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February 11, 2019

Episode 19: JavaScript Development - Should You Buy or Build, with Guest Wes Bos

40 minutes

Recording date: 2019-01-17

John Papa @John_Papa

Dan Wahlin @danwahlin

Ward Bell @WardBell

Wes Bos @wesbos

Resources:

Syntax.fm

Wes’ Stickers

ReactJS

ExpressJS

MongoDB

Mearn Stack

Mean Stack

Nginx Config Examples

Cloudflare

PassportJS

Auth0

Identity Server

Façades Pros and Cons

Someone to follow

Nicole Oliver

Sam Julien

Sarah Drasner

Timejumps

01:47 Guest introduction

05:33 Is Express still the dominant tool to use?

06:41 What kind of headaches does building your own stack bring?

08:58 Why not use an off the shelf payment system?

10:20 Using Stripe from Node or React?

13:03 Sponsor: NativeScript

13:37 How was integrating Stripe?

16:07 Buy vs build

20:27 When did you create your course platform?

21:26 Why rewrite something that works?

25:59 Sponsor: DevIntersection

26:46 Nginx usage

31:27 How'd you decide what to use when you designed it?

32:10 What are you using for authentication?

36:29 Someone to follow