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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Potluck - Working on a Team × Dealing with Imposter Syndrome × Animating on the Web × Icon Libraries × Demanding Clients

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about working on a team, dealing with imposter syndrome, animating on the web, using the table element, landing pages for apps, and building full stack apps with NextJS. 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 01:05 The mustard bandit podcast 02:54 How can Developers work with designers and Product managers seamlessly? 06:37 How do I deal with imposter syndrome? 10:46 Any good coffee shops in Denver? 17 of Denver’s Best Coffee Shops 11:38 Do you use Table element or CSS Grid for tabular data? 13:18 How do you manage animations without a library? Greensock 17:05 Sponsor: Sentry 18:01 What do you use for icon libraries? Icons8 Font Awesome Icons React Icons Flat Icons 25:10 How do you unregister the service worker to clear site data? Syntax 346 - Selling T Shirts 29:15 Sponsor: Sanity.io 30:47 Since NextJS has API routes, could you build a full-stack application using just NextJS? 35:41 Do you keep your landing pages and home pages seperate from your app? 37:35 Where’s the line for moving something hosted on a developer server to moving it to production? CodePen Replit Netlify 41:44 How do you deal with ignorant or demanding clients? 45:54 As a JS/TS developer, which other language should I learn to compliment my skills? Rust PHP 50:58 Sponsor: Freshbooks 51:49 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× 58:41 Shameless Plugs ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Glass Drinking Straws Wes: Lawn Lift Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Beginner Javascript 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

Welcome to syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:16.2

We've got another potluck for you today, two potlucks in a row.

0:20.9

What could possibly be going on?

0:23.0

Well, when we have two potlucks in a row, it means life is bonkers right now.

0:28.6

We bought a new house, my wife and I bought a new house, and then we had to sell ours immediately

0:34.8

after.

0:35.8

So that was a bit of chaos.

0:37.5

And then immediately after that got very sick or during that got very sick and I got

0:43.7

bronchitis and everybody's on meds, so excuse the the raspy voice right now, but we're

0:51.9

on the mend.

0:52.9

We're getting better.

0:53.9

So we got another potluck for you today.

0:54.9

And also we've got some awesome questions.

0:56.5

So it's pretty stoked about that.

0:58.3

Yeah.

0:59.3

And in addition, I had a death in the family.

1:01.0

So I had to travel and go to a funeral and by the time, yeah, I was like, you get back

1:05.5

Sunday and then there's Monday and it was just like, yeah, I don't think I can record

1:09.2

today.

1:10.2

Like I am cooked.

1:11.2

Yeah.

1:12.2

And you said you had jury duty too?

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