881: What Happened to Remix. Worth Using Axios? Client Only Next.js?
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Wes Bos
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🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes answer your listener questions! They debate Axios vs. Fetch, discuss whether Next.js is overkill without a backend, talk htmx and Alpine, dive into tech career transitions, and tackle everything from podcast ads to password hashing myths.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:55 Scott’s health update.
- 04:11 Submit your questions.
- 04:26 Is Axios still worth using over Fetch?
- 10:17 Does Alpine.js solve HTMX’s client-side limitations?
- 16:47 How should I host my database for a local-first app?
- 22:50 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- 24:14 Should I use Next.js if I want a separate backend?
- 32:08 Are ad networks like BuySellAds worth it for podcasts?
- 36:36 Can I transition from airline pilot to senior software developer?
- 41:23 Is Base64 encoding a valid alternative to password hashing?
- 45:43 How do I use unexported functions from a third-party package?
- 48:09 How do you stay on top of package and browser updates?
- 52:38 Why are Chrome and Firefox’s mobile presets outdated?
- 57:20 Should I give feedback on bad UX/UI designs from agencies?
- 01:01:53 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.
Sick Picks
- Scott: Nothing Ear (a).
- Wes: SmallRig Phone Cage.
Shameless Plugs
- Wes: Syntax on YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to syntax. Today, we got a potluck episode for you, which is got some really good questions. |
| 0:06.7 | One on like, where does HTMLX fall short when you need to like hop to the client? |
| 0:10.9 | And what's the best approach to that? Should you be using Next.js for a website where you don't |
| 0:16.9 | want the backend stuff or should you be reaching for something like TanStack or React |
| 0:21.6 | Router 7? Accessing third-party functions inside of a node module that doesn't export them. How do you do |
| 0:27.6 | that? Database hosting compared Axios. Someone's mad that we're hating on Axios. So we're going to |
| 0:35.9 | fire back at that. And finally, media queries, should you be using |
| 0:39.4 | the Chrome Dev tools, like phone sizes in there? And also, how small should a media query go? |
| 0:46.3 | All of that and more. |
| 0:59.9 | Welcome. My name is Wes. I'm a developer from Canada with me as always. It's Scott. How are you doing today, Scott? |
| 1:12.0 | Hey, I'm doing all right. Back in action here, feeling pretty normal. I don't know if you reveal to the audience what happened about my accident. But yeah, yeah, I'm all good, man. |
| 1:13.5 | You bumped your noggin. |
| 1:14.6 | Well, tell us what happened? |
| 1:17.4 | You were carving up a mean sash? |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, you know what? |
| 1:24.2 | I've been snowboarding a long time, like, since I was in the sixth grade maybe. So I'm super experienced. |
| 1:26.2 | And yeah, I was just riding and |
| 1:29.5 | woof, you know, landed in a way where the back edge caught my board on a steep edge, |
| 1:37.2 | like super steep edge. And so because of the fact that it was so steep, |
| 1:42.1 | when you catch your edge like that in snowboarding, it really just |
| 1:44.9 | throws you. It can throw you hard, right? And I wasn't prepared to catch my edge. So when I |
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