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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Bike Shedding

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about bike shedding - issues that are hotly debated, but may not matter that much in the long run. 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 https://logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 3:03 - What is Bike Shedding? Technical disputes over minor, marginal issues conducted while more serious ones are being overlooked. The implied image is of people arguing over what color to paint the bike shed while the house is not finished. 4:39 - Tabs vs spaces Two spaces 5:50 - Single vs double quotes Single in JS, double in HTML 7:05 - Semicolons or not Semicolons 9:01 - Grouping/ordering CSS properties Wes: Format Scott: Alphabetical 12:35 - var vs let vs const Scott: const for life — let when needed Wes: const by default — change to let when needed 14:24 - Default vs named exports Use both Mix-n-match 15:58 - Should designers code? If interested, sure 17:58 - Which front-end framework Whichever one best suits your needs 19:30 - Vim/Emacs vs Atom/VS Code/Sublime VS Code 21:53 - Small perf wins Micro optimization often aren’t needed 25:14 - Browser support If you’re required to support it, then support it 25:47 - Block formatting Function block Else on a new line vs else after block 29:07 - Trailing comma Links Law of Triviality React Vue.js AngularJS Ember.js Vim Emacs Atom Sublime VS Code 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

Transcript

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Monday, Monday, Monday,

0:02.0

Open wide Dev fans.

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Get ready to stuff your face

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with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,

0:09.0

get workflows,

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break dancing, soft skills, web development,

0:12.0

the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

0:18.1

Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloco, Tolinsky.

0:25.0

Welcome to Syntax.

0:27.0

In this episode, we are going to be Bike Shedding, which, for those of you who don't know,

0:32.0

it's basically about arguing about things that don't matter.

0:36.8

So we're going to be getting people really spicy because let me tell you, Wes even just

0:42.1

mention that we're going to be tweeting this episode and it started

0:46.1

some general spiciness. So this is the best way to describe it here. We're going to give you some very spicy bits in this episode.

0:55.0

We're going to have a lot of fun doing it.

0:57.0

This is going to be a lot of fun.

1:00.0

My name is Scott Tolinsky.

1:01.0

I'm a full-stack Dev from Denver,, Colorado and with me as always is West Boss.

1:06.0

What's up everybody?

1:07.0

Sub West.

1:08.0

West is also a full stack developer from Hamilton, Ontario.

1:11.0

And what we're going to be doing today again is bike

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