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🗓️ 10 February 2025
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JavaScript is missing a built-in way to make variables reactive—but Signals might change that. Scott and Wes break down what Signals are, how they compare to React state, and how different frameworks like Preact, Solid, Vue, and Qwik are already using them.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax. Today we had that episode on JavaScript Signals Explained. This is something, |
0:06.9 | a concept that has been implemented in, I think, all of the frameworks out there. And there's |
0:13.6 | currently a proposal. It's pretty early on, so don't get too excited. But there's a proposal to |
0:20.0 | add signals to JavaScript. And I thought, |
0:22.6 | like, let's do a quick little explainer episode explaining what signals are and why they're |
0:27.4 | useful and sort of the couple of ideas behind them. My name is Wes Boss, developer from Canada, |
0:34.0 | with me as always, is Scott Tolensky. This up, Scott? Oh man, not not much, not much, |
0:40.7 | just hanging out. I, uh, those of you, uh, heard about my finger injury, it's on the mend. |
0:46.1 | Oh, good. So, yeah, I got it down to just a little Band-Aid now and I can actually type with it. |
0:51.0 | So progress. Believe it or not, the doctor told me that thing's going |
0:55.0 | to heal fast. I said, there's no way that's true. And it's healed pretty fast. So I'm, I'm pretty |
0:59.9 | stoked about that. It's nice to have a working pinky. Yeah, hands are one of the thing that like, |
1:04.1 | like bounce back as quickly as possible because you use them so often. So you're lucky. That's what he was like. He told me to take off the splint and use it because it's, otherwise, it's just going to heal |
1:16.4 | stiff or whatever. |
1:17.6 | And I didn't damage. |
1:18.3 | Split and use it. |
1:18.9 | That's my favorite Blink 182 album, actually. |
1:21.1 | Oh, yeah. |
1:21.6 | Take off your splint and use it. |
1:23.0 | I used to have a t-shirt that said, take off your pants and on the back it just said and jacket and |
1:29.2 | I'm sure my mom was just like what the hell like oh man yeah it was just big bold letters on the whole thing |
1:35.0 | understood what that was for the longest time yeah I think I understood it but I was too like |
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