844: TypeScript, Branded Types, Streaming vs Polling + More
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes serve up listener questions on everything from SvelteKit’s limits and the quirks of branded types in TypeScript to handling email queues and secure token storage in cookies. Plus, they get into app security, the evolution of checkout flows, and why QA teams can actually be game-changers for dev teams.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:50 Catching up.
- 01:52 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- 02:56 What are the limitations of SvelteKit?
- 06:41 Svelte 5 updates.
- 07:53 Branded types in TypeScript.
- 11:56 Queue applications and a ‘poor man’s queue’.
- 17:20 The real value of a functional QA team.
- 21:34 Invoker commands.
- 26:29 Growing security and permissions concerns.
- 33:03 Stripe vs PayPal in 2024.
- 38:24 Christmas gift guide.
- 38:39 Websockets vs streams vs polling.
- 41:04 Storing access and refresh tokens in a cookie.
- 45:41 Shipping with TypeScript errors.
- 49:34 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.
Sick Picks
- Scott: The Black Stuff Deodorant.
- Wes: Apple Watch Charging Brick.
Shameless Plugs
- Scott: Syntax on YouTube.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to syntax today. We've got a potluck for you today, which is you submit the questions. We bring the answers. We got some really good questions today around. Is having TypeScript errors okay? What about TypeScript branded types? Is that an interesting pattern or not? I, me, Wes, was wrong about QA. Some interesting submissions from people who work at banks and how QA works with them. |
| 0:24.3 | Streaming responses versus polling. And finally, storing access cookies and authentication in a |
| 0:30.2 | cookie or should that go in the server database? Really good questions. If you got a question yourself, |
| 0:34.5 | go to syntax.fm. Click on the Putlock Q's button in the |
| 0:38.3 | nav and submit your question. |
| 0:39.6 | We'll answer it on a future episode of Syntax. |
| 0:43.2 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:48.4 | How you doing today, Scott? |
| 0:53.0 | Oh, I'm doing super good, man. |
| 0:55.3 | Just hanging out. |
| 0:56.5 | Kids had fall breaks, and they were home all for the past maybe week or so. |
| 1:01.2 | And we did a lot of fun stuff because we were supposed to be on vacation and that had to get canceled. |
| 1:06.2 | So, yeah, we just did a lot of cool stuff. |
| 1:08.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.4 | I saw you went on a hike. |
| 1:10.6 | I saw you went on a hike, copycat. |
| 1:12.9 | I'm not much of a hiker, but my kids have, my kids go on like these like forest days at school. |
| 1:18.3 | And they've been, been absolutely loving it. |
| 1:20.5 | They're like, can we go on a hike? |
| 1:21.5 | And I was like, sure, I can hike. |
| 1:24.1 | It's a lot of work. Yeah, Colorado, believe it or not, it has like 10 billion hikes. So we just |
| 1:29.5 | drove into Breckenridge and found one that was walkable from the downtown. But yeah, you're hiking |
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