Frontend First

JavaScript needs a model layer

Apr 12, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

How to Use Stripe Stripe to Sell Your Videos

6min

Rails and the Complexity of a System

2min

JavaScript and the Rails Ecosystem

2min

JavaScript: A Good Fit for Functional Programming

2min

The Importance of Functions in Functional Programming

1min

React: A Natural Way to Express Your UI

2min

The Importance of One Directional DataFlow in Objects

2min

The Problem With React in JavaScript

2min

10.

Why Is It Okay for React to Have a State in UI?

2min

11.

Composition: A Better Way to Solve the Problem of Inheritance

5min

12.

How to Compose Data in Ruby on Rails

3min

13.

The Power of GraphQL in Rails Models

3min

14.

Graph QL: A Developer Experience

1min

15.

How to Overfetch Data in a React App

2min

16.

How to Use Prisma to Organize Functional Code

3min

17.

The Future of React

2min

Sam and Ryan talk about updating Build UI to support lifetime memberships. They chat about the site’s current architecture, the strengths and weaknesses of objects vs. functions, how the full stack JavaScript community could benefit from a proper model layer like ActiveRecord, the challenges of using GraphQL on the backend, Prisma, and more.

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