Desktop & Mobile Apps With a Single Codebase

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Scott and Wes talk with Etienne Lemay, developer of Missive, about his experience building Missive, best practices, and the pros and cons of building desktop and mobile apps with a single codebase. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 0:57 - What is Missive? 6:10 - What is the desktop app built in? 9:44 - Did you use any particular libraries for the front-end? 11:44 - How are you managing state? 13:37 - Is it challenging to do all of this in JS? 15:07 - What was the catalyst for the “multi-conversation swipe”? 21:32 - What is the mobile app built in? 24:00 - What are the advantages of Cordova? 30:30 - How do you manage offline/syncing/etc. so well in a JS app? 34:56 - How do you test it? 36:52 - Have you looked into Cypress? 39:35 - How do you style it? Links @EtienneLem Missive Spark CoffeeScript Backbone Redux Typescript Electron Webpack Javascript30 Cordova React Native Fastlane Amazon S3 Cypress Sass TailwindCSS Svelte Syntax 176: Building Steam Games with React ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Disgraceland Podcast Wes: Wagner 590 Spray Gun Etienne: Prettier Shameless Plugs Scott: Svelte Course Coming Soon! - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Etienne: Missive Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.4	Welcome to Syntax. This is the podcast with the tastiest web development treats.
0:14.5	Today we are going to talk about building a desktop app.
0:17.9	Specifically we have Etienne le May here from Missev, which is an email client that Scott and I both use.
0:24.6	We'll talk about what it is in just a second, but he's here to talk to us about how to build
0:29.5	actually everything in JavaScript, the iOS app, the desktop app,
0:33.1	Android app, you name it.
0:34.6	So today's episode is sponsored by two awesome companies.
0:38.2	The first one is Log Rocket, which is Log Rocket
0:42.4	is gonna give you
0:43.4	playback into bugs that possibly happen on your website
0:47.5	as well as a whole bunch of insights into what happened,
0:50.3	as well as Fresh Books, which is Cloud Accounting and invoicing and expenses and all that good stuff.
0:56.0	So welcome ATN.
0:58.0	Thanks so much for coming on. I really appreciate you taking some time away from building your app and coming on do you want to give us like a
1:05.6	quick little rundown of who you are and what you do? Yeah so I'm a I'm primarily a front-end
1:12.1	developer although I can do a little bit of full stack, but I'm at missive. I do the front-end. So missive is a full-fledged demo client. So with all the modern tools you would expect from your email
1:26.6	client nowadays. So we're talking news and later on do send, count responses and contacts.
1:35.8	We even have rules, what we call rules,
1:38.0	it is the equivalent of, let's say,
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