Hasty Treat - Picking the Stack for uses.tech - Gatsby, React, Context, Styled Components
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Wes’ new website, uses.tech — the stack he chose for building it, as well as what it does and how to use it!
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Show Notes
2:23 - What is uses.tech?
5:33 - The stack
8:13 - Avatars
10:43 - Filtering
15:51 - Github actions
19:25 - Favicon
21:30 - Search
22:03 - Hosting
Links
- uses.tech
- awesome-uses repo
- Gatsby
- React
- Gatsby Node API
- Clearbit API
- unavatar
- Now.sh
- webserv.nl
- country-emoji
- Andrew Luca
- joi
- Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks
- Netlify
- Algolia
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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| 0:00.0 | Monday, Monday, Monday, |
| 0:02.0 | Open wide Dev fans. |
| 0:04.0 | Get ready to stuff your face |
| 0:06.0 | with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, |
| 0:09.0 | get workflows, |
| 0:10.0 | 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 Toroloko Tolinsky. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Syntax on this Monday, hasty treat. |
| 0:30.0 | We're going to be talking about this neat little site that West Boss, my awesome co-host put together. |
| 0:37.0 | This is on uses.tech, so check it out if you haven't been there, uses. Tech. |
| 0:42.7 | We're gonna be doing the entire episode |
| 0:44.3 | talking about the stack that Wes used |
| 0:47.4 | to make this neat little site |
| 0:49.2 | and what this site does is it shows you |
| 0:51.9 | what different members in the tech community are using. |
| 0:55.8 | My name is Scott Tolinsky. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado, and with me as always is West Boss. |
| 1:02.0 | Hey everybody. |
| 1:03.0 | How's it going? |
| 1:04.0 | Good. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm excited to talk about this uses website. |
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