WTF Are Signals And Why Is Everyone So Hot On Them All Of The Sudden?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Signals - what are signals and why is everyone talking about them suddenly? Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:40 Chipping away at projects 03:20 WTF are signals? Signals Framework reimagined for the edge! - Qwik SolidJS · Reactive Javascript Library Zone Vanilla 09:03 What are the boundaries on signals? 10:49 Why are signals so popular now? 15:57 When wouldn’t you use signals? 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	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready to stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The craziest! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:27.0	Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about
0:32.0	signals. And signals are something that you may have seen pop up in the JavaScript
0:37.0	space somewhat recently here. People have been talking about them with a new
0:42.0	crop of frameworks using them as their default reactive model. And we actually
0:46.0	got a question in from our potluck saying WTF are signals and why is everyone so
0:52.0	hot on them all of the sudden? So we will be talking about exactly that. My name is
0:57.0	Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver. And with me as always is Wes, the
1:04.0	signal boss. I was trying to come up with something. Couldn't come by the thing out of the spot.
1:08.0	The bat, I don't know, there's something probably something with bat signal there or
1:12.0	similar. It's got to be something. Wes, how's it going, my man?
1:16.0	It's going pretty good. Just had a pretty nice weekend working on the gym at our
1:21.0	house. We're almost done. I'm so, so close to be doing it. It's funny. I've been
1:26.0	chipping away at it for like an hour, hour and a half every night. Well, not every
1:31.0	night, but probably four or five nights a week. And it's amazing how much progress
1:37.0	you can get done in just an hour and an hour and a half a night. And I think
1:41.0	that the same goes for web development as well. People are always like, I have no
1:45.0	time to do anything. And it's like, well, it's taking up a lot of my life right
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