The Syntax Giveaway Site - Codes, Bots, Tech Stack and More!

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Technology, News, Tech News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the tech stack they used to create the Syntax giveaway site for the Sentry + Syntax announcement week. What were the features of the site, how’d they generate proper codes, and how’d they stop developers from hacking the system? Show Notes 00:07 How to do a giveaway and distribute it? 04:26 Building in the spirit of Syntax 05:44 The tech stack SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript Syntax × Sentry MMXXIII | Product Blog • Sentry PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform My Places - Google My Maps sveltekit-basic-auth/hooks.server.ts at main · ghostdevv/sveltekit-basic-auth Voucherify: Free Random Codes Generator 09:48 Hosted on Vercel Vercel 13:04 What are the features of the site? 19:10 Generating the codes properly 26:48 Releasing locked coupon codes 29:13 Client to server side connections 32:56 Stopping developers from gaming the giveaway 46:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) - IMDb Wes: The Strong National Museum of Play Shameless Plugs Scott: Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software | Sentry 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
0:05.2	treats out there. Strap yourself in and get ready. Here is Scott
0:08.6	Tolesky and West Boss. Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web
0:14.1	development treats out there. Today we are going to be talking about the
0:18.0	Syntax swag giveaway site. So if you didn't hear Syntax
0:24.0	join into sentry and as part of our celebration we gave away 600 t-shirts,
0:30.8	50 skate decks, 50 yetis and that's it. Actually I think we're going to
0:36.7	stuff some stickers in there as well and it was kind of fun because we're
0:40.3	we're saying okay 600 is a lot of t-shirts but there is
0:44.4	many many more than that that listen to this podcast. So we needed a way to
0:50.4	first of all like how do we give it away to people who have been like long
0:55.3	time supporters of the podcast like how do we make sure they get something
0:59.2	at least enough of them and then second like how do we make sure that it's not
1:02.8	just like first come first serve. So we landed on this idea of having
1:09.9	codes right? Yeah yeah well because it was there's a lot of really unique
1:14.8	challenges to put in front of us here and we're typically when we first
1:19.2	looked at this project I think the biggest challenge for us was like how are
1:22.4	we going to distribute all this stuff? We're going to have to ship it to
1:24.9	West's house. This is like when we learned that like oh now being a part of
1:30.1	a bigger organization like now those problems become
1:34.0	less big problem because we have access to distribution centers and
1:37.7	different types of things that we didn't have access to before. So now the
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