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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Ask Us Anything!

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes are doing an AMA — answering questions about self-employment, time-management, course creation, Clubhouse, and more! Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. 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. Show Notes 03:41 - What do you miss about NOT being self-employed? What are some UNEXPECTED perks of being self-employed? 05:47 - Hypothetically, what would a LinkedIn recruiter need to say to pull you away from your current development work, and possibly even the podcast? 09:08 - What percentage of your time do you guys spend doing work for clients vs your own courses/projects? 10:04 - Do you still do most of your work yourself, or do you outsource some parts of it? (work can be anything related to your business, not just making the courses) 12:48 - Could you all talk about protected/private routes in Next.js? I’m coming from create react app type routing. 16:07 - What would be doing for a living if not a developer? 17:50 - What do you think about Clubhouse? Are you guys planning to talk over there some time? 24:18 - Vue or React? Which do you think will be the top? And should developers learn both? Links https://twitter.com/aaronendsley/status/1361375032342110210 Svelte 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

Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with Javascript CSS

0:07.4

Node module barbecue tips get workflows break dancing soft skills web development the hastiest the

0:13.5

Carrazius the tastiest web development treats coming in hot. Here is West

0:19.3

Barracuda boss and Scott L. Toro Lungo to Linsky

0:25.2

Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about

0:33.2

Anything us ourselves who knows what we have asked on Twitter to ask us anything and we hope this is going to be a little bit different than our

0:40.4

Potluck questions because the follow questions kind of your towards maybe web stuff

0:44.2

This is going to be a little bit more fun or or different kinds of types of questions and we're used to answering

0:49.2

So my name is Scott Lungo. I'm a developer from Denver Colorado and with me as always is the West boss

0:56.0

Hey, everybody said it for these questions. Yeah me too with us as always in addition to West bosses two sponsors

1:06.0

Now these two sponsors are prismic and log rocket prismic is the headless CMS

1:13.3

Content center of your dreams and a log rocket is the of your dreams

1:18.9

Visual testing error handling software platform of your dreams. Do you want to talk about prismic and I'll talk about log rocket?

1:25.9

Yes, prismic is the headless CMS, you know about it

1:29.6

We've been talking about it one thing. I'm going to talk about right now is their

1:34.6

Dynamic layout feature. So they have this thing that's called content slices it the way that I think about it is that you make your component

1:42.5

Let's say you've got a person component and that person component has a name an email address a bio a photo and maybe a couple other pieces of metadata

1:53.7

What you would then do is you make a slice that's called a person and then you're able to

1:59.2

Just like your components can go anywhere you you're able to pull in these slices

2:03.3

Into anywhere that will accept slices. So maybe you have a customer page and then but maybe you also have a team page

2:10.8

And you want to be able to use that person component in both of those pages. It's it's like a little page builder

2:15.9

Not little it's it's like a page builder that you can just click together all of the different pieces of content that you want

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