Exploring Modern Web Development Tools

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott all things Astro with the announcement of Astro version 3, marketing open source projects, Starlight docs, keeping up to date, and making major version numbers less scary.

• 00:35 Welcome 3x guest Fred Schott!
• Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott — Syntax Podcast 580
• Pika Pkg — Syntax Podcast 212
• 05:11 What is Astro?
• 07:37 What’s new in Astro v3?
• Astro 3.0 | Astro
• 14:18 Behind the scenes improvements in Astro v3
• 18:17 HMR Enhancements
• 20:10 What’s the hosting partner deal with Vercel?
• Vercel: Our Official Hosting Partner | Astro
• 28:04 Docs template Starlight announcement
• Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro
• 31:28 How often do you release updates?
• 33:47 Marketing open source
• Time to suit up | Astro Shop
• SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
• 36:18 Making major version numbers less scary
• 40:04 Does Astro use Vite?
• Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling
• 42:01 Is it different working on a framework than a tool like Snowpack?
• 43:53 Thoughts on cloud text editors
• Project IDX
• 47:02 How do you keep up to date?
• 48:43 Do you write in TypeScript?
• 51:31 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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