The Evolution of Web Development and Tools

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about all the things that have improved the lives of web developers over the years.

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Show Notes

• 00:16:18 Topic introduction
• 01:03:00 Leaf blowing and house updates
• 02:57:01 We complain a lot
• 04:13:22 Typescript improvements
• 06:20:00 Optional chaining
• 07:01:06 Async, Await and Promises
• 07:57:05 Array methods and tools for immutability
• 09:13:16 DOM interactions with getElementBy
• 10:34:10 Arrow functions
• 11:13:06 Classes! + All of ES6 was a huge breath of fresh air
• 12:18:07 Looping
• 13:22:00 Prettier Code is a huge game changer
• Prettier
• ESLint
• 15:51:00 Sponsor: Freshbooks
• 17:04:15 CSS updates
• 17:41:11 CSS Variables
• 18:41:15 Flexbox and Grid
• 20:16:10 VH, VW units
• 20:47:24 Overflow scroll on mobile
• 21:54:10 Color formats
• 23:08:06 Sticky headers
• 23:45:06 HTML 5
• Introducing HTML5 By Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp
• A Book Apart
• 27:54:00 Web components
• 28:29:09 Sponsor: Sentry
• 30:01:17 Tooling
• Syntax 12 Why Is Everyone Switching to VS Code?
• 31:28:13 Speed of latest crop → ESBuild, Vite, Snowpack, parcel
• Vite
• Snowpack
• 33:33:03 Image compression
• 37:08:21 Hot module reloading
• 39:11:09 Image resizing, video hosting, accepting credit cards
• Gatsby
• Cloudinary
• Spritecow
• SmushIt
• Stripe
• Braintree
• Entrepreneur friendly licensing
• 39:48:18 Entrepreneur friendly licensing
• 40:43:18 Sponsor: Linode
• 42:11:10 Developer Tools in the browser
• Tweet from @Bentlegen
• Chris Coyier - Let’s Suck at Github Together
• Chrome.io
• 43:52:17 Insights into errors and troubleshooting
• 44:49:13 Cross browser and cross device testing
• 47:12:19 Hosting and SSL Certificates
• 48:14:08 Scaling up
• 49:53:13 Scaling with containers
• 50:14:09 When did we start using Github?
• 53:52:12 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott
• 59:42:22 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Wes

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