758: Web Awesome with Konnor Rogers + Cory LaViska

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Font Awesome is back with Web Awesome, an open source library of web components that will work with any framework because it’s based on standards. Today on Syntax we have Konnor Rogers and Cory LaViska here to talk all things Web Awesome. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:47 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 02:49 What is Shoelace? 07:21 What is Font Awesome? 08:07 Font Awesome is getting into Web Components? 11:35 What is Shoelace’s relationship with Web Awesome? 13:33 Is the idea to make it quick to get up and running? 15:46 What is the autoloader? 16:29 Where does Web Awesome fit in the ecosystem? 18:13 What does the styling game look like? 20:33 What is Part in CSS? CSS Part mdn web docs 22:06 The reason we’re so stoked with Web Components. 23:32 Custom elements are a natural progression. 24:51 What are your thoughts on Open UI initiatives? Floating UI Close Watcher Can I Use 27:40 Wes’ escape key conundrum. 30:21 A bug on the Syntax site. 31:19 Let’s talk about Kickstarter. 35:24 Do you know what premium inputs will be available in Web Awesome? 36:12 Rich text editor. 40:18 Setting goals. 41:48 Kickstarter giveaways. 42:47 Have you tried drag and drop? Pragmatic Drag and Drop 44:57 The layout component. 48:50 What are your favorite components? 50:29 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Konnor: Enhance.dev, Extism.org Cory: Lit.dev Shameless Plugs Cory: Kickstarter Konnor: Everyone involved in open UI Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Syntax Supper Club. Today with us we have Connor Rogers and
0:06.0	Cori Leviska from Font Awesome. Font Awesome changed the game for icons back in the
0:11.0	day taking a process that was tedious and simplified it into just
0:15.2	installing a font. Not only that but it was the most funded and still the most
0:20.7	funded and backed software kickstarter of all time.
0:25.0	Font awesome is back and they're back with web awesome.
0:28.4	It's an open source library of web components that will work with any framework because it's based on web standards.
0:35.9	So we're here today to talk all things Web Awesome.
0:40.8	Welcome to the show, Corey and Connor.
0:43.4	Thank you for having us.
0:44.8	Thank you, good to be here.
0:46.8	Yeah.
0:47.8	And real quick, before we get going, this show is brought to you by Century.
0:50.7	It's the awesome place to find all of the bugs in your software.
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0:59.0	Less.
1:00.0	Yeah, so let me tell the story of how this episode came about,
1:04.0	because I think it's kind of interesting.
1:05.0	So we just dropped our huge episode on UI components,
1:10.4	UI frameworks, kind of like we talked about everything from headless to some styles to you just drop them in you can you can work with them and that show did really well and there was lots of really good conversation around it.
1:25.0	And like one thing I said during the episode I was like, I mentioned probably a thousand different libraries,
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