Join Wes and Scott for a 30,000 foot, ‘soup-to-nuts’ view of web development. From choosing design tools, website styling, and programming languages, to backend infrastructure, data management, and hosting.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome!
• 00:21 30,000 foot view of web development
• 02:37 Brought to you by Sentry.io

02:55 Starting with design tools.

06:10 Code Tooling

• 06:22 Text Editors
• 09:34 Terminal
• 14:28 Build Tools
• 16:07 Browser and dev tools
• 18:21 Formatter and linter.

21:43 CSS (how you style your website).

25:34 Programming languages.

27:14 Backend with metaframework.

29:36 Backend without metaframework.

32:20 Runtimes (JavaScript).

What is Bun? The New JS Runtime

The Deno Show

34:02 User interface libraries.

Shoelace.style

39:43 Data management: Databases

41:42 Data management: ORM

WTF is an ORM

You should learn Drizzle, the TypeScript SQL ORM

42:53 Other data management considerations.

43:33 Image pipelines.

45:52 Hosting, CDN, CI.

Where Should You Host Your App? Hosting Providers Compared

Hasty Treat WTF × SSR vs JamStack vs Serverless?

47:21 Hosting your site.

50:19 The finishing touches.

• 50:26 Brought to you by Sentry.io

52:18 Captcha

55:03 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.

Sick Picks

• Scott: GreatScottLab, Show #594

Wes: AliExpress Board, Wes’ Demo

Shameless Plugs

• Scott: Syntax on YouTube

Wes: Syntax on YouTube

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