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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

822: Receipt Printer with JavaScript

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Wes unveils his Hack-Week project —a thermal printer controlled by JavaScript that prints out Sentry.io errors in real-time. Scott and Wes dive into the nitty-gritty of how it works, from the ESC/POS protocol to tackling socket issues, and whether the project was worth the effort.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax on this Monday, Hastie Treat.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking all about Wes's Hack Week project, which was a receipt printer

0:08.8

with JavaScript.

0:09.8

This is one of the coolest things he is posting about on social.

0:12.9

I'm really stoked to get into the nitty gritty about what it takes to build a receipt

0:17.5

printer with JavaScript and why you might want to do that, maybe some of the protocols over,

0:21.5

you know, just interesting things that West learned.

0:23.4

My name is Scott Tolensky, I'm a developer from Denver, and with me as always is West.

0:26.4

Boss, the receipt printing man, what's up, dude?

0:29.2

Hey, that was a really fun project, so I'm excited to people have been asking like I can't wait for the syntax rundown on all the different details on it.

0:38.6

Yeah, it's Hack Week at Century and Century is the perfect tool to find all of your errors, maybe print them out as a receipt and have them available for you to see. It's so fun.

0:50.0

Century is just one of those tools again that if your application has errors, which you know it's going to, it allows you to fix those errors faster and easier and with way less stress than you could without it. So it's an essential tool in my tool belt and it was

1:04.8

long before this podcast was presented by Century. So thank you to Century. So Hack Week

1:10.8

at Century. This is our second Hack Week at Century. It, yeah, this is our second Hack Week at Century.

1:14.4

The first one, we had some pretty neat projects.

1:17.2

We've worked on a hardware project again.

1:19.2

I worked on a multiplayer text editor.

1:22.1

But Hack Week, if you don't know it, at companies as often you get a time to just work on some cool stuff. And maybe it's related to Century or your business.

1:33.1

Maybe it's just something off the wall,

1:35.0

but it should be something interesting and exciting

1:37.5

and maybe stimulating you to learn some things.

1:40.4

So, West, do you want to tell us a little bit about your project, why you made it?

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