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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Wes and Scott answer questions about HTML semantics, TypeScript, adapting to AI’s impact on web development, and the best and worst browsers for developers. They also tackle project planning, deploying SvelteKit apps, and navigating online opinions in tech.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:04 Best container element for a grid of products?
- 04:50 TypeScript null checks
- 09:44 Adapt to AI or get left behind
- 13:13 Why did 3D never take off?
- 18:53 Podcast audio and video in one feed?
- 21:06 Brought to you buy Sentry.io
- 22:30 Best and worst browsers for web dev?
- 27:39 Why use a lock file for managing dependency versions
- 30:34 Should you build your own sync engine?
- 34:21 Best practices when starting a new project from scratch
- 38:33 How to deploy a SvelteKit app on something other than Vercel or Netlify
- 42:54 The reality of online opinions in tech
- 48:10 Spending $120k on an app idea
- 54:12 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
Sick Picks
- Scott: My Mind
- Wes: Metal Detector
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, which is you bring the questions. |
| 0:04.1 | We bring the answers. We've got some really good questions today on TypeScript Null checks. |
| 0:08.5 | How do you check if an element is there before you go ahead and use it? What's the best approach for that? |
| 0:13.8 | What's the correct HTML tag for items in an e-commerce store of finding good opinions online? |
| 0:20.7 | Somebody needs the truth. Spending $120,000 on an app |
| 0:24.5 | idea and getting nothing awful story and how to plan a new project. You know, one of the |
| 0:30.3 | questions we got in the potluck is when are you going to stop using this janky Google form? |
| 0:34.6 | Yes. |
| 0:35.1 | Which we should move it over because we wrote the submission form for a |
| 0:40.7 | couple other things for the spooky story submissions, for the open source sponsorship thing. |
| 0:45.6 | So it just needs to be switched over because, yes, it's a Google form is always a failure of |
| 0:51.6 | your infrastructure. |
| 0:53.3 | It's maybe not a failure. |
| 0:54.8 | What it is, it is an acknowledgement that my time is more important. |
| 1:00.0 | It's lean. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah, it's lean, right. |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah, totally. |
| 1:04.0 | All right, let's get into the first question here from the Ponderer. |
| 1:07.1 | What's the most appropriate container element for a grid of products on an e-commerce store? |
| 1:14.0 | I'm building a storefront at the moment, and on the collection template, I'm not sure. |
| 1:20.9 | What is the best element to use? |
| 1:23.0 | I'm looking around at major online stores. |
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