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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Are Web Dev GUIs Going to Replace Us?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about web dev GUIs — what are they, are they going to replace developers, are they good or bad, and more!

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Show Notes

1:30 - What is “codeless”?

  • The codeless movement is coming in with a force. Are they just selling something? Or is it a real concern?
  • All types of jobs are being replaced by computers
    • Truckers
    • Cashiers
    • Lawnmowers
    • Doctors
    • Why not web developers?

7:22 - First experience building sites with a GUI?

10:18 - Entire website builders:

13:17 - When are GUIs useful?

  • Brochure site
  • Basic e-commerce

20:26 - Is a GUI/Codeless always better?

  • It depends what you’re capable of doing

25:21 - Levels of hell GUI assistance in builders

  • CMS - Just modifying content and basic markup
  • Access to code, drag blocks into place
  • No or minimal access to code
  • No modification outside of options

31:36 - Are there GUIs for making applications?

36:54 - Are jobs at risk?

  • Yes

    • I think a lot of WordPress tinkering has already been replaced
    • The guy who knows what buttons to push is at risk?
    • Webmaster jobs where the roll was just occasionally updating HTML and text

  • No

    • Government
    • Educational institutions
    • Major corporations that can’t have their content stored via a service

39:55 - Our favorite GUIs to help development

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the Podcast with the Tastiest Web Development Treats out there.

0:06.1

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.4

Welcome to Syntax, the Podcast with the tastiest web development treats.

0:13.7

Today we've got a really good one for you. This is something that like pretty much

0:17.9

every other question on our potluck is this is are gooey is going to replace us what what role does a

0:26.9

gooey and we say that we mean graphical user interface so a program where you can

0:32.4

drag and drop or use some sort of interface to build part of or all of a website.

0:38.6

So like where do they live?

0:40.1

There's a lot of hot opinions on either side of this debate and we're going to kind of go through it and give our own opinion as to what that looks like.

0:48.6

Oh yeah. Yeah, with me as always, Mr. Scott Tolinsky, how doing today Scott I am doing good it's a snowstorm

0:56.1

right now it was like an ice storm this morning it's so much so that we had like this

1:00.0

incline and you're trying to walk up it and you were just sliding back.

1:03.7

Oh, it was like, yeah, it was a rough morning boat ready to go, man, right in front of the

1:08.2

computer, yeah, chilling.

1:10.1

Yeah, ready to rock.

1:12.8

Today we're sponsored by two awesome companies.

1:15.0

First one is Hasura, which is a GraphQL API

1:18.2

on top of a Post-gress database.

1:20.4

And the second one is Log Rocket, which is logging in session replay for JavaScript applications.

1:26.6

Talk about them part way through the episode.

1:29.2

So, Scott, what do you think about the codeless movement,

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