Supper Club
Tom Preston-Werner, founder of GitHub, discusses his work on RedwoodJS, an opinionated fullstack JS framework to help developers build and scale web apps faster.
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Overview of the various TypeScript tooling options including type checkers, compilers, build tools, IDEs, configs, and recommendations for server-side usage.
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In this episode, Scott gives a tour of his home office setup called the LevelUp Lodge, going over all the gear, lighting, audio equipment, tech and other elements that make it an ideal workspace.
Supper Club
Jared Palmer discusses Turborepo, monorepos, efficient workflows, and getting acquired by Vercel.
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Wes and Scott answer listener questions about Next.js, database options, build tools, protestware packages, and game development.
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Wes and Scott discuss a new initiative by Cloudflare and others to improve web interoperability across various JavaScript runtime environments like browsers, Node.js and edge functions.
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Victor Savkin discusses NX, a development environment and build system designed for monorepos. He covers the core orchestration features, optional plugins, caching, distribution, migrations, and more.
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Discussion of 10 interesting browser APIs for accessing user data and hardware like webcam, geolocation, animations, speech, and more.
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An episode discussing TypeScript fundamentals like type narrowing, discriminated unions, and strategies for type guards.
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Discussion on what edge computing is, how it works, use cases, upsides and downsides.
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Wes and Scott discuss why developers still use the Axios library instead of the native fetch API for network requests in JavaScript. They go over various features like interceptors, progress events, and adapters that make Axios powerful.
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Wes and Scott quiz each other on random JavaScript interview questions and discuss techniques and concepts like weak maps, promises, and variable swapping.
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Scott and Wes discuss strategies and challenges around building custom coupon logic and engines for ecommerce sites and course platforms. They share tips on implementing constraints, conditional rules, tracking, expiration, and more.
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Scott and Wes answer listener questions about working on a development team, dealing with imposter syndrome, using icon libraries, fixing broken service workers, building fullstack apps in Next.js, when to move a project to production, and dealing with bad clients.
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Scott discusses generating 3D visualizations, animations, and physics simulations in the browser using Svelte Cubed and Three.js.
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In this episode of Syntax, Scott talks about his new Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric vehicle and its features. Wes and Scott also answer listener questions about adding interactivity to a Drupal site and whether presentational React components can be non-leaf components.
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Wes and Scott share tips for maintaining consistency with producing content, coding projects, exercising, and other life goals. They discuss the importance of committing to a reasonable schedule, planning time to work on goals, being accountable to others, breaking big tasks down, and measuring progress.
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In this Making Content × What is our Process? episode, Wes and Scott share their strategies for developing ideas and structuring content across mediums like YouTube, conferences, courses, blogs, and podcasts.
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Discussion on new proposal to add optional TypeScript-style types to JavaScript for improved developer experience.
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Wes and Scott review developer portfolio sites, providing feedback on design, user experience, and accessibility.
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Scott and Wes discuss Vitest, a new fast and modern JavaScript test runner that aims to replace Jest. They cover Vitest's features like built-in TypeScript support, compatibility with Jest, mocking, filtering, snapshots, code coverage, DOM mocking, in-file testing, and easy setup.
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Wes Boss and Scott Tolinski explain and compare the tech stacks they use for their online course platforms, which have changed over the years but accomplish similar goals in different ways.
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Discussion on moving hosting to Render and using Cloudflare's proxy service with auto-generated SSL certificates.
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Scott and Wes answer listener questions submitted on a variety of web development topics including authentication, motivation, tools, and favorite products.
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Explains the differences between server side rendering, Jamstack, and serverless web development approaches.
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Wes and Scott discuss the results of the 2021 State of JS survey covering topics like languages, testing, pain points and more.
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Wes talks about the logistics of his recent giant sticker drop, including printing, packing, selling, shipping, costs and more.
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Scott and Wes review highlights from the latest State of JS survey results, covering developer demographics, language features, frameworks, build tools and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss and compare JavaScript and CSS features like array methods, looping, object properties, positioning, and more.
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Ben Vinegar joins to discuss his work in web development and open source, distributed tracing, Sentry's evolution, remote work impacts and more.
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Discussion of new and proposed JavaScript features in 2022 including the Fetch API in Node.js, pipeline operator, JSON modules, BigInt math methods and more.
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In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer questions on Webpack, HTML tags, TypeScript, 2FA recovery codes, JavaScript alternatives, React frameworks like Remix and SvelteKit, getting unstuck from tutorial purgatory, whether frameworks abstract away too much complexity, and strategies for keeping up with new web technologies.
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Scott and Wes discuss how to stay up-to-date on changes and new features in open source projects you use by looking at RFCs, issues, pull requests, and following project contributors on Twitter.
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Josh Wardle, creator of Wordle, joins to discuss building the insanely viral web game using vanilla JavaScript and web components. He shares the origins, growth timeline, technology decisions, and sale to The New York Times.
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Discussion of pros and cons of different JavaScript server options like traditional hosting, serverless functions and Cloudflare Workers.
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Scott and Wes review listener submitted portfolio sites, talking through design, code quality, accessibility, and more. They also discuss trying too hard to use the latest tech trends.
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Tips for working effectively in teams, handling conflict, listening, and celebrating wins together.
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Wes and Scott discuss monorepos - managing multiple packages and projects within a single Git repository. They cover benefits like sharing code, tools like Turborepo, NX, Lerna and more.
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Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss strategies and best practices for updating dependencies and managing breaking changes in a Node.js project.
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Scott and Wes give coding, soft skills, and random skill focuses for beginner, intermediate, and advanced developers for 2022.