Hasty Treat - Spicy Takeout - PHP Is Good and We’re Just Re-Creating It

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how much modern web development has taken from PHP! 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. 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 03:56 - Why much of modern web development is just recreating PHP Everyone loves to hate on PHP, but modern Web dev takes a lot from PHP 05:44 - Mixing templating and logic We do this with JSX 07:39 - Each request has its own scope 08:57 - Massive standard lib Format a date? No sweat! Image resizing? Sure! Audio bindings? Sure! 10:16 - URL-based routing Next.js pages Serverless functions 11:13 - Server-rendered Hotwire 11:38 - $_GET, $_POST, are just available Next.js hooks 12:29 - Variable interpolation 12:59 - All-in-one frameworks Laravel did it CakePHP CodeIgnighter 13:32 - Direct DB access SQL statements 14:37 - Why do people hate PHP? WordPress Inconsistent API Their first code was PHP and they sucked PHP has come a long way It used to not be safe Blocking by default - no async/await 17:48 - Why is JS still better? Shared code between frontend and backend Single language Huge ecosystem (could be a con) Links Syntax 267: Hasty Treat - Turbolinks + Server Generated HTML + JS Sprinkles https://vuejs.org/ https://www.hey.com/ 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 node module barbecue tips get work flow break dancing soft skills web development the hastiest the
0:13.5	Carrazius the tastiest web development treats coming in hot. Here is West
0:19.2	Barracuda boss and Scott L. Toro Lugo to Linsky
0:26.7	Welcome to syntax in this
0:30.5	Spicy take out we're gonna be talking about how the web is kind of just come back around to what we used to be doing with PHP and
0:38.3	How we're just recreating most of it in JavaScript and what we mean by that and my name is Scott to Linsky
0:45.3	I'm a developer from Denver Colorado and with me as always is the spicy
0:50.3	West badass boss
0:54.1	Spicy take out I was just like kind of like writing notes for this one
0:57.5	I was like this is be a funny segment. I don't know if we have a whole lot of spicy takeouts in us because Scott and I are not super opinionated
1:04.5	Yeah, we're pretty chill. Well something that you're not necessarily super opinionated
1:08.4	But like what's a spicy take that you got like is there a is there a takeout that we you could do?
1:12.7	Well, I've been doping in pretty spicy on the reactants felt stuff
1:16.7	That's true. I think we were trying to come up with names or what a segment like this could even be called and
1:23.5	Honestly, when you brought spicy takeout to the table today
1:27.1	I was pretty shocked because that was great. That's very good. It's perfect. I was joking that it's dim mach, which is the death touch
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