Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Mark Erikson about his work in helping others understand shipping ESM, how to deal with permutations, whether default imports are helpful, whether TypeScript has made it easier, and what Mark’s tool stack is for building. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:45 Introducing Shipping ESM with M..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about concerts, getting tired because of being old, landscaping, spinning on your head, gym updates, awful search engines and awful ethics for YouTubers, rewiring old engines, and what’s being streamed. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:49 Being tired The Strokes & Weyes Blood Tickets | 14th August | Red..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about OG images, interesting ways you can work with them, and ways you can work dynamically with them. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 02:18 What are OG images? 06:19 Testing OG images Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers Meta Tags — Preview, Edit and Generate Sharing Debugger - Meta for Develop..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Aiden Bai about his work on Million.js that aims to make React a lot faster. How does Million.js make React faster? And most importantly: has Aiden ever used a VCR? Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 00:57 Introducing Aiden Bai Aiden Bai aidenybai on GitHub @aidenybai on Twitter Aiden Bai ..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott jump into part 2 of their look at Rust for JavaScript developers, including variables in Rust, type systems in Rust, signed and unsigned integers, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:43 Audio issue bugs 03:17 Building decks 06:06 Variables in Rust Syntax 647: Rust for JavaScript Developers - Node vs..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about 8 tricks to try when using the Fetch() API. Show Notes 00:23 Welcome 02:14 1) Stream The Result // Create a new TextDecoder instance const decoder = new TextDecoder(); // Make the fetch request fetch('https://api.example.com/streaming-data') .then(response => { // Check if the response is val..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andrew Lisowski about working on Descript, web streams vs local storage, using state machines, writing CSS with Radix, monorepos, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:07 What is Descript? Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc. Work — Sandwich 02:21 Who is A..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about new approved and proposed JavaScript API changes including Promise.withResolvers, .at(), Immutable Array Methods, Array.fromAsync, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 04:55 What are we going to cover? 06:10 Promise.withResolvers 09:40 .at() You probably knew about JavaScript’s new .at() metho..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about whether decorators are finally here, what the uses cases are for decorators, how to define a decorator, and what auto accessor is. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:00 Are decorators finally here? TC39 proposal How this compares to other versions of decorators 06:47 What are use cases for decorators? ..

Can you have a Vercel like experience on your own AWS? Scott and Wes talk with Brandon Bayer about Flightcontrol - what it is, how to use it on your app, pricing, and more. Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:28 Who is Brandon Bayer? Brandon 🚀 Flightcontrol (@flybayer) / X Flightcontrol (@Flightcontrolhq) / X Blitz.js - The Missing Fullstack Toolkit ..