Hasty Treat - Should you install a dependency or roll your own?

Hasty Treat - Should you install a dependency or roll your own?

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about installing dependencies vs rolling your own - the advantages and disadvantages, and how to know when to do either. 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 replayer and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free over at https://logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 2:15 - Reasons To roll your own Learning Experience Fun Features Add your own features Lightweight - only use what you need 8:08 - Reasons not to roll your own Battle Tested Actually Tested Time Money Experience 11:27 - Fork Something needs extra features Upstream your changes 13:10 - Some Examples Fetch + function vs Axios Date functions vs Stack Overflow copy/paste Lodash vs your own - try it with map/reduce/filter first, but lots of cases need Lodash Links React PowerPlug Lodash Axios Stack Overflow 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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982: Bots Are Ruining the Internet

982: Bots Are Ruining the Internet

Wes and Scott talk about the latest dev news: Node enabling Temporal by default, OpenAI acquiring OpenClaw, TypeScript 6, new TanStack and Deno releases, the explosion of AI agent platforms, and more....

25 Feb 49min

981: Browsers Are Finally Catching Up (Interop 2026)

981: Browsers Are Finally Catching Up (Interop 2026)

Scott and Wes unpack Interop 2026 and the browser features finally aligning across engines, from container style queries and anchor positioning to scroll-driven animations and view transitions. They b...

23 Feb 51min

980: AI Coding Explained

980: AI Coding Explained

Wes and Scott talk about the state of AI coding in 2026—from editors and models to agents, skills, slash commands, MCPs, and more. They unpack what these things actually do, how they overlap, and how ...

18 Feb 52min

979: WebMCP: New Standard to Expose Your Apps to AI

979: WebMCP: New Standard to Expose Your Apps to AI

Scott and Wes unpack WebMCP, a new standard that lets AI interact with websites through structured tools instead of slow, bot-style clicking. They demo it, debate imperative vs declarative APIs, and s...

16 Feb 16min

978: Should A New Coder Use AI?

978: Should A New Coder Use AI?

Wes and Scott answer your questions about AI agents, learning to code with AI, pagination patterns, skilling up from outdated tech stacks, balancing side projects with family life, real-world hacking ...

11 Feb 1h 2min

977: We built a CSS Challenge platform

977: We built a CSS Challenge platform

Scott and Wes break down how they built SynHax, the real-time CSS Battle app powering the upcoming Mad CSS tournament. From SvelteKit and Zero to diffing algorithms, sync conflicts, and a last-minute ...

9 Feb 41min

976: Pi - The AI Harness That Powers OpenClaw W/ Armin Ronacher & Mario Zechner

976: Pi - The AI Harness That Powers OpenClaw W/ Armin Ronacher & Mario Zechner

Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher and Mario Zechner about PI, a minimalist agent harness powering tools like OpenClaw. They unpack why Bash is “all you need,” the risks of agents, workflow adapta...

4 Feb 57min

975: What’s Missing From the Web Platform?

975: What’s Missing From the Web Platform?

Scott and Wes run through their wishlist for the web platform, digging into the UI primitives, DOM APIs, and browser features they wish existed (or didn’t suck). From better form controls and drag-and...

2 Feb 50min

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