Potluck - Handling Auth × Are Web Dev Real Developers? × Handling Git Conflicts × Converting PNG to Box-Shadow × Bad Docs vs No Docs × Making Shopify Headless

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about handling auth, are web dev real developers, handling Git conflicts, converting PNG to Box-Shadow, bad docs vs no docs, making Shopify headless, and more. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:32 Fool’s winter 03:25 How do you handle authentication in an app? 09:42 Responding to people who don’t think developers are real developers? 12:21 How do you handle git conflicts in package-lock.json and/or yarn.lock files? 14:42 I built a small project which converts .png images to CSS box-shadow values. Img to Box Shadow 16:37 January 19th, 2038 at 03:14:08 is the end of epoch Office Space 20:31 Sponsor: Sentry 22:44 Should I begin to add PropTypes to my packages and projects? 25:59 What’s worse: bad documentation or no documentation? 27:37 How do you find the motivation or discipline to follow through in side projects? 29:48 I need to take an existing Shopify site and make it headless - what should I use? 37:55 Sponsor: Sanity 39:18 You have a ?token= query param and some token value for it. Could you explain a bit more on what is that for? 44:05 Have you thought about selling Syntax.fm shirts? 46:05 Can I migrate my Express routes to Next.js’ API and get the same httpOnly cookies workflow? 52:03 Sponsor: Freshbooks 52:52 Sick Picks ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Okeeffe’s Lip Balm Wes: Okeef’s Working Hands Level Up Course Drop - https://youtu.be/LATf_lVYoMQ?t=829 Shameless Plugs Scott: Level Up Course Drop Wes: Wes Bos Course player update 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	Welcome to syntax. This is the podcast with the tastiest potluck treats today. We've
0:16.3	caught a potluck episode for you today. It's where you submit the questions and we will
0:20.9	answer them for you. If you've got a question, you'd like us to answer. Make sure you go
0:24.4	to syntax.fm. There's a button in the top right hand corner to ask a potluck question,
0:29.6	smash that button, put your question in the box and we will answer on the show. We've
0:34.8	got some really good ones for you today talking about authentication and permissions levels,
0:40.7	some interesting ones about like headless e-commerce. That's always a question that we
0:45.8	have and there's a lot of questions about that. How do you do cookies in next jazz? And
0:53.9	all kinds of really, really interesting stuff. So we are sponsored by three awesome companies
0:57.8	today. Sentry does air exception and performance tracking sanity does your structure content
1:04.8	CMS and fresh books, cloud accounting will talk about all of them partway through the episode.
1:09.9	My name is Wes boss. I'm a developer from Canada with me as always, Mr. Scott Talinsky.
1:15.2	How are you doing today, Scott? Hey, I'm doing pretty good. Yeah, I don't know. Nothing
1:21.5	too wild. We got a bunch of snow here. So, you know, feels kind of cold. But, you
1:26.6	know, I'm doing okay. Yeah, just hanging out. How about you? That's good, good, good.
1:31.0	We are had just what they call it fool's winter here in Canada where like you get one warm
1:37.5	day and then like like my wife's like, let's go for a picnic in the park and then like
1:41.9	by like four o'clock, you're like, oh, it's actually still freezing. You gotta like,
1:45.1	gotta be careful with that. But it's nice is all the snow melts like we get this like
1:49.4	ice pack on like everywhere. I'm sure you get it as well. But it's just like frozen
1:55.6	tundra, disgusting. Everything is brown like and then there's mud coming through and
2:00.7	the dogs walk through it and it's like just like the worst part of winter. So, it's really
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