917: AI Tools You Should Know

It’s another Potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about web components, gear, Docker, web dev frameworks, golden handcuffs, browser testing, SSR React, code prediction, and more! 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 04:08 - Is there a mechanism for exporting a React/Vue/Svelte component as a web component? 11:42 - You guys chat a lot about your sweet gear and desk setups. As a newcomer to web development it’s all a little expensive for me to mimic what you have; at least before I’ve learned enough to justify investing in better equipment. My question is: what are the minimum specs (laptop/monitor/etc) you would recommend a beginner just starting out in webdev? 22:35 - I rarely, if ever, hear you guys or any other web dev related podcast mentioned Python, Flask, Django etc. Do you have any experience with those frameworks and can you give any thoughts you may have on Python as a language for back end development. 26:47 - What do you think of using Docker containers to do development work? I have seen a couple articles talking about it, but it doesn’t seem super common to use since few GitHub projects have Dockerfiles in their repos. 32:19 - I’ve often heard you two talk about the idea of the “golden handcuffs”, where a job pays well, but the employees are miserable. I think I might be in that situation right now. I’ve tried organizing my day so my time is better segmented. I can’t tell if this is the natural progression of a developer advancing in their career and I just need to adjust better, or if I need to make a change. Any advice or tips you have to better manage time or decide what’s next would be much appreciated. 37:28 - When it comes to desktop browser testing, is there a difference anymore is browser rendering engines? Do most (if not all) browsers use Google’s rendering engine? 39:20 - As someone who got into the industry relatively recently (around 2019), component frameworks and single-page applications were my introduction to web development. I am now really interested in learning more about the “traditional” way of doing things, 100% server-rendered. What’s my recourse here? Ruby on Rails, Laravel, something else? Is there an agreed upon “modern” way to do a server-rendered monolithic app? 43:43 - I wish to ask the kind of plug-in, extensions or stand-alone software you use for code prediction and to help you code faster. I personally use Kite and VS Code’s intellisense, it seems to get it wrong more times than right. Do both of you have any recommendation? 47:18 - Is there any benefit to using prop types in TypeScript for React projects? 48:14 - I’m currently planning to build an audio-focused app (maybe even more than one actually), and I’ve been wondering how you would solve the problem of storing and fetching (on-demand) hundreds, perhaps thousands, of little audio-files. I’ve got some deep reservations against AWS, although I’m somewhat familiar with it - the complexity, hidden (and hard to estimate) costs etc. I’m thinking about Digital Ocean or something like that. Would it be too hard to implement things like caching and such yourself. Any thoughts? Links https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-to-webcomponent https://medium.com/dev-channel/a-netflix-web-performance-case-study-c0bcde26a9d9 LearnNode.com Transistor.fm ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: A Death In Cryptoland Podcast Wes: Affinity Designer Shameless Plugs Scott: Svelte Kit - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Beginner JavaScript Notes 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 Juni 20211h 2min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery)! 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. 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 05:40 - What is it? https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html#samesite-cookie-attribute Someone can submit a form FROM or TO your domain, automatically. 07:50 - Solutions SameSite Cookie https://medium.com/swlh/secure-httponly-samesite-http-cookies-attributes-and-set-cookie-explained-fc3c753dfeb6 Lax — Default value in modern browsers. Cookies are allowed to be sent with top-level navigations and will be sent along with GET requests initiated by a third party website. The cookie is withheld on cross-site subrequests, such as calls to load images or frames, but is sent when a user navigates to the URL from an external site, such as by following a link. Strict — As the name suggests, this is the option in which the Same-Site rule is applied strictly. Cookies will only be sent in a first-party context and not be sent along with requests initiated by third party websites. The browser sends the cookie only for same-site requests (that is, requests originating from the same site that set the cookie). If the request originated from a different URL than the current one, no cookies with the SameSite=Strict attribute are sent. None — Cookies will be sent in all contexts, i.e sending cross-origin is allowed. The browser sends the cookie with both cross-site and same-site requests. CSRF Token Check Origin / Referrer Headers Captcha Ask for Password Token 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

21 Juni 202117min

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Miriam Suzanne about all things CSS — container queries, layers, scoping, and more! 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. 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. RevenueCat - Sponsor RevenueCat makes it easy to build and manage iOS and Android in-app purchases. With a few lines of code, RevenueCat provides IAP infrastructure, customer analytics, data integrations, and gives you time back from dealing with edge cases and updates across the platforms. Created by developers, for developers, thousands of the world’s best apps use RevenueCat to power their in-app purchases and subscriptions. Get started for free at revenuecat.com. Guests Miriam Suzanne Show Notes 02:21 - When did you come on board with container queries? 10:27 - How would you declare specificity? Layer example: @layer default; @layer theme; @layer components; @import url(theme.css) layer(theme); @layer default { audio[controls] { display: block; } } 13:08 - What is your background? 18:20 - What are container queries? 22:06 - What is the background on contain? How does it work? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/contain 29:25 - Is it still under development? https://www.igalia.com/open-prioritization/index 33:51 - Have you tried the EQ polyfill from Johnathan Neal yet? 35:21 - How far out are we? 38:10 - What is Scope? 44:00 - How will MQ and CQ work together? 45:49 - Do you use inline and block? 48:44 - What browser do you use? Links OddBird Susy Jonathan Neal FireFox Codepen https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts https://twitter.com/TerribleMia ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Reelgood Wes: Embroidery machine Shameless Plugs Miriam: OddBird Scott: 1: SvelteKit 2: Level Up Tutorials Pro Spring Sale - 50% off annual subscriptions! 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

16 Juni 202159min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about SvelteKit — what it is and why you might want to use it. 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. Show Notes 03:28 - What is it? Total platform for building Svelte apps Built in Vite.js Includes all of the Vite goodness but it hides behind the scenes for the most part Host anywhere 05:16 - Is it CSR, SSR, SSG, WTF?! All of the above. Uses adapters to control the output: kit: { // hydrate the element in src/app.html target: '#svelte', adapter: adapter() } 09:45 - What you get out of the box File-based routing API routes Layouts and layout resets Fancy file titles [slug] __layout Code splitting & preloading PostCSS TypeScript support 17:03 - Neat small things Glob import https://github.com/svelte-add/svelte-add Links SvelteKit Next.js Gatsby.js Sapper tailwindcss @chriscoyier 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

14 Juni 202124min

It’s another Potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about immutability, turning off your brain, managing copy on a website, problem-solving, types vs interfaces, hooks vs components, 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. 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. Coudinary - Sponsor Cloudinary is the best way to manage images and videos in the cloud. Edit and transform for any use case, from performance to personalization, using Cloudinary’s APIs, SDKs, widgets, and integrations. Show Notes 01:24 - I’m finally getting onboard with the GraphQL train and have a specific question about nomenclature. Having worked with redux in the past, IMMUTABILITY was a concept ingrained in my head. I continue to see benefits of immutable updates across all sorts of libraries, frameworks, vanilla js, etc. Learning about GraphQL now, I’m taken aback by the fact that CUD (create, update, delete) operations are called MUTATIONS. Is there a reason that we use the “mutation” terminology, despite the fact that best practices dictate that we should implement immutable updates to objects? Does GraphQL actually mutate objects behind the scenes? 06:38 - How do you sleep at night?!? I mean, how do you switch off your brain when you’re trying to go to sleep and your brain just wants to keep on coding? 12:15 - How do you manage copy and microcopy on a site? Should you put every piece of text across the entire site into a CMS so the client can change it? Or just the parts you think may be updated in the future? Or do you just hard-code everything directly into the markup? Or collect it all into an importable JSON file? 21:41 - I am new to using CMSs and I was wondering for applications that require a lot of content management where a CMS or headless CMS such as Contentful is ideal but also requires dynamic queries such as recommended content to the end-user based on browsing history. How do you approach integrating the user data in combination with the data being received and handled from the CMS? A separate API and database? Or is this a scenario that a CMS doesn’t fit? 25:56 - When solving a problem, do you do it through trial and error? Or do you carefully think through every solution and choose the best one before actually implementing it into code? 28:14 - How can we take advantage of this new partnership between 1Password + SecretHub! I feel like this is getting into DotEnv but sounds so much more interesting. 32:34 - When creating types in TypeScript, when should someone use a type over an interface? While I generally understand the differences, it seems like interfaces offer more flexibility. I am struggling to understand why I would ever use a type. 36:34 - I’ve recently started using TypeScript in React, and typically I’m just using function components. I’ve seen some people saying that classes are really great with TypeScript in React but I haven’t found any real use case/benefits myself yet. How about you guys, do you use classes in React/TypeScript? 38:17 - What are your opinions on generators like Yeoman? 44:26 - I’ve been looking for a career in web for a couple of years now and I’ve recently landed a job with a small agency getting paid hourly making WordPress websites, that I’ll be starting in two weeks. I’m worried that I’m going to get stuck pushing Divi sites all the time. I know this is a good opportunity for me but I was hoping you guys can shed some light and give me some tips on how I can put my skills to good use. 48:35 - What are your approaches for caching a GraphQl API? 52:30 - You mentioned in an earlier Potluck that Svelte is probably the easiest framework to learn. How confident can one be to start a new project with Svelte? Being a technical lead, can I propose our team to work with Svelte? Are there enough material/solution on the web and is the community established? Links ZMA Supplement Tina https://twitter.com/gusfune/status/1372243283758419977 1Password SecretHub TypeScript Syntax 348: TypeScript Fundamentals — Getting a Bit Deeper Syntax 042: Potluck EP × Vue.js × Headless WP × Typescript & Flow × Productivity × Server Side Rendering × Yeoman https://www.npmjs.com/package/zx Yeoman Mercurius Apollo Svelte ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Contigo Shake & Go Wes: Deli Containers Shameless Plugs Scott: 1: Become a Level Up Tutorials Author 2: Level Up Tutorials Pro Spring Sale - 50% off annual subscriptions! 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

9 Juni 20211h 2min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Wes’ experiment building a vaccine bot! 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 07:32 - First step Finding the data. Open up dev tools. Copy as Node.js Fetch in Chrome Two ways to do this - Puppeteer, or raw requests, or a mix. 11:03 - Variablizing it Store IDs Booking form IDs Vaccine IDs 12:56 - Finding out any restrictions Is there a cookie? Is there an XSRF? Do these things change? How often can you hit it? 15:20 - Caching Array variable 16:59 - Delivering the notifications Telegram Links https://github.com/wesbos/vaxbot 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

7 Juni 202124min

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about using React with Typescript — how to set it up, components, state, props, passing data, custom hooks, 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 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. 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 04:55 - Components Strategies Example: type Props = { value: string; } const App = (props: Props) => Return type? JSX.Element FC or FunctionComponent It’s discouraged for this reason: It means that all components accept children, even if they're not supposed to It could be useful for a return type 12:13 - Props Default props: const defaultJoke: JokeProps = { joke: 'LOL JOE', id: 'YEAH', status: 200, }; function JokeItem({ joke = defaultJoke }: JokeProps): JSX.Element { return ( {joke.joke} = {joke.id} ); } Because props are always destructured, you often have to make a new type for your props. You can’t just type each argument by itself. 18:38 - State Just like Generics, State can be inferred If your type is simple and you’re using useState, it just works: const [user, setUser] = useState(null); 22:27 - useEffect Nothing special required Good use of void: If you want to use a Promise function but not worry about await or .then(), you can pop a void in front of it: useEffect(() => { console.log('Mounted'); // getJoke().then(console.log).catch(console.error); void getJoke(); }, [getJoke]); 26:09 - Refs Very similar to state however some interesting things with null: const ref1 = useRef(null!); “Instantiating the ref with a current value of null but lying to TypeScript that it’s not null.” 29:33 - Custom Hooks This is a great use case for Tuples 31:00 - Context This is probably the most complex thing in this list First define the types Use generic to pass in types OR null This can also be non-null if you have default values in createContext: const AppCtx = React.createContext(null); 35:21 - Events The React events system is better than Vanilla JS Can handle them inline and have it inferred: onClick={e ⇒ yeah(e.target)} const onSetType = (e: React.ChangeEvent) => setType(e.target.value) React has a bunch of events built in — many of them take a Generic argument so you can specify the type of element that triggered it. Handy for native API methods like play and pause. 39:27 - ForwardRef Again use of to pass in forwarded ref type as param 1, Props types as param 2: type Props = { children: React.ReactNode; type: "submit" | "button" }; export type Ref = HTMLButtonElement; export const FancyButton = React.forwardRef((props, ref) => ( {props.children} )); 41:30 - ESLint Typescript-react is good Extend your own Most JS rules apply to TS 46:20 - React as Global React 17 Also add JSX: True to eslint globals for typing things like JSX.Element global.d.ts import * as react from "react" import * as react_dom from "react-dom" declare global { type React = typeof react type ReactDOM = typeof react_dom } 48:08 - TSConfig jsx: "react" React emit .js files with JSX changed Preserve .jsx file output React-native → .js files with jsx not changed 53:05 - Frameworks? Next.js makes this a TREAT Gatsby just use .tsx extensions https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-plugin-ts-config/ Links https://github.com/typescript-cheatsheets/react Tanner Linsley https://github.com/wesbos/eslint-config-wesbos Deno Architect https://fav.farm/ Snowpack Vite Parcel 2 Foam ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Obsidian Wes: Folding Allen Keys Shameless Plugs Scott: 1: Level Up Tutorials Pro Spring Sale - 50% off annual subscriptions! 2: SvelteKit Course Wes: Beginner Javascript Course - 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

2 Juni 20211h 12min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about making money as a creator — how to do what you love, make money doing it, and not feel yucky about it! Deque - Sponsor Deque’s axe DevTools makes accessibility testing easy and doesn’t require special expertise. Find and fix issues while you code. Get started with a free trial of axe DevTools Pro at deque.com/syntax. No credit card needed. 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 06:37 - Community supported Sell licenses Premium plugin Single payment $x per year Sell training Online In-person Sell support Donation-supported Patreon (usually has bonus content) Tips Open Collective Sell merch Teespring 16:00 - Corporation supported Display ads Sponsored segments Corporate sponsors Sponsored content Interesting collabs Stickers Links Syntax 330: React Query + More React with Tanner Linsley Syntax 340: Servers with Matt from Caddy Wes’ CSS Grid Course 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

31 Maj 202125min