Hey folks and welcome to Syntax.

Try a new little intro here.

This is a podcast about web development and we are still to be here today.

We are going to be answering a listener question

about our opinionated stack choices.

So I'll read the question real quickly just to sort of give you an idea about what this episode is about. They said

summary a 30,000 foot view of web development soup to nuts of the main options by category with a brief elevator pitch as to why each

player shines among its peers. I love the in-depth episodes a ton, but I would really benefit

from a simplified rundown of all the tech tools, platforms, etc.

Currently by category.

So this is kind of interesting.

He went on to say like, I've got a bunch of old stuff that I need to migrate and I'm not sure under each of these categories

from like let's rattle through them design tools coding tools CSS languages

frameworks meta frameworks, runtime, UI libraries,

data, databases, image pipelines, hosting,

CDN, CDIs, and finishing touches.

There's like so many choices.

So we did do a show on like how to build a website where we sort of like detailed how we would actually do it, but this one's going to go more into like what are the major major players in every single area why are they popular why do people like these

ones and then Scott and I will sort of say this is this is what we would like to pick and

I really like this idea because when I'm learning a new thing I'm really big on what I call surface area I want to understand what are the pieces what are the parts what does this include so that I sort of I understand the parts and now I can go into each of the

parts and sort of dig a little deeper so welcome everybody how you doing today, Scott? Hey, I have been doing better. I had

Part two of two of my dental surgery at a gum graft. If you have kids out there make sure they do not have a get a

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