Diagnosing Performance Issues in Node Applications

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about multi tenant apps, JS sprinkles, kids coding, server error handling, and more.

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Show Notes

• 00:26 Welcome
• 01:01 Buying a new car
• Hyundai Ioniq 5
• 08:20 What would you recommend old-school jQuery folks, external agency vendors, and modern devs that want to work together?
• 11:59 Are React dumb/presentational components only possible at the leaf components of an application?
• 15:35 How old should a kid be to learn programming?
• Scratch
• Minecraft
• 20:28 Sponsor: Sentry
• 21:34 Without pointing me to a paid error program like sentry, how do you guys manage this rabbit hole?
• 27:05 How do you judge how much server you need?
• MongoDB Atlas
• Google Pagespeed
• 31:57 For websites that aren’t applications how would you best organize your JavaScript?
• 35:17 How do you diagnose slowdowns and bad user experience?
• 41:31 Sponsor: Sanity
• 43:13 Do you default export your React components when using TypeScript?
• 47:42 Besides web sockets or polling at a predefined interval and refreshing the page to fetch new data, can you think of any Next-specific solutions or recommend any packages that could help make this relatively simple?
• Supabase
• Firebase
• Meteor
• 52:13 We should look into ‘tunneling’.
• 56:42 How do I build a multi-tenant app?
• Caddy Server
• nginx
• Approximated.app
• Vercel offers this via a middleware
• Cloudflare SSL for SaaS
• 00:56 Sponsor: Freshbooks
• 01:34 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS

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• Scott: Vivid
• Wes: Right angle Lightning cables

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