Potluck - Handling Auth × Are Web Dev Real Developers? × Handling Git Conflicts × Converting PNG to Box-Shadow × Bad Docs vs No Docs × Making Shopify Headless

Mar 16, 2022

Wes and Scott tackle handling authentication in apps and share strategies for managing access control. They debate whether web developers are 'real' developers and discuss best practices for handling Git conflicts. The duo also reveals a fun project that converts PNGs to CSS box-shadow values. The importance of documentation takes center stage as they argue that bad docs are better than none. Plus, insights on making Shopify headless and integrating with content management systems add to the rich discussion.

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Authentication Levels

Handle authentication levels by creating individual permissions.
Group permissions into roles for flexible access control.

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Frontend Development

Ignore people who dismiss frontend development.
Focus on your work and don't engage with negativity.

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Git Conflicts

Regenerate package-lock.json or yarn.lock files to resolve Git conflicts.
Manual merging is tedious and poses security risks.

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In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about handling auth, are web dev real developers, handling Git conflicts, converting PNG to Box-Shadow, bad docs vs no docs, making Shopify headless, and more.

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Show Notes

00:10 Welcome
01:32 Fool’s winter
03:25 How do you handle authentication in an app?
09:42 Responding to people who don’t think developers are real developers?
12:21 How do you handle git conflicts in package-lock.json and/or yarn.lock files?
14:42 I built a small project which converts .png images to CSS box-shadow values.
Img to Box Shadow
16:37 January 19th, 2038 at 03:14:08 is the end of epoch
Office Space
20:31 Sponsor: Sentry
22:44 Should I begin to add PropTypes to my packages and projects?
25:59 What’s worse: bad documentation or no documentation?
27:37 How do you find the motivation or discipline to follow through in side projects?
29:48 I need to take an existing Shopify site and make it headless - what should I use?
37:55 Sponsor: Sanity
39:18 You have a ?token= query param and some token value for it. Could you explain a bit more on what is that for?
44:05 Have you thought about selling Syntax.fm shirts?
46:05 Can I migrate my Express routes to Next.js’ API and get the same httpOnly cookies workflow?
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