Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS typography, and how to quickly get up and running with type systems. 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. 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. Show Notes 05:00 - How do you define type at the start of a new project? 15:03 - How do media queries and screen sizes affect your system? 16:58 - Why are systems in type important? 20:21 - How do you design a type system? Scott’s type system: /* Font Sizes */ --baseFontSize: 1rem; --baseNavSize: 0.64rem; --smallFontSize: 0.8rem; --smallestFontSize: 0.512rem; --xtra-big-ass-heading: 3.052rem; --xtra-heading: 2.441rem; --heading-1: 1.953rem; --heading-2: 1.563rem; --heading-3: 1.25rem; --heading-4: var(--baseFontSize); --heading-5: var(--smallFontSize); --heading-6: 0.64rem; --heading-7: var(--smallestFontSize); Links https://type-scale.com/ 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

18 Tammi 202126min

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes are coming at you live from Reactathon with audience-favorite segments including All I Want for Christmas in React, JS or Nay-s (or Both), Overrated / Underrated, Hot Take Tweets, Listener Questions, and more! Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Magic Bell - Sponsor MagicBell, the embeddable notification inbox - magicbell.io. Use the coupon code SYNTAX to get a 20% discount if you sign up in the next two weeks. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 04:17 - All I Want for Christmas in React is: Suspense for data fetching On mount animations Unmount for me Single file components preventDefault shortcut Input to state mapping 09:45 - JS or Nay-s (or Both) Shout out to Pigeonhole Graphene - 1) Carbon atoms organized in a hexagonal lattice, or 2) An opinionated Python library for building GraphQL Libraries in Python? Floodlight - 1) A super simple syntax highlighter for XHTML documents, or 2) a large light used to illuminate dark outdoor spaces? Toy Machine - 1) An early 2000s skate brand, or 2) A Vue-based GUI for creating state machines? Joplin - 1) A free, open-source note taking and to-do application based on markdown, or 2) A city in the northwestern corner of Missouri? Noco - 1) A JavaScript library that connects to No Code tools including bubble.io, or 2) A smart car battery maintainer & charger? Innr - 1) A smart lightbulb, or 2) A CSS in JS library for selecting parent selectors? Cabkoma Strand - 1) A thermoplastic carbon fiber composite rod used in modern buildings, or 2) A Redux-like state management library for Svelte? Sputnik V - 1) Code name for the upcoming WordPress release with built-in headless CMS mode, or 2) A non-replicating viral vector COVID-19 vaccine? 18:44 - Overrated / Underrated Deno ESM import from URL (no npm) Remix.run Xstate 27:49 - Hot Take Tweets https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1336367385683636225 34:34 - Listener Questions Q: If you recently started doing web dev work, which career path would you choose - startup, FANG, or freelance? Q: TypeScript all the things? Q: What do you do to keep up with the latest and greatest changes in tech - front-end libraries, new languages, etc.? Q: Can you share some exclusive BBQ tips? Q: What do you expect of Blitz.js in the next few years? Q: What’s the first node module you install in a brand new React project besides React itself? Q: Thoughts on using languages other than JS and TS with React like Kotlin? Q: Do you have an approach for optimizing hi-res images that are stored in your back-end, like S3 for your Gatsby website? Links Watch the live recording of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJpxj6T1BQ Formik Mux Syntax Ep 206: State Machines, CSS and Animations with David K Piano Check My Hair - Wes Bos Houdini.How Rust Cloudinary LockPickingLawyer YouTube Channel ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: VS Code color conversion extensions Wes: Acrylic lock picking kit Shameless Plugs Scott: All Courses - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! 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

13 Tammi 202149min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about nothing — null, undefined, void, false, 0, ‘’, NaN, [], {}, never — all sorts of values that could mean the things that do not exist. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 03:35 - Undefined Implicitly nothing A variable declared, but not set is undefined 04:25 - Null Explicitly nothing 04:41 - Null vs Undefined Null has a value of nothing Undefined does not have a value You can set variables to either If you want to set a score variable to nothing, set it to null If you want to un-set a value, set it to undefined == will check if a value is either null or undefined 05:35 - Void In Javascript You can pop void in front of calling a function and it will return undefined (even if that function returns a value) I’ve seen it on links that go nowhere (don’t do this — use a button) To prevent an arrow function from leaking onSubmit="javascript:void()" is a quick-n-easy prevent default on forms In Typescript Void is when you don’t care about what is returned from a function, or if nothing is returned A click handler that goes off and does stuff (side effect) can return void 09:15 - Never (in Typescript) Some functions will never return: Functions that throw errors Functions that have infinite loops Also, unreachable variables have a type of never if(true == false) { let var = 'this will never be true'; } 11:05 - Falsy values 0, -0, 0n false ‘’ (empty string) Empty array Is a value Its .length can be falsy Empty object Is a value Its object.keys(object) length can be falsy (0) 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

11 Tammi 202115min

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about their predictions for 2021! 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. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Show Notes 02:06 - ESM Scott: It’s going to be big Snowpack Wes: Everything going forward should be ESM 05:44 - Wes: Remote work will grow Whole new talent pool opens up Whole new living situations open up 08:23 - Scott: Deno will grow Deno 101 for Web Developers 11:12 - Wes: Tooling will fade away Less setup, more behind the scenes Rome Deno Linter Formatter Transpiler Tester Parcel2 Snowpack Nextjs 14:14 - Scott: Greater usage of other languages to build Javascript esbuild Rust Go 19:35 - Wes: Programming communities will gain traction Github Discussions Forem Circle spectrum Discourse 23:25 - Scott: More WASM Mongo Spline 27:19 - Typescript Wes: Typescript will become more popular Scott: Tooling will get better VS Code 29:37 - React Scott: Scoped CSS in React will evolve SSR and hydration will be better Wes: People will fall out of love with React Or more magic will get added to React 32:52 - Scott: More web component frameworks Stencil 33:17 - Scott: Markdown and mdx-like frameworks will skyrocket in use 33:59 - Wes: Gatsby Hosted GraphQL / SSR / Render on demand Solve the pain of long build times Syntax 308: Gatsby vs Next.js in 2021 Next.js 35:24 - Scott: AR tech will grow Target AR app 36:38 - Wes: AI will become accessible Something as easy as a search result RTX Voice 38:43 - VS Code Scott: It will continue dominating Cloud and shared coding env will become better Figma Wes: Github Codespaces 40:18 - CSS Wes: Color functions More use of built-in features Scoped CSS Scott: People are going to love and use CSS variables Modern CSS Design Systems Course 42:39 - Serverless Scott: Ease of use will get better and better Wes: Netlify Vercel 45:30 - Wes: Enterprise Jamstack will become a thing Cloudflare hosting Next.js Gatsby Sapper SvelteKit 46:30 - PWAs might become more popular Apple will never want you to go around the app store ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Ted Lasso Wes: Neewer Dimmable Bi-Color LED Shameless Plugs Scott: Deno 101 for Web Developers - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! 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

6 Tammi 202154min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about keyboard shortcuts, window management, and how to stay productive. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 03:54 - Karabiner-Elements 06:11 - Better Touch Tool 13:55 - ScreenFlow 17:52 - VS Code Shortcuts 21:20 - Text Expander 23:00 - Clipy Links Davinci Resolve Divvy Uberlayer Elgato Stream Deck iShowU Rocket Clipy source 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

4 Tammi 202126min

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about 2020 in review — predictions, hits and misses, hot tech, what they worked on, and more! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 01:43 - Predictions from 2020 CSS Subgrid CSS Houdini CSS features not supported in older browsers yet Scrollsnap - IE 11 and up. Lot’s of mobile issues. position:sticky - no IE at all NPM tink Installer-less npm Load packages at runtime into a shared cache across all projects Intelligently download the parts you need Yarn PnP / Yarn 2 Hard links to eliminate package duplication Shared cache across all projects Pika & Snowpack Deno React Suspense in more libraries Suspense for Server Rendering Meteor New ownership. v1.9 just dropped with lots of promise for future growth Svelte 3 Vue 3 Apollo 3.0 came out Fine grain cache control Hooks API Custom logic over how things are read and merged New dev tools Next.js 10.0 came out Images! Gatsby A single useQuery (made possible by suspense) Serverless Going to get easier Begin Next.js / Now Functions Headless CMS Thunderdome Sanity WordPress WPGraphQL Keystone Strapi RedwoodJS Blitz.js Cypress End to end testing We got Firefox support in 2020 Modulz Exports to JS component Figma Was already amazing in 2019 Constantly improving and adding new features Can import from Sketch Auto Layout Spline 42:24 - What other tech was hot in 2020? ES Modules is king We’re ready in the browser Node shipped stable Deno has it Snowpack Bundlers and tools Snowpack Vite Rollup made gains Rome GraphQL got way easier Battle of the Types Typescript Flow Reason Rust Wasm Viable to use Starting to exist in more real ways 52:53 - Working from home Remote work is hotter than ever Starlink is coming Webcams - Cam Link Discord Remote Pairing Live Share - I used VS Code with Jed from Keystone Tuple 57:13 - Code libraries React Query Alpine.js Stencil 59:25 - Personal / Professional updates Hard year for productivity Published more than 100 episodes of Syntax Links Syntax 216: Tech To Watch In 2020 Adam Argyle https://ishoudinireadyyet.com/ Syntax 212: Pika Pkg Fred Schott Level Up Tutorials: Deno 101 For Web Developers React Suspense Sapper How to Supercharge Your Productivity with GraphQL Tooling by Scott Tolinski Wes’ Master Gatsby Course Syntax 308: Gatsby vs Next.js in 2021 Syntax 299: Hasty Treat - Bundlers in 2020 https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Innr Bulbs Wes: Pendleton Weighted Blanket Shameless Plugs Scott: All Courses - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! 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

30 Joulu 20201h 6min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how hosting and web services pricing works, and how to figure out what you need, and what you don’t. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 01:55 - Per minute Spin up, do the work, spin down Popular in serverless space Can apply to other types of computing such as graphics, AI, machine learning, etc. 03:49 - By resources Ram CPU Disk space 06:02 - Per “dyno” These are Heroku Linux servers You can add more dynos and make your app faster They scale it for you 08:54 - By bandwidth Sitting files Inbound (ingress) Output 12:24 - By DB calls or entries Databases 14:04 - By users This is more of a Sass thing, but can bleed into hosting too Seat-based - Netlify does something like this 17:23 - By apps Digital Ocean app platform Each app is $5 21:22 - By “work” Cloudinary does transforms on images Mux Links Heroku AWS Digital Ocean Meteor Galaxy Linode Rackspace MediaTemple GoDaddy Bluehost Backblaze B2 Mux GraphQL Github Netlify 1Password Cloudinary Firefox Containers Chrome grouped tabs Brave Digital Ocean app platform Cloudflare Vercel Prisma 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

28 Joulu 202026min

It’s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about new Macs and web development, podcast statistics during COVID, is it still worth it to learn WordPress, dealing with imposter syndrome, and more! Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 00:47 - Roch Tolinski — You guys are doing a downtown job!!! 02:45 - Yesterday Apple announced their new Macs. They seem pretty sweet, but I was curious, what does this mean for the world of web developers? Will my current apps slowly stop being supported? Will things like brew and node and npm still work on those new machines? Would it be smart to start learning new programs to be prepared for the transition? 10:20 - Hey, great show! No really, great show. What is better for working at home/the office, iMac or MacBook Pro? 13:25 - What are your thoughts on Remix? And has your listenership gone down since COVID-19? I have heard that less people listen to podcasts now because they no longer commute. 19:33 - What is your approach to testing for e-commerce sites? I am about to launch a client’s online store and I’m sick with worry that a simple plugin upgrade will impact the store, and that I won’t know about it till a disgruntled customer complains. 24:57 - I’m getting into web development through college (just trying for an associate's to start) and I’m noticing the intro courses are very hard to get into. I’ve been self-teaching so I kind of feel like I’m ahead. The intro to computing logic (basic algorithms) teacher teaches very slowly and forces us to use an awful software called Raptor to create pseudo programs. I’ve been asking to actually use a language rather than the software but the teacher doesn’t have enough programming knowledge to grade the actual language assignments. I feel like this course is a step back from what I already know. I was just wondering if you guys have any tips on getting through the grueling “required” courses? 31:04 - So it's been announced now that Sapper will never hit 1.0, and instead Svelte core functionality is being expanded and Sapper is being deprecated. I know you all don’t have any inside info, but kind of wondering how Scott feels about this and what he’s doing with his Sapper site in the nebulous time between the big announcement and the release of the next Svelte version? 35:17 - I’m currently working through a full-stack Udemy course to make the switch away from my day job to try freelance web development. I want to start taking on some easier freelance jobs to help make a little extra money and build my portfolio, and I see WordPress recommended as an easy way to do this. My question is, would it be worth undertaking the learning process to pick up some PHP and learn basic WordPress development so that I can start freelancing now, or would I be better served just focusing on HTML, CSS and JS and waiting until I broaden my understanding of these languages before I start taking on some preliminary clients? 39:22 - If I plan to use WordPress as a headless CMS, how do I make sure the WordPress site itself is not publicly accessible? As far as I know, there’s no “API-only” mode for WordPress (like there is for, say, Rails or Laravel) and if I install a WordPress site on a server, it’s going to be discoverable online. I’d hate to have people find the WordPress API site and think it was my website — or for my static site to have to compete with my WordPress API for prominence in search engines. How do people ensure this doesn’t happen? 42:01 - If I have a Vue.js website running on WordPress, how could I dynamically insert Vue components from the WordPress backend (e.g. have a post that inserts a Vue.js poll component)? I don’t want to recompile every time. 44:24 - I’ve heard you mention previously that you have used WordPress to host sites in the past. I’m keen to learn how you have created your own themes for those sites. Did you write your own PHP, etc, or is there another way? I’m hoping to learn a bit more about developing for WordPress as it’s a skill I’d like to have in my back pocket, and would love to hear about any resources you would recommend for this. 47:51 - I’ve been a web developer for over 15 years. Unfortunately, I had to leave web development for personal reasons. I have a lot of great skills. Unfortunately, because I’ve been out of the game for so long my resume is full of holes. All the current experience I have is project-based or freelance-based. I do not have the ability to show long-term projects or anything stable on my resume. I’m trying to get my first job back in the field after my long absence. It has proven to be nearly impossible. I am listening to your Tasty Treat about certifications and certified education. I agree that certifications do not show actual skill. I also agree that just because I do not have longevity and consistency on my resume that I do not have the skills to pay the bills. How can I get my first job back in the field? I am working on small projects to highlight my skills but no one really seems to care. What would you do? 53:36 - I am currently in a food service job, but would love to move into the dev/design field. I have a year of experience in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS/Sass, as well as React, Gatsby, Next, and Node ( thank you both for helping with those ). I have a small amount of experience with freelance web design and development, but feel I am greatly underselling myself ($150 for a Gatsby site built for a friend and less than $100 for a couple Fiverr gigs). I have seen freelance work out well for my friends and family, but I am terrified of having to find clients. I have a hard time valuing my work and fold when money is brought up. There is always a part of me that says to just shoot high and have them talk the price down, but I hate the confrontation. How should I go about finding my first $1,000 client and how can I show the client that my work is worth more without talking about the tech involved? Links https://isapplesiliconready.com/ https://github.com/ThatGuySam/doesitarm https://www.electronjs.org/blog/apple-silicon#how-does-it-work Missive VS Code Screenflow Figma Sketch Brew MongoDB iTerm2 Hyper Davinci Resolve https://remix.run/ React Router ExpressionEngine Keystone.js Advanced Custom Fields Dreamweaver Sapper Svelte https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-the-deal-with-sveltekit Rollup https://www.snowpack.dev/ Udemy Laravel https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/stop-search-indexing-for-netlify-deploy-previews-and-branch-deploys Vercel Netlify Syntax 297: Hasty Treat - Certifications? Government Specified JavaScript Skills? Design is a Job by Mike Monteiro ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: 1: Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen 2: Q Clearance: The Hunt for QAnon Wes: truLOCAL Shameless Plugs Scott: Deno 101 For Web Developers - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! 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

23 Joulu 20201h 5min