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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

759: How to Easily Explore Coding Ideas

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Wes serve up top tools and tricks for rapid idea execution, from JavaScript services like Valtown and Observable to database solutions including LowDB and Google Sheets integration. Get ready to streamline your development ideation process with these tasty insights! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:16 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 03:14 JavaScript Services. 03:43 Valtown. 05:44 Observable. 06:35 Notebooks. 08:23 Deno Juypter Notebooks. 09:51 Svelte Repl. 10:32 Playgrounds: TypeScript, Tailwind, etc… 11:05 CSS Services. 11:10 CodePen. 13:14 Full stack services. 13:47 Your own stack. Hot Tips & Cool Treats. Wes’s Hot Tips. Scott’s Cool Treats. 21:01 Bun file routing. 24:25 Tooling and tips. 26:30 Database. 26:51 Write to a file. 27:40 LowDB. 29:00 SQLite + Drizzle. 29:40 Google Sheets. 30:06 Sheet DB. 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 Syntax on this Monday hasty treat.

0:03.7

We're going to be exploring some ideas on how you can explore your ideas in coding.

0:09.6

We're going to be talking about all the different ways you can get up and running quickly with demos to explore

0:14.6

any ideas that pop into your head. Hey, you thought of something in CSS? You got to get it down on paper

0:19.2

really quick. That way you don't forget it. You can maybe validate your idea before tossing it into a real project.

0:25.0

We're going to be talking all about services you can use to do this or just ways that we like to do this all ourselves.

0:30.0

My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver with me as always is West Boss.

0:35.6

Hey excited to talk about this. I think it's kind of important to know how to, if you have an idea or if you have a problem being able to quickly get that up and

0:46.6

running somewhere with quick feedback and to see how it works is is really key. both if you're trying to send a demo to somebody else or if you just like see a new

0:57.3

API you hear about us talk about it on syntax and you want to try it out that zero to 60 of like I'm up and running with this type of thing is really important because I don't know about you because if it's too hard then I'll just like,

1:10.0

ooh, you want to go ride bikes? Yeah, you know what the worst thing in the world is?

1:14.0

You're sitting there, you have a seed of inspiration,

1:17.0

you're like, oh, I gotta try this out, this is gonna be so exciting.

1:20.0

You sit down and you start to install a build process or create at React app or you know

1:27.2

use Veit or whatever and you spend some time getting your tooling up and running you

1:32.0

pick your framework and you start to code on it and then you're just like

1:35.8

all right I'm tired I'm ready for a nap and it's not like it's that hard but like when you have an idea it's really nice to be able to just start working on that idea at that moment and maybe it's just because I'm hyperactive but if I if I don't like get that idea out of my brain I begin to like really get distracted and start to think about something else really quickly.

1:58.0

So there's a number of things that we can do both online and little services here as well as we're going to be talking about code

2:05.9

platforms you can have for yourself. You set it up once and then you can use it for all your

2:10.4

own demos. We're even going to be talking about easy ways

2:12.9

to work with data as well.

2:16.0

But before we get going, if that little idea

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