Join Wes and Scott for a 30,000 foot, ‘soup-to-nuts’ view of web development. From choosing design tools, website styling, and programming languages, to backend infrastructure, data management, and hosting.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome!
00:21 30,000 foot view of web development
02:37 Brought to you by Sentry.io
02:55 Starting with design tools.
06:10 Code Tooling
- 06:22 Text Editors
- 09:34 Terminal
- 14:28 Build Tools
- 16:07 Browser and dev tools
- 18:21 Formatter and linter.
21:43 CSS (how you style your website).
25:34 Programming languages.
27:14 Backend with metaframework.
29:36 Backend without metaframework.
32:20 Runtimes (JavaScript).
What is Bun? The New JS Runtime
The Deno Show
34:02 User interface libraries.
Shoelace.style
39:43 Data management: Databases
41:42 Data management: ORM
WTF is an ORM
You should learn Drizzle, the TypeScript SQL ORM
42:53 Other data management considerations.
43:33 Image pipelines.
45:52 Hosting, CDN, CI.
Where Should You Host Your App? Hosting Providers Compared
Hasty Treat WTF × SSR vs JamStack vs Serverless?
47:21 Hosting your site.
50:19 The finishing touches.
- 50:26 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 52:18 Captcha
55:03 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.

Sick Picks

Scott: GreatScottLab, Show #594
Wes: AliExpress Board, Wes’ Demo

Shameless Plugs

Scott: Syntax on YouTube
Wes: Syntax on YouTube

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