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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Everything in web dev is Amazing!

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about all the things that have improved the lives of web developers over the years. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. 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. Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Show Notes 00:16:18 Topic introduction 01:03:00 Leaf blowing and house updates 02:57:01 We complain a lot 04:13:22 Typescript improvements 06:20:00 Optional chaining 07:01:06 Async, Await and Promises 07:57:05 Array methods and tools for immutability 09:13:16 DOM interactions with getElementBy 10:34:10 Arrow functions 11:13:06 Classes! + All of ES6 was a huge breath of fresh air 12:18:07 Looping 13:22:00 Prettier Code is a huge game changer Prettier ESLint 15:51:00 Sponsor: Freshbooks 17:04:15 CSS updates 17:41:11 CSS Variables 18:41:15 Flexbox and Grid 20:16:10 VH, VW units 20:47:24 Overflow scroll on mobile 21:54:10 Color formats 23:08:06 Sticky headers 23:45:06 HTML 5 Introducing HTML5 By Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp A Book Apart 27:54:00 Web components 28:29:09 Sponsor: Sentry 30:01:17 Tooling Syntax 12 Why Is Everyone Switching to VS Code? 31:28:13 Speed of latest crop → ESBuild, Vite, Snowpack, parcel Vite Snowpack 33:33:03 Image compression 37:08:21 Hot module reloading 39:11:09 Image resizing, video hosting, accepting credit cards Gatsby Cloudinary Spritecow SmushIt Stripe Braintree Entrepreneur friendly licensing 39:48:18 Entrepreneur friendly licensing 40:43:18 Sponsor: Linode 42:11:10 Developer Tools in the browser Tweet from @Bentlegen Chris Coyier - Let’s Suck at Github Together Chrome.io 43:52:17 Insights into errors and troubleshooting 44:49:13 Cross browser and cross device testing 47:12:19 Hosting and SSL Certificates 48:14:08 Scaling up 49:53:13 Scaling with containers 50:14:09 When did we start using Github? 53:52:12 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott 59:42:22 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Wes ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Tonal Wes: Reboot your Portfolio / Canadian Couch Potato Shameless Plugs Scott: Astro Course - Sign up for the year and save 50%! Wes: All Courses - Black Friday sale! 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

0:06.0

there.

0:07.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Tolesky and West Boss.

0:11.0

Welcome to Syntax's The Podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:17.0

Today we've got a positivity bomb for ya.

0:20.7

We're going to talk about how everything in web development is amazing.

0:25.7

It's very easy to be a Debbie Downer or sort of be down on how lots of things are still

0:34.2

hard.

0:35.2

But in this episode, we're just going to kind of go through the last five, ten years

0:38.6

of web development and talk about how much better everything has become.

0:44.7

We are sponsored by three awesome companies.

0:47.0

First one is FreshBooks, Cloud Accounting.

0:49.2

Second one is Century, Air Exception and Performance Tracking.

0:53.4

And third one is Lynn Node.

0:55.2

They do Linux Cloud hosting and a whole lot more.

0:57.7

We'll talk about all of them partway through the episode.

1:01.1

So Scott, how you doing today?

1:03.5

Feeling positive?

1:04.5

Yeah, I am feeling positive.

1:06.4

Yesterday I got on the roof with the ladder and I took the leaf blow.

1:09.9

Actually, we had so many leaves on our stinking roof that I had to use the snow shovel to

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