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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Supper Club × Why Netlify bought Gatsby, GraphQL Data Layer, and Headless CMS with Dustin Schau

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dustin Schau about Netlify Connect, Gatsby, GraphQL, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:20 Who is Dustin Schau? Dustin Schau (@SchauDustin) Develop and deploy websites and apps in record time | Netlify 02:49 Is Valhalla from Gatsby? How to Source Content from a Headless CMS | Gatsby Valhalla Content Hub | Gatsby Netlify Connect Brings All Content Sources & CMS Apps Together 05:41 Valhalla is now Netlify Connect 09:32 How often should you scrape or cache from another API? 10:36 What about auth? 13:41 Will Netlify Connect be open source or paid? 18:48 Is GraphQL it? Overview | urql Documentation GQty 22:35 What odd data sources are you trying to connect? 26:06 How does Gatsby send out to APIs? 29:00 What CMS should people use? The Markdown CMS | Tina The platform to bring your best ideas to life | Contentful The Composable Content Cloud - Sanity.io 31:22 What do you think of component based CMS? SEO Enterprise Rank Tracker - A Keyword Rank Tracking Tool Like No Other | Nozzle.io 35:36 What are your thoughts on the React ecosystem? 43:33 What’s the future for Gatsby? 46:14 Supper Club questions folivora.ai - Great Tools for your Mac! Noodlesoft – Noodlesoft – Simply Useful Software Dank Mono: The coding typeface for aesthetes DSchau/dotfiles: :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible defaults for macOS development (catered to Node.js) Deploy app servers close to your users · Fly Hono - Ultrafast web framework for the Edges Stream Movies & TV Shows | Plex The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin 56:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Arc Browser Resend React Email Shameless Plugs Netlify Netlify Connect 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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0:00.0

I sure hope you're hungry who I'm starving wash those hands pull up a chair and secure that feedback

0:08.0

Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and Wes Boss attempt to use human language to converse with and pick the brains of other

0:16.0

Developers, I thought there was gonna be food so buckle up and grab that a

0:21.1

Handle because this ride is going to get wild

0:25.7

This is the syntax supper club

0:30.7

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

0:40.8

We've got a good one for you today. We have Dustin Shao on today

0:46.0

To talk about he's obviously the Gatsby co-founder. You probably know that but we're here to talk to him about Gatsby

0:53.0

Maybe reacts over components

0:55.1

They're new like we've there's this kind of theme that's been popping up on the show over the last year or so

1:01.0

Which is like graph QL as a like an intermediary data layer, especially for big companies

1:07.0

We're hopefully we'll talk about quite a bit about that and whatever else pops up welcome Dustin

1:12.0

Thanks so much for coming on. Yeah, super glad to be here

1:14.6

I think people say longtime listener first time caller, right? So

1:18.5

Glad to be here and talk about all of those things wicked

1:21.6

So why don't you give a quick rundown of who you are or what you've done and sort of you come up to where you're where you're at right now?

1:28.9

Yeah, I'll keep it quick

1:31.2

So I would say by trade on my fernin engineer

1:33.5

So I joined Gatsby like five years ago not as the co-founder title

1:36.6

I was kind of like an honorary thing near the end

1:38.7

But I built a lot of teams at Gatsby so helped build the product team because we're success team the engineering team

1:45.3

And then eventually they got acquired by Nellify

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