Potluck - Libraries vs Frameworks × Firefox × Career Advice For Teenagers × Who Would Win a Thumb War × More!

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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It’s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about libraries vs frameworks, Firefox, who would win a thumb war, and more! Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. 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. Show Notes 01:37 - Q: Why does React bill itself as a library instead of a framework? 03:14 - Q: Are y’all still using Firefox now that it has been six months? 06:30 - Q: Is it possible to do a hasty treat regarding the Brave browser? Would love to hear your opinion on the tech, view on the approach and why we could need another browser in 2020. Peace! 09:34 - Q: Who would win in a thumb war, Wes or Scott? 10:56 - Q: What are your thoughts on XState and state machines for managing state in apps? I’ve been super interested in trying to use it, eager to hear what you both think. Also, wondering if you’d have any recommendations on how to use it with Apollo, whether to use XState’s internal context to store app state, or use the Apollo cache. 14:53 - Q: Should I start a new project with jQuery or React? 17:21 - Q: I’m a young teen (60 different pages? How do you organize the REST-ful API? How do you resolve dependencies between API endpoint 1 and API endpoint 2? How do you share information between multiple components in VUE-State-Management? 42:44 - Q: I’ve done Wes’ NextJS course and he uses Styled Components instead of Next’s own styled-jsx. What are your opinions on styled-jsx, and why you do (or do not) use it? Links React Firefox Brave CodeSandbox VS Code in the browser CodePen Source Making Design Patterns Figma Auto Layout ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: 1: Myths and Legends Podcast 2: Fictional Podcast Wes: Parchment Paper Baking Sheets Shameless Plugs Scott: Sapper For Beginners - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Beginner JavaScript Course - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! 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	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.4	Welcome to Syntax. Today we've got a potluck for you talking about libraries versus
0:15.6	frameworks. Are we still using Firefox? Who would win in a thumb more?
0:20.0	Should I use J-quarie or react? Is it worth time learning design patterns?
0:24.8	All kinds of really good questions. We are going to answer them for you today.
0:27.8	If you have any of your own potluck questions, go to syntax.
0:31.0	FM and there's a button in the top right hand corner that allows you to submit it
0:35.0	keep sending them we love doing them you love listening to them today we are
0:39.2	sponsored by two awesome companies prismic which is a headless CMS and Fresh Books, which is Cloud
0:44.8	accounting. How you doing today, Scott? I'm doing good. I'm working on some fun stuff with
0:51.7	video. I'm working on some new course stuff. I'm just feeling good about my coding and getting a little bit more sleep now. So I'm just, I feel like a better head space overall, I think. How about you. Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing really good. I've been I'm building a Gatsby course and I'm just flying right along it really enjoying it and we're up here still at my cottage and everything is blooming. We're seeing all kinds of animals. There's a crow that has a blue jay as a buddy and they hang out together all day. It's really awesome. That's cool. Yeah, very cool. It's funny how like everybody over 30
1:26.1	turned into bird people during the coronavirus. Yeah it turned into like a lawn
1:31.6	I mean I've always kind of been a lawn person, but I'm definitely like spending a lot of time in my yard.
1:36.0	All right, first question from Code Finity, why does React Bill itself as a library instead of a framework?
1:42.0	So the real answer here is the fact that itself as a library instead of a framework.
1:42.8	So the real answer here is the fact that if you've used
1:46.1	other frameworks, especially things like angular
1:49.0	or I would go as far as view,
1:51.2	definitely Sveld because Sveld does a lot of this stuff for you.
1:54.3	It really depends on how much the thing does for you, right?
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