How Doou Guys Stay Focused for Meaningful Periods?

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These days are so many distractions. How doou guys stay focused for meaningful periods of time? I'm luckily, lucky to have an hour of undisturbed coding time if i'm not in a meeting. There's incoming email, slack messages, p ms that need responses. Then on personal side, there's family that need responses and phono notifications. You'd think that typescript will get em firsty typescript gets a lot of stuff first next question from denzion of notification hell.

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about picking the right tech stack, whether useEffect is still useful, benefit to use uses setTimeout, and more!

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Show Notes

00:23 Welcome
02:39 What’s the best way of comparing the efficiency of object literals created from a factory function vs objects created by new’ing a class.
Perf.link
06:54 How can I always see the full signature in VS Code?
10:40 What’s your process for picking a stack when starting a project?
14:41 Sponsor: Linode
15:23 Is snapshot testing really worth it?
TS QuickFixes
20:54 What are your thoughts on ISR Incremental Static Regeneration?
25:20 Is useEffect public enemy #1?
Goodbye, useEffect: David Khourshid
29:02 Sponsor: LogRocket
30:17 Is there any benefit to use uses setTimeout instead of setInterval?
MongoDB
Prisma
37:13 HTML to PDF a great solution I use is gotenberg.dev
gotenberg.dev
40:12 Although async/await might make for code that is easier to grok, I find it worse for chaining functions.
Pipeline Operator proposal
45:07 How do you guys stay focused for meaningful periods of time?
48:36 How should code formatters be configured and combined?
Prettier
ES Lint
Editor Config
No-Sweat™ Eslint and Prettier Setup
51:56 What’s your opinion on the latest Sveltekit changes with load, file based routing, and more?
Major Svelte Kit API Change - Fixing load, and tightening up SvelteKit’s design before 1.0
Astro
Nano Store
55:53 Sponsor: Auth0
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