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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