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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Potluck × Meeting IRL × SSG vs SSR × Domain Privacy

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this Potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about meeting IRL, bookmarks, SSG vs SSR, domain privacy, deploying monorepos, 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 00:08 Welcome 01:20 Weather updates 02:21 How often have you gotten together in real life? Jamstack Conf Reactathon 05:33 What are people using to bookmark sites? Arc Browser 09:03 When not to use Static Site Generation (SSG), and when to use Server-side Rendering (SSR)? Svelte Kit 13:53 How do you do correct error handling to catch everything? Sentry.io 21:13 Sponsor: Sentry 22:50 Is there any benefit to using getters and setters in classes set them over plain methods? 27:47 Will there ever be a js framework that can SSR on a non-JS backend? Render pnpm 32:40 Have either of you thought about learning and teaching Python or Django? 34:56 What is your opinion on purchasing “Domain Privacy” with each domain? 37:49 Sponsor: Sanity 38:44 Domain privacy continued 39:22 How you deploy monorepo packages? Tanstack Vite 43:48 As a member of a non margin group should I avoid applying for jobs when they say they welcome applicants who are of a marginalized group to support diversity? 46:12 When would you, if ever, choose good-old React over something like Next JS? 53:24 Sponsor: Freshbooks 54:16 Is it preferred to import via absolute reference or relative reference? 00:23 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Air Compressor Wes: Blue Flush Cutter Mini Diagonal Cutting Pliers Side Cutter Nippers Wire Cutter Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials 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. Here is Scott Tillinski and West Boss.

0:11.0

Welcome to syntax episode 534. That's something we've never done before. I say the

0:17.0

episode number up front. We've got a potluck for you today. Some really, really good questions about

0:22.9

arrow handling. We had like three questions about arrow handling all in like a week and a half.

0:28.0

So excited to jump into that. SSR versus static site generation. When would you use react over

0:35.2

next JS? When will you import relative versus absolute files in modules? All kinds of good stuff.

0:43.1

We're sponsored today by three awesome companies. Century. They do error exception and performance

0:49.5

monitoring. Sanity. The content management solution for your app website business. You name it

0:57.0

and fresh books. Glad accounting. We'll talk about all them partway through the episode.

1:01.7

Mr. Scott Tillinski. How are you doing today?

1:03.9

Do good. Good. Man. It's been leaf central over here. And I'm just been enjoying the fall

1:10.2

weather getting to crunch those leaves up. We had just like a really pleasant day where the kids were

1:15.5

playing in the cardboard box fort in the backyard. And I'm working on these and you guys have

1:21.9

a super warm weekend as well. It's pretty warm. You know, it's been pretty warm here.

1:26.7

So we haven't had very much chilly weather in the mornings. It's been cold, but it gets to like

1:32.5

70 sunny every day. So it's been it's been pretty consistently 70s and sunny. So we had,

1:39.2

oh, that's amazing. We had we went up to our cottage and it had already snowed

1:45.8

up there. And then we had a 22 degree day, which is 72, which was like unhush for that.

1:54.1

When I was a kid, like maybe one in every five, you'd have you'd have to wear your winter coat

2:00.3

under your Halloween costume. And then you go up north four hours. It's getting more cold.

2:05.2

Yeah, I'm getting right. We had a great, great weekend as well.

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