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Apr 4, 2022 • 26min

Types in JS?

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about a proposal for type syntax in JavaScript. 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. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:13 Sponsor: Sentry 02:03 Sponsor: Sentry 02:44 The proposal announced A proposal for type syntax in JavaScript Proposal types as comments 03:24 What are types? 08:33 Types as comments 10:51 Why not JS Doc? 13:39 What it looks like 19:02 Possible downsides 21:37 Why not define a type system for JS in TC39 instead? Why not define a type system for JS in TC39 instead? 22:41 The Proposal vs Typescript 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
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Mar 30, 2022 • 1h 2min

Syntax Highlight

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review your websites that you submitted including bald.design, Anh Hoang Nguyen, bradleyshellnut.com, and more. Prismic - Sponsor NEEDS AUDIO RECORDING FIRST 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. 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. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes Uses.tech 00:10 Welcome 03:35 How to submit your site for highlight 04:11 bald.design https://www.bald.design 10:38 Anh Hoang Nguyen https://www.hoanganh.dev 15:08 kennytye.com https://www.kennytye.com 22:42 Sponsor: Freshbooks 24:10 rubenoliveira.tech http://rubenoliveira.tech 28:47 abgn.me https://abgn.me 32:02 Sponsor: LogRocket 33:19 bradleyshellnut.com https://bradleyshellnut.com 41:11 hunterjennings.dev https://www.hunterjennings.dev 46:19:16 Sponsor: Prismic 47:42:19 matthewfarlymn.com https://matthewfarlymn.com 55:00:01 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Bad Vegan Wes: 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
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Mar 28, 2022 • 21min

What’s Up With Vitest?

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Vitest, how testing is handled, how code coverage works, and whether they think they’ll use it. 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 00:21 Welcome 02:47 Sponsor: Sentry 03:48 Sponsor: MagicBell 04:55 What’s is Vitest? 09:06 How is testing handled? 10:59 HappyDOM 14:13 Code coverage baked in 16:25 Files acting as folders 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
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Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 12min

Our Stacks Explained

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the tech stack they use to manage their course websites. Kontent by Kentico - Sponsor Kontent by Kentico is a headless CMS that provides live editing experience to non-technical users and hands you the technical tools to build websites, mobile apps, voice assistants, or anything else where you need content. Use REST API or GraphQL and get your content via the global Fastly CDN. Designed to unify all your content and operations, in compliance with ISO27001 and SOC2Type2 certifications.Spin up a new project today and discover Kontent. 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. .TECH Domains - Sponsor Dot Tech domains has launched a new game with wicked prizes. It’s a windows 98 inspired game where you need to find and solve puzzles in each of the drives. This is unreal and you need to see it to believe it - good luck and start the game March 25th at go.tech/syntaxbtc. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 02:50 CSS Redesign of LevelUpTuts 03:56 Overview of our platforms 06:06 The API ExpressJS MongoDB GraphQL Fastify Mercurius Mongoose 15:13 Sponsor: Kontent by Kentico 17:07 Customer dashboard Svelte Kit 21:21 Viewing experience React GitHub VideoJS Mux Vimeo 30:53 Hosting 35:51 Sponsor: LogRocket 36:45 Admin tooling Flexbox Postmark Drip Pancake Charts 47:37 Authentication PassportJS 50:30 Transactional Email Nodemailer Pug Inky mjml 52:36 Checkout Stripe Stripe Checkouts Stripe Elements Braintree Paypal 55:58 Hosting Digital Ocean Digital Ocean Platform Render Cloudflare 57:48 Sponsor: .TECH 59:39 Other parts ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Toniebox Audio Player Starter Set Wes: Vissles v84 Keyboard Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials - Svelte 3D Course 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
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Mar 21, 2022 • 25min

SSL Certs, Approvals and Cloudflare

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about getting SSL certificates set up between your hosting, Cloudflare, and other web apps you may use. 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. 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. Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 01:13 Sponsor: LogRocket 02:06 Sponsor: Prismic 03:23 Wes’ story of SSL Render 05:43 How LetsEncrypt works LetsEncrypt 08:32 What is Cloudflare? Cloudflare 10:33 The problem Wes ran into 12:27 Support is tricky 13:54 What is Cloudapp? Cloudapp Vercel 15:34 Two SSL Certs are needed 16:41 First solution 17:36 Second solution 22:36 What about A Records? 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
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Mar 16, 2022 • 1h

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

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. 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. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax 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? 52:03 Sponsor: Freshbooks 52:52 Sick Picks ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Okeeffe’s Lip Balm Wes: Okeef’s Working Hands Level Up Course Drop - https://youtu.be/LATf_lVYoMQ?t=829 Shameless Plugs Scott: Level Up Course Drop Wes: Wes Bos Course player update 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
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Mar 14, 2022 • 24min

Hasty Treat WTF × SSR vs JamStack vs Serverless?

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between SSR, JamStack, and Serverless. 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. Retool - Sponsor Retool is the fast way to build internal tools. Visually design apps that interface with any database or API. Switch to code nearly anywhere to customize how your apps look and work. With Retool, you ship more apps and move your business forward—all in less time. Visit Retool.com/syntax for more information. Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 01:20 Sponsor: LogRocket 02:26 Sponsor: Retool 03:49 What exactly is server side rendering vs. tech like Jamstack and serverless? Cloudinary Mux 12:15 Why use one or the other? Svelte Kit Syntax.fm 16:55 Where does Serverless fit into this? 19:12 What’s the ideal scenario? 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
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Mar 9, 2022 • 59min

Part 2 of Wes and Scott React to the State of JS

In this second part episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott continue talking about the 2021 State of JavaScript survey: mobile and desktop libraries, testing, monorepo, runtimes, flavors of JavaScript, 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. 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. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:20 Scott’s new sound panels 03:32 Instacart 2021 State of JS Survey Tauri 07:46 Mobile and Desktop libraries 13:50 Testing Vitest Playwright Cypress 19:48 Sponsor: Sentry 21:26 Monorepo tooling 27:00 Sponsor: Sanity.io 28:18 JavaScript Runtimes 30:51 JavaScript Flavors 32:32 Non JavaScript Languages 39:38 Utilities Syntax 401: Monorepo pnpm Turborepo 40:19 Resources Syntax.fm 403: JavaScript in 2022 - New, Coming and Proposed Features 43:18 Opinions 47:21 Features missing from JavaScript 49:30 Awards 52:58 Sponsor: Freshbooks 53:38 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS 56:41 Shameless Plugs ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: StoryPal Wes: Heartbeat Hot Sauce Matty Matheson on Hot Ones Gordon Ramsay on Hot Ones 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
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Mar 7, 2022 • 36min

Sticker Mogul 2022

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Wes' experience designing, printing, and shipping out his sticker packs. 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. 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. Show Notes 01:26 Sponsor: LogRocket 02:15 Sponsor: Linode 03:51 How Wes sells stickers Syntax 346: Selling And Shipping T Shirts with TypeScript 04:27 Where the stickers are printed Zigpac 06:30 How the stickers were designed 07:38 How do you ship them anywhere in the world for $5? 10:46 Packing the stickers 13:58 How did Wes sell the stickers? 16:51 Any concern about two people ordering at the same time? 17:13 One thing that did break Pushover 18:13 How the stickers were shipped Stallion Express APC 25:42 Costs for stickers 28:37 TypeScript sticker logo 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
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Mar 2, 2022 • 54min

Wes and Scott React to the State of JS

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott take a look at the 2021 State of JS survey that was recently published, including demographics, salary, browser APIs, overall happiness, and more! 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. 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. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 2021 State of JS Survey 01:51 Winter birthday fun 05:38 The State of JS survey 07:37 Demographics 09:18 Salary range 09:58 Language features 14:05 Browser APIs 17:36 Custom elements and Shadow DOM 18:18 Page visibility API 19:28 File system API 19:58 Web share API 22:15 Sponsor: Linode 23:12 Libraries 27:30 Stimulus 29:21 Trends 31:32 Happiness with the state of front end frameworks 32:28 Sponsor: LogRocket 34:04 Backend Frameworks 38:16 Backend tool satisfaction 44:35 Happiness of build tools 46:32 Sponsor: Freshbooks 48:27 The best podcast in web development 49:05 Sick Picks ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Inventing Anna Wes:Everlane Crewneck Sweater Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Course Drop Party 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

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