In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about all the things that have improved the lives of web developers over the years.

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Show Notes

00:16:18 Topic introduction

01:03:00 Leaf blowing and house updates

02:57:01 We complain a lot

04:13:22 Typescript improvements

06:20:00 Optional chaining

07:01:06 Async, Await and Promises

07:57:05 Array methods and tools for immutability

09:13:16 DOM interactions with getElementBy

10:34:10 Arrow functions

11:13:06 Classes! + All of ES6 was a huge breath of fresh air

12:18:07 Looping

13:22:00 Prettier Code is a huge game changer

Prettier

ESLint

15:51:00 Sponsor: Freshbooks

17:04:15 CSS updates

17:41:11 CSS Variables

18:41:15 Flexbox and Grid

20:16:10 VH, VW units

20:47:24 Overflow scroll on mobile

21:54:10 Color formats

23:08:06 Sticky headers

23:45:06 HTML 5

Introducing HTML5 By Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp

A Book Apart

27:54:00 Web components

28:29:09 Sponsor: Sentry

30:01:17 Tooling

Syntax 12 Why Is Everyone Switching to VS Code?

31:28:13 Speed of latest crop → ESBuild, Vite, Snowpack, parcel

Vite

Snowpack

33:33:03 Image compression

37:08:21 Hot module reloading

39:11:09 Image resizing, video hosting, accepting credit cards

Gatsby

Cloudinary

Spritecow

SmushIt

Stripe

Braintree

Entrepreneur friendly licensing

39:48:18 Entrepreneur friendly licensing

40:43:18 Sponsor: Linode

42:11:10 Developer Tools in the browser

Tweet from @Bentlegen

Chris Coyier - Let’s Suck at Github Together

Chrome.io

43:52:17 Insights into errors and troubleshooting

44:49:13 Cross browser and cross device testing

47:12:19 Hosting and SSL Certificates

48:14:08 Scaling up

49:53:13 Scaling with containers

50:14:09 When did we start using Github?

53:52:12 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott

59:42:22 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Wes ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: Tonal

Wes: Reboot your Portfolio / Canadian Couch Potato

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