In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the various web browers that might show up in your analytics and whether you need to worry about supporting them or not. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. MagicBell - Sponsor MagicBell is the The notification inbox for your product. Add a MagicBell to your product for announcements, billing, workflow, and other notifications. The free plan supports up to 100 Monthly Active Users - use the coupon code SYNTAXFM for 10% off the first 12 months. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:19 Sponsor: Sentry 02:29 Sponsor: MagicBell 03:51 Big browsers and their engines 05:29 Cloaked browsers 08:16 What’s so great about Arc? Arc 11:33 JavaScript engines 13:30 iOS Browsers Open Web Advocacy 15:07 Android browsers 18:04 The rest of the browsers 19:24 Tor browser 20:20 Opera mini 22:48 UC browser 23:42 Opera mobile 24:57 KaiOS 26:26 Ringtone memories Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Lee Robinson from Vercel about React Suspense, server components, the edge, and more! Lightstep Incident Response - Sponsor Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Usage-based pricing on active services promotes collaboration across your entire team to build a culture of service ownership. Listeners of Syntax will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident. Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt. Gatsby - Sponsor Today’s episode was sponsored by Gatsby, the fastest frontend for the headless web. Gatsby is the framework of choice for content-rich sites backed by a headless CMS as its GraphQL data layer makes it straightforward to source website content from anywhere. Gatsby’s opinionated, React-based framework makes the hardest parts of building a performant website simpler. Visit gatsby.dev/syntax to get your first Gatsby site up in minutes and experience the speed. ⚡️ Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:34 Guest introduction LeeRob.io Vercel 02:25 Syntax hosted on Vercel 04:08 What is suspense? 06:50 Benefits of selective hydration 13:15 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response 14:24 How does suspense know you’re doing something inside of it? 18:02 How does this connect to server components in React? 22:00 How do we use this in NextJS? 24:32 NextJS routing future Layouts RFC 33:11 Will I ever be able to use web components inside NextJS? 36:12 Sponsor: Gatsby 37:14 What’s happening with the Edge? Edge Runtime 47:37 What should we use for databases? 50:39 Supper Club dessert questions OhMyPosh Hyper Warp Svelte Hackernews Reddit 58:57 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× AirPods Shameless Plugs Careers at Vercel Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through their web dev wish list of things they want to just work already! Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 02:20 Write Custom animation transitions 03:32 date input translate to JavaScript date 06:48 Smooth and animated drag and drop 08:35 TypeScript Interfaces are faster than Types 10:35 Request animation frame 12:52 Custom Elements / Web Components 13:52 Authentication Web Authentication API 16:12 Sponsor: Linode 17:48 useIsomporphic vs useLayoutEffect 19:48 useEffect dependency array 21:27 fragments without fragments 24:46 Overflow hidden without hiding shadows 27:11 Fluid text 28:52 Sponsor: Sentry 29:34 translate3d vs translate 30:59 Gradient borders 33:33 Independent transforms 36:16 animate height auto 38:40 Sponsor: Freshbooks 39:02 Auto synced deps when changing package file 40:36 Peer dependencies 42:32 VS Code Reload after plugins install is kinda annoying 43:04 Safari updates 44:20 Apps checking for passwords 45:02 File name casing as changes 45:56 Better sounding commit names 46:33 Test runner that is the same and just works 47:32 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Arc browser / Video Wes: Battery powered glue gun Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk the appreciation of coding projects that supposedly serve no purpose, but can be great ways to learn something new. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Show Notes 00:39 I am excited about coding 02:40 Sponsor: LogRocket 03:58 Sponsor: Linode 04:24 Projects that serve no purpose Bookit 05:46 Scratching your own itch 10:06 Discount finder 11:20 Webcam or audio manipulation 12:43 TTFS Parcel Vite Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Syed Balkhi about his experiences blogging and developing plugins in the WordPress ecosytem. Hasura - Sponsor With Hasura, you can get a fully managed, production-ready GraphQL API as a service to help you build modern apps faster. You can get started for free in 30 seconds, or if you want to try out the Standard tier for zero cost, use the code “TryHasura” at this link: hasura.info. We’ve also got an amazing selection of GraphQL tutorials at hasura.io/learn. Sponsorname - Sponsor Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:52 Guest introduction WPBeginner WP Beginner YouTube CSS Tricks Smashing Magazine 04:33 What tips do you have for blogging and audience building? AnswerthePublic 09:09 How do you manage so many people? 13:07 What was your background before this all got big? 13:43 Sponsor: Hasura 15:01 How do you design your products? 18:40 YouTube, TikTok, and video 25:12 Why the WordPress hate? 29:03 What types of websites are being created in WordPress? Easy Digital Downloads WooCommerce MemberPress 34:13 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response 35:26 What schools are you building? Balkhi Foundation Pencils of Promise 40:51 Supper Club questions Copyhackers Swiped Uncanny Automator 53:07 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Streaks App Ready Player Two WP Forms AwesomeMotive Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about resolving node version errors, using social media, bundler for building React component, and how does Syntax get made? Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes OhMyPosh OhMyZ.sh Warp 02:34 How do you resolve errors when starting up a project with npm that you haven’t touched in awhile? 07:50 Any advice for using social media to network? 16:44 What bundler are you reaching for when building a React component library? tsdx Vite 18:37 Do you have experience with optimizing third party scripts like Google Analytics? Partytown 21:37 What’s your opinion on a “offline-first” mentality? PouchDB CouchDB Supabase MongoDB Realm 25:09 Sponsor: Prismic 26:48 How do you make web components with Svelte? Build web components in Svelte Using custom elements in Svelte 30:35 When talking about “responsive” web design do people generally mean using flexbox or grid? Responsive Design at 10 Responsive Web Design A Book Apart - Responsive Web Design 35:24 Sponsor: Sentry 36:53 Do you have any tips for staying in React-land for just spinning up a fresh site quickly? 40:47 Who or what helps you produce and distribute the podcast? Lemon Productions Chris Enns on Twitter 46:08 Should a majority of _lodash functions be considered deprecated follow up 48:18 Sponsor: Freshbooks 48:52 Do you have any tips or tricks to deal with backend data date issues? 52:23 Is the “col” system the peak of how we handle CSS, or should we start using more built-in functions? 55:25 Why you you need CSS Color Functions at runtime instead of just pre-calculating these values once as a build step using LESS or SASS? 58:58 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× 03:12 Shameless Plugs ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Can tumbler glasses Wes: Car Sound Deadener Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Bun, a new all-in-one JavaScript runtime. What makes Bun so fast? What’s on Bun’s roadmap? And why do we need another JavaScript runtime? Lightstep Incident Response - Sponsor Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Usage-based pricing on active services promotes collaboration across your entire team to build a culture of service ownership. Listeners of Syntax will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident. Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 00:23 Welcome 01:21 Sponsor: Freshbooks 02:07 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response 03:20 What is Bun? Bun Deno 08:20 Why is Bun so fast? Zig 12:32 Module support 15:11 What’s not implemented yet in Bun? What’s not implemented in Bun yet 17:01 Config file in toml 18:08 Bun roadmap Bun roadmap 20:27 Why do we need another JavaScript environment? Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Adam Cowley about how Neo4j Database can help when working with data for your next app. Gatsby - Sponsor Today’s episode was sponsored by Gatsby, the fastest frontend for the headless web. Gatsby is the framework of choice for content-rich sites backed by a headless CMS as its GraphQL data layer makes it straightforward to source website content from anywhere. Gatsby’s opinionated, React-based framework makes the hardest parts of building a performant website simpler. Visit gatsby.dev/syntax to get your first Gatsby site up in minutes and experience the speed. ⚡️ Lightstep Incident Response - Sponsor Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Usage-based pricing on active services promotes collaboration across your entire team to build a culture of service ownership. Listeners of Syntax will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident. Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt. Show Notes 00:15 Welcome 01:24 Guest introduction 03:15 Browser innovation and testing 05:01 What is a graph database? Neo4j Cypher Sanity Groq 08:11 Is there a specific type of data that works best in a graph database? 11:57 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response 13:14 What’s AuraDB vs Neo4js? 15:01 Whiteboard friendly data model 19:52 How are GraphQL and graph related? 23:08 Can you sync with MongoDB? 24:41 How do you pull data into a div on the web? 29:19 Why are you used for data science a lot? 30:43 Sponsor: Gatsby 31:51 Is visualization an important part of Neo4js? Neo4j Bloom 36:01 Do you have to think about indexing with graph databases? 39:43 Are there uses Neo4j isn’t as good for? 40:22 Do you have to cache queries? 41:26 Dessert questions Intellijet Idea Cobalt 2 Theme 50:36 Shameless Plug Neo4j Desktop Neo4j Cloud 54:45 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Hue Lights Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their coding styles - functional vs object oriented, interfaces vs types, tabs vs spaces, should comments exist? And a whole lot more. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 01:56 Functional vs object oriented 03:49 Interfaces vs types 05:38 Tabs vs spaces 07:02 Semicolons vs no semicolons 08:10 Let vs const 09:33 Do you explicitly type or allow TypeScript do it’s magic? 11:26 Naming variables Naming convention for programming 15:13 Methods of looping 18:03 if statement curlys 20:57 Naming files 24:46 Inline testing vs running test as a process 25:31 Sponsor: Freshbooks 26:37 CSS property:val; or property: val; 27:40 CSS nesting? 29:49 Alphabetizing CSS properties 31:11 Rems, Ems, PX, Etc… 33:37 How do you center something in CSS? 35:22 How do you make something 100% height? 36:52 Sponsor: Sentry 37:30 Should comments exist? Better Comments Wes’ custom parser for VS Code Todo Tree 42:31 Creating HTML 45:28 Components in app or in isolation? 47:41 Sponsor: Sanity 48:45 Single component per file vs multiple Storybook 50:22 Naming components 51:19 General stuff 53:55 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Scott’s iPad case for kids Wes: Garbage can with custom bags. Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes try to stump each other with coding interview questions like what is a higher order component? What is functional programming? And more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Lightstep Incident Response - Sponsor Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Usage-based pricing on active services promotes collaboration across your entire team to build a culture of service ownership. Listeners of Syntax will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident. Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:47 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response 03:00 Sponsor: Sentry 04:10 What is a higher order component? 05:34 What is functional programming? 09:00 What’s the purpose of cache busting and how do you achieve it? Wes’ course for Beginner JavaScript 10:37 What is short circuit evaluation? 13:19 What is a closure? 15:49 What is the reason for wrapping the contents of a JavaScript source file in a function that is then invoked? 17:30 Can you describe how CSS specificity works? 20:15 How does prototypal inheritance differ from classical inheritance? 23:56 What is the difference between a parameter and an argument? Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets