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In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about handling auth, are web dev real developers, handling Git conflicts, converting PNG to Box-Shadow, bad docs vs no docs, making Shopify headless, and more.

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Show Notes

00:10 Welcome
01:32 Fool’s winter
03:25 How do you handle authentication in an app?
09:42 Responding to people who don’t think developers are real developers?
12:21 How do you handle git conflicts in package-lock.json and/or yarn.lock files?
14:42 I built a small project which converts .png images to CSS box-shadow values.
Img to Box Shadow
16:37 January 19th, 2038 at 03:14:08 is the end of epoch
Office Space
20:31 Sponsor: Sentry
22:44 Should I begin to add PropTypes to my packages and projects?
25:59 What’s worse: bad documentation or no documentation?
27:37 How do you find the motivation or discipline to follow through in side projects?
29:48 I need to take an existing Shopify site and make it headless - what should I use?
37:55 Sponsor: Sanity
39:18 You have a ?token= query param and some token value for it. Could you explain a bit more on what is that for?
44:05 Have you thought about selling Syntax.fm shirts?
46:05 Can I migrate my Express routes to Next.js’ API and get the same httpOnly cookies workflow?
52:03 Sponsor: Freshbooks
52:52 Sick Picks