Hasty Treat - Moving from PHP to Node

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about moving from PHP to Node — pitfalls to avoid, best practices and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 3:43 - Servers need to be started and baby sat 4:48 - There is no built-in file system based routing 6:34 - Some "gotchas" 7:02 - Functional programming 8:17 - Async vs sync 11:11 - Event lifecycles 12:09 - Dependencies 14:17 - Keyed arrays Links Wes’ tweet thread Forever PM2 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, Monday.
0:02.0	Open wide Dev fans.
0:04.0	Get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript,
0:07.0	CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows,
0:10.0	breakdancing, 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 Toroloko Tolinsky.
0:25.0	Oh, welcome to syntax.
0:28.0	On this Monday, hasty, treat, we're going to be talking all about what it takes in some of the pitfalls, the classic
0:35.8	pitfalls of moving from PHP to node to very popular server-side languages, and I'm sure this is something that a lot of
0:44.9	you have done at some point and a lot of you may be doing again in the future
0:49.7	or perhaps you are doing this currently.
0:53.0	My name is Scott Tolinski.
0:54.2	I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado.
0:56.0	With me as always is West Boss.
0:58.5	Hey everybody, I'm excited to talk about this.
1:01.2	I think it's kind of a cool episode. I even asked on
1:03.6	Twitter like if you had learned node after PhD and this is not to say that you
1:08.3	should move from PhD to node but this is just I know there are a handful of
1:12.2	people who have made that switch and it's a pretty big like paradigm I think a big paradigm switch and there's a lot of like gotchas and things that you maybe didn't totally understand. So we're going to attempt to detail what all of those are and
1:26.0	even if you are a node developer there might be a couple of clarifications for what this
1:30.5	beast of node is. Yes, absolutely.
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