The Importance of Front End Development

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NOTE: RECORDED March 22nd.

Description

Eric from Nuclia joins us to talk about Svelte... and the history of the web! If you're a new web developer this one is a treasure trove of knowledge. We also talk about Nuclia and what they're doing. A lot of fun!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Community
  • Dev Vlog Streams
  • TikTok
  • Svelte Summit - CFP unfortunately is closed :( 
• Who is Eric? What’s his background?
  • Twitter: @ebrehault on Twitter 
  • Mastodon: @ebrehault@mastodon.tetaneutral.net
  • Github: github.com/ebrehault
  • Mosaic Browser
  • Framesets
  • JSONP
  • AJAX
  • JQuery
  • Plone CMS
  • React
• What is Nuclia? Twitter
• RxJS
• Svelte
• Rich Harris - Rethinking Reactivity
• Rich Harris - Transitional Web Apps
• Svelte Hackathon Library https://github.com/ebrehault/talk2svelte
  • Web Speech API
• Erics PloneCMS Library: https://github.com/ebrehault/abfab

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: Short content is worthless
• Eric: Online coding is cool

Picks

• Kevin: Rubberducking
• Brittney: State of Svelte: https://twitter.com/ladyleet/status/1636754269041831949?s=20
• Eric: Halt and catch fire https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/