796: Do We Need JS Frameworks × Are You Over-Engineering? × Webview vs Native
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes tackle a variety of audience questions, from the nuances of over-engineering to the energy consumption of AI LLMs. They also discuss the pros and cons of monorepos, frameworks, and the ever-important question: Do you really need to learn all the developer tooling?
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:41 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- 01:07 Challenges around a resume playback function.
- 05:56 Why use Google Forms for Potluck questions?
- 07:57 What constitutes over-engineering and how to avoid it.
- 13:28 Webview vs native component based mobile apps.
- 18:06 Running and managing monorepos.
- 20:59 Energy consumption of AI LLMs vs static web content.
- 25:19 Why do we need frameworks?
- 33:05 Handling ad-blockers blocking Sentry and other tools.
- 38:25 Creating sites without JavaScript.
- 42:49 Do I really have to learn all the various developer tooling?
- 44:47 What are the best ways to network and meet other developers?
- 50:16 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.
Sick Picks
- Scott: Tweek App/
- Wes: Rain-X Waterless Car Wash.
Shameless Plugs
- Scott: Swag Store.
- Wes: Audio Player Updates.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax, thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:03.1 | Today we got a potluck for you today, which is you bring the questions, we bring the answers, |
| 0:07.4 | please keep submitting your questions. |
| 0:09.0 | Go to Syntax. |
| 0:10.0 | Ifm, there's a button that says ask a potluck question. |
| 0:12.8 | Click it and throw your question in the Google form, |
| 0:15.6 | which I'm laughing about, |
| 0:16.5 | because our first question is, |
| 0:17.5 | why do we use a Google form? |
| 0:19.6 | I got all kinds of interesting questions today for you about over engineering, |
| 0:24.8 | JavaScript, generative AI, workspaces, etc etc. So let's get on into it. My name is |
| 0:30.6 | Wes. I'm a developer from Canada with me as always is Mr Scott |
| 0:33.7 | Tolinsky. How you doing today Scott? Hey I'm doing good feeling great |
| 0:37.2 | ready to get into it. Right on right on. Let's talk real quick about Century at Century. I.O this |
| 0:45.6 | podcast is brought to you by Century. The tagline is code breaks, fix it |
| 0:49.8 | faster. That's what Century is the tool for figuring out why your code is broken or |
| 0:55.2 | slow or who's using it on what browser as to what went wrong. |
| 0:59.6 | It just gives you all the information as to when something goes wrong how to fix it in all |
| 1:05.2 | the little bits and pieces yesterday Scott and I had one ourselves right we |
| 1:10.8 | deployed a new feature Scott did a whole bunch of work on, what was the feature? It was |
| 1:17.2 | resuming a podcast episode, right? Yeah, so it also, the podcast player on the site will now resume any episode where you last left off. |
| 1:27.8 | So if you come back if you were listening to episode 791, you got halfway through and then come back to the site later, it will put you |
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