes in JavaScript? Do we still need them in 2020, or has the functional programming paradigm made them largely unnecessary? Does the answer change based on the size of the project and/or team? 23:56 - Q: Does ES2020 have var? Also, is ES2020 a real spec or just a term people are using? 27:37 - Q: Have you tried gqless, a graphql client alternative to something like Apollo client? Very interesting idea for clean and maintainable code. 29:15 - Q: What are the main differences in working for a software agency and a software product company? Pros and cons of each? 33:53 - Q: Advice for having static blog with minimal moving parts? I used to have a static blog but I eventually got sick of touching it because instead of writing content I often got stuck keeping up with all the dependencies involved. 38:18 - Q: Micro Frontends—is it the solution to rewriting legacy components? 42:16 - Q: I am relatively new to web development and I feel like it is very difficult to “catch up” with JavaScript. It seems like whenever I try to contribute an open source, I can’t figure out the code because they’re using newer (and presumably better) ways of doing things. How can I get up to date with everything that’s going on in the JavaScript world? Also, at what point should I start learning a front-end framework? 46:56 - Q: My team and I are starting to write pretty complicated custom hooks gathering data from a number of different endpoints and/or polling certain endpoints on a continuous interval timer before returning it to the component that needs the data. Since this is the case some hooks have gotten fairly large with multiple functions inside of them getting called to get/manipulate all the data, or multiple hooks using those same functions to get slightly different data. Is it a best practice to keep all those hooks together in one file if they support all the hooks? Or should we break the hooks into separate files and move the helper functions into another file and just have one hook per file? 51:10 - Q: Any tips for navigating projects with bad project managers? Working with non-technical agency project managers makes it pretty difficult to effectively plan and allocate time to ensure that all of the projects are done on time, on budget, and done well. It’s important to me to maintain an optimistic attitude in the organization, but sometimes I’d love to just hit 'em with the 'ol “Peace out” and go smoke some pork butt. Wondering if you guys have any good experience managing these types of projects? 55:45 - Q: I’m committing often and early, but this means that I end up writing the same vague git commit message over and over again. I know the solution to the problem is to just be more verbose, but it’s a difficult habit to break. Any advice? Links imgIX Netlify Sass Less Bootstrap Stylus PostCSS WordPress Reddit StaticGen Gridsom Vue Laravel Hugo ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Jelle’s Marble Runs Wes: Hyundai HHC2GNK Vertical Style Electric Air Compressor Shameless Plugs Scott: Level Up Tutorials 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 getting buy-in from your team when using new tools. 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 02:53 - Q: "I wrote a long message to our architect asking if I could install prettier into our component generator for new projects moving forward, and the response I got was: “Don’t auto-format, not all devs want that and prettier doesn’t always format the way I like, I don’t want to enforce that on devs.” This sucks because I know the codebase would benefit so much. Right now every time I visit a project so much of the code is not spaced out that it makes it hard to read quickly for me, lots of the React code is bunched up with no spacing - it’s a mess to read for me especially because I am very organized. If this was your situation where you know a new tool/standard is something that can help a lot but it’s shot down, do you just give up? I don’t know how to respond to this because I am the only dev who has ever proposed this at my company and I just started here. 05:03 - Lots to unpack here Some senior devs don’t like getting suggestions from other devs. There is a sense that these things change quickly and I bet there is some anxiety over that at play here. Senior devs know better than to slap new tools into the codebase because they have probably done it and regretted it. What if it broke your code. 08:20 - So what can you do? Ask for their thoughts on a tool instead of suggesting it - it seems you have done this already Show the dev that even though it looks weird, it’s better for readability. Look at existing guidelines and try to match the settings as close as possible (not always an option with prettier). Put together a solid argument for it, written down. Use it in a smaller project. Everyone is against prettier at first, but once they use it, they realize how amazing it is. Can you just Prettier the code yourself and then format it otherwise before you check it in? This depends on if you have existing formats. Links Prettier js-beautify 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 mobile first development, ES6 arrow functions, Deno.js, tips for refactoring your code, best e-commerce platforms 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. 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 02:50 - Q: Wondering about your take on mobile first design and implementation? Do you throw the desktop styles or the mobile styles in media queries? Any opinions about that? I’m switching a lot between projects that do it differently, and it really makes my head melt. 08:24 - Q: What is the difference between the ES6 arrow functions and a normal function? When would you use a normal function instead of an arrow function or the other way around? 13:54 - Q: What are your opinions or experiences on developing 360/VR experiences on the web? There are a few frameworks out there for building such experiences, like A-Frame and React 360. I was wondering if you had any experience using such frameworks or building these types of things, and do you think that this could become a big thing for web development in the future? 19:02 - Q: How do you define senior developer? What is the difference between intermediate and senior developers? 21:37 - Q: I was curious knowing your opinions regarding json:api and its consumption in React. Is it still a good pick compared to GraphQL or normal rest/json? 27:30 - Q: What’s your take on Blitz.js and RedwoodJS? Would you use a framework like this to build a large & scalable web app? 30:54 - Q: What do you think of Deno.js reaching version 1.0? Is it really going to be a Node successor, or is that just marketing hype? 34:34 - Q: When you are looking to refactor code, do you have a process you like to follow? 41:35 - Q: Which technology stack would you choose in 2020 for an e-commerce website and why? 46:32 - Q: I’m confused about developing a website for a client. I feel like most, if not all, clients want to take administrative control at the end of the project to be able to handle things themselves. Does this mean the only option for client projects is WordPress? I got really excited about making a client’s site in Gatsby, but they would need to be a coder to be able to edit the content of the site or maintain it. Am I missing something here? 49:52 - Q: How do I use prop types to check a component when getting the props from context instead of passing them down? 51:51 - Q: Should I use the mongoDB or mongoose node module in my project? What are the differences? 55:48 - Q: Is it a bad practice if I mix up React Bootstrap and Material UI in one React project? Links gqless Prisma The Blitz.js Manifesto (A New Fullstack React Framework) Begin Shopify Snipcart Magento Sanity Gatsby Syntax 157: Hasty Treat - What is a Headless CMS? @dog_rates Wondery - Joe Exotic ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Jackbox Games - Murder Party Two Wes: Tiger King Shameless Plugs Scott: Custom React Hooks - Currently 50% off! - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for an additional 10% off! 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 continue their discussion of website page speed — five more things that make your site slow! 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 03:01 - Shipping too much JS Code splitting Webpack Bundle Analyzer Look at dependencies of libraries Use fewer libraries 06:38 - Not bundling code Build process 08:24 - Not compressing code Google Closure Compiler Gzip via your server serving assets Minify CSS + JS 11:45 - Loading JS asynchronously Where should I put tags in HTML markup? Solution: Lazy load JS as needed Solution: Show HTML first, load JS in the footer Solution: Use Async + Defer 16:42 - Missing indexes on DB What is a DB index? Where should you add them? MongoDB Compass Links Syntax 239: Hasty Treat - 5 Things That Make Your Site Slow Google PageSpped 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 emergency UI when building a website. During an emergency, you need to relay information to your website visitors as quickly and efficiently as possible. How do you do that? What do you need in place on your website? 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 5:40 - Banners and popups Interfere Static Dismissible Cookie/localstorage When that popup is updated, it should show again. Maybe use a hash of the content? Or length? Something that resets itself every time the content is updated. Private client-side-only PWAs are hard 14:35 - Good styling What happens if they add an image? Do they have access to the branded fonts and colors in their WYSIWYG? Can you revoke 100px red Times New Roman? 18:32 - Page alerts Yellow, green, red Alerts on existing pages 21:08 - New pages Is there a good template for new pages? Can they easily set the slug? whatever.com/covid19 Can they add it to the nav? 23:52 - Google’s “Hours of Operation” Is that easy to change? Meta tags: https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification 25:43 - Other Own your audience! Email newsletter ready to rock Online pickup? Basic scheduling software https://www.cityhive.net/ https://snipcart.com/ Live streaming - have a YouTube account ready to go, even if empty 34:38 - Deployment Detail how to deploy everything It might have been years and the CSS will only compile on Node 6 and Gulp 3 Do any caches need clearing? Does the CSS need to be cache busted? Links 1Password Cloudflare ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Mellow Groovy Sounds YouTube Channel Mellow Grovvy AOR / West Coast Mix #4 Wes: Used projectors are cheap and can be a great deal Shameless Plugs Scott: All Courses - 50% everything! 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 five things that could potentially be making your website slow. 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 3:00 - TTFB Slow DNS lookup Server on the other side of the world Slow server processing Network speed back to the browser 6:21 - Requests Too many requests Too large Waterfalling your requests 9:44 - Assets are too large Images are the biggest bloat in a site Compress and optimize via build tool or ImageOptim Make smaller Picture fill for mobile 14:48 - Lazy loading lazy=“true” Intersection observer Preload slider images two ahead 18:03 - Not using a CDN What is a CDN? Cloudflare is free, others are very cheap - we used Cloudfront Netlify is free and comes with a CDN Links WordPress Webpack Gulp gatsby-image Cloudinary Cloudflare Cloudfront Netlify 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 working from home. How do we do our best in these unprecedented times? Here are our tips for working from home and staying productive and sane! .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. 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 2:39 - Your space You need a table Card table or dining room table Keyboard + monitor Don’t work from your bed or couch Headphones can get you in the zone (noise-canceling ftw) 16:36 - Routine Shower, shave, makeup Clear start and stop times - even if that means it’s 5am to 11am because you are splitting Taking breaks is important 25:24 - Focus TODO list - write a list of what you hope to do at the start of the day, check things off, feel good about yourself Eat That Frog - for the 100th time Don’t watch or check the news during work hours Block the terms related to the pandemic or politics on social media - you don’t need that info there DOOM Scrolling 30:11 - Self care Video games or relaxing things post work Exercise Kettlebells, spin bike, bodyweight workouts Stronger by Science has a great episode about this - https://www.strongerbyscience.com/podcast-episode-38/ Zoom Happy Hours Don’t overly rely on substances to get you through Get your VD (vitamin D) Don’t stress out yourself at night - don’t look up news before bed 43:20 - Managing kids and sharing time with your partner First of all, props to you all - this is really hard, mentally and physically This will vary greatly depending on your SO’s job, number and age of kids Our SOs have work and jobs of their own Watching young kids is hard work Give each other 30 min brakes Kids need routine - put something in place Some times Uncle Mickey needs to take over, and that’s ok Communication is key Schedule Examples: 6-12 and 12-6 4 hours each 2 hour trade off Focus time (calls, deep work) and half-focus time (emails, etc.) Have empathy with everyone: co-workers, SO, kids Check in on your peeps Keep an eye on your co-workers, even the extroverted ones Links Super Strong Neodymium Magnets Elgato Cam Link 4k Keychron K1 Eat That Frog! uses.tech Animal Crossing Love Is Blind Powerblocks Peloton Strange Brew Wes’ Twitter thread - How are you managing child care? Syntax Twitter thread - Send us your work from home tips! ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Oculus Quest Wes: Slumberpod Shameless Plugs Scott: All Courses - 50% off! 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 abstraction in general as well as javascript programming. 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 1:48 - What the heck is abstraction? I like to think of it as sweeping under the rug Vue and React devs should be very familiar with the concept 4:44 - When to abstract When things are getting too heavy Personal preference Some people have an arbitrary line limit 7:25 - When not to abstract When savings are minimal When it just adds a pointless layer 9:40 - Personal code abstractions vs public My personal focus is on API simplicity and baked-in smart defaults More specific Public APIs need to be more flexible or at least for some components Links React Vue Svelte Max MSP chakra UI 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 Dr. Courtney Tolinski about mental health and web development. 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 3:20 - Depression Honestly just explaining depression would be great. Too many times I’ve heard “but you don’t look sad” As someone who struggles with depression, what are some things I can do to rekindle and things I enjoy like developing and hobbies? This would greatly benefit me for learning more dev related things outside of doing it for work. My depression is due to some other cause in personal life - two years into it. Coding has bought me little life back as this is the only thing I have to do. What can we do from an outsider's view to someone who might have depression? 12:23 - Anxiety Imposter Syndrome x 1000 How to deal with increased anxiety during these times? How to avoid anxiety and feel useless when working products that you don’t appeal to you? Wanted to ask the Dr about why do I feel that I have to work on 1000 projects that seem to never finish? 😣This is inducing a lot of anxiety sometimes. I am on depression medication. Sometimes, I feel scared that I am so slow and don’t feel accomplished enough like people working at FANG, etc, being a SE. How to deal with the anxiety caused by today’s events around the world and the need to isolate yourself from society even though we crave human interaction? 29:12 - Focus and job performance How to keep motivation and focus? I find myself enjoying work but having a hard time focusing on it. All the “distraction-free” apps don’t work because I can turn them off and I feel they literally have no power over me. Hardcore mode Pomodoro technique 35:10 - Motivation and remote work Bore-out Burnout How do you deal with loss of focus and happiness in web development (especially on remote jobs)? Working for yourself at home, you don’t get a chance to bounce ideas and encouragement from others in an office. What’re some good ways to compensate for that to ensure you maintain a positive mindset? Work on new things Find ways to try new things 40:38 - Stress Correctly identifying source of (negative?) stress. Not lashing out when under stress. How to avoid eating to cope with stress? Links Eat That Frog! - Brian Tracy Pomodoro technique Healthline How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Courtney: Animal Crossing: New Horizons, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind Scott: The Engineering Mindset YouTube Channel Wes: Toca Boca Shameless Plugs Scott: All Courses - Sign up for the year and save 50%! Wes: All Courses - Eveything is 50% off! 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 security and how to get good at passwords. 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 7:35 - Setting passwords Absolutely 100% must be unique for EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE 9:38 - Generated passwords Make a sentence: lovetoEatPizza Decide on casing Make your own algorithm: 3rd letter replaced by 4th letter of domain number on end is double the number of chars in the domain 13:52 - Use a password Manager Have the password manager generate the password for you Get it on your phone You must go 100% all in 1password Dashlane Bitwarden - open source version of Dashlane LastPass - awful 17:45 - Password manager tips Turn off your browser password manager - this is a crutch and causes them to become out of sync and this is why I see people annoyed by them For the love of god, make you master password something you can remember You can add family members to your plan that will approve it 1password’s Watchtower feature 20:50 - Biometrics Face ID, Touch ID Blood 21:37 - 2FA codes Authy Google Authenticator Authenticator + 1Password for 2FA codes Backup codes You can also backup the QR code 29:55 - Text message codes Don’t My sister got sim jacked, PayPal drained, phone number was gone for 7 days Lock transfer - ask your phone provider - mine has voice recognition Links Have I been pwned? Shop Talk Show: One on One with a Hacker Mailchimp 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 bootcamps, Figma, Gatsby, AMP, Mongoose, imposter syndrome, 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. 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 3:02 - Q. Scott, you talk a lot about your workflow with Figma. As a designer going to programming it sounds like the workflow was natural to you. As a programmer trying to move into design, I have no idea how to get started. Could you explain your workflow on starting a new project in Figma through starting to implement in VSCode? 5:36 - The dreaded monitor question, flat or curved? 8:34 - I am relatively new to web development and have learned HTML, CSS, Node and Mongo. I planned on taking your GatsbyJS e-commerce course, however, I have no experience in React whatsoever. Should I learn React first? 12:35 - What is AMP and should I be using it? 16:07 - What are the advantages and disadvantages of building a web app using a framework such as Blitz.js? 21:46 - Would you ever consider moving from Mongo / Mongoose? 24:47 - I am very new to the dev world. Went to college 15 years ago for Comp Sci, but dropped out halfway through to become an electrician. (Wasn’t sure if I could sit in an office all day.) Long story, but I’m wanting to change my career path and I’m very interested in software development. I’ve heard about Modern Labor’s bootcamp and I’m intrigued. I’d like to know what your take is on their program. 33:15 - Loved your recent episode(s) on serverless functions. I’ve implemented a few myself, but I always come back to the same question: how exactly do I secure these endpoints? Because you are charged for compute time, and those endpoints are publicly available, couldn’t anyone just send requests to them and run up your bill? 36:53 - I’ve decided to make a career out of coding and programming and I’m an absolute beginner starting out in HTML and CSS. It might be a weird question but how many/what percentage elements and declaratives do I need to memorize? It’s not that the info is necessarily difficult to parse, it’s the amount of tags that I’m bombarding my brain with is muddying my progress. I’m more of a theory-driven learner so it’s not the biggest obstacle in the world but I’m starting to see the breadth of this endeavor and I’m not sure how to focus my mental acuity. 40:39 - Do you have a standard folder structure that you follow for placing “utility” function JS files? Is there an “industry standard”? I’ve just been using utils or utilities inside src, but curious if there is a more common way. 44:12 - Is figuring out new techs/modules/plugins/whatever really as easy as reading the docs for most people? A common response to “what’s a good way to learn x” seems to be “the docs are good”. I then open the docs and am absolutely clueless. Are these people just giving bad advice, or do the docs actually give most people enough to go on? For example, I tried to implement username login with Passport using their docs, and a lot seemed to be left out, implying you’re supposed to just already know all this other stuff. It’s a bit demoralizing to feel like I can’t figure out much of anything on my own, and I’ve been doing web dev for a few years now, albeit not professionally, but I have done some big projects that are used regularly. So anyway, just wondering what your take on this common advice is, your experience with being able to figure out things on your own without needing an hour-long tutorial, and so on. I know you’re both tutorial makers, but I don’t get the impression that you two have to take a course to understand something new. 48:19 - Do you have any tips for getting over “code shyness” or “imposter syndrome”? I find myself struggling with this issue from time to time and was curious to know your suggestions for dealing with it. 53:36 - If I rename my GitHub repo, will all the links that are in the wild still work. For instance will github.com/webruin map to github.com/newname? 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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about purchasing power parity — what it is, and how Wes has implemented it on his course website. 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 2:36 - What is it? 5:43 - How do you calculate it? Big Mac Index Purchasing Power Parity Spotify Pricing Index Glassdoor Just ask developers what they make 8:04 - How do you implement it? Cloudflare headers Dealing with VPNs Does it work with sales? 16:09 - Is it client-side only? Links country-emoji npm package 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 Hooks, one year later — what’s changed, how to use them, 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 1:26 - Hooks vs Render Props Hooks win hands down useState useReducer useRef useContext useEffect Custom hooks to hide and encapsulate functionality 35:06 - How we use them Scott Index that imports all custom hooks Babel alias to hooks folder Import { useHook } from ‘hooks’ useContextState Wes useResizeObserver useForm useGridRower useWickedFavIcon 45:54 - Which built-in hooks do we not use? useImperativeHandle useCallback useDebugValue 48:22 - Are hooks harder to learn? Wes: Yes — but easier to maintain after the fact Scott: Yes — harder conceptually and initially but easier after concepts are understood 50:29 - Are classes going away? Wes: I say yes Scott: Double yes Links Syntax Ep 092: React Hooks Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks - Dan Abramov babel-plugin-module-resolver awesome-uses uses.tech ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Ars Technica War Stories Wes: Mpow CH1 Kids Headphones 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