In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the new Level Up Tutorials website — some of the new tech powering the site, behind-the-scenes decisions, previous iterations, and more!

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Show Notes

02:55 - Previous iterations

• Originally on Drupal 7

Full re-write to Meteor + Blaze

• Two sites — store.leveluptutorials.com and leveluptutorials.com

Meteor + React

Meteor + Apollo

Combine store and site

Move to TypeScript

NOW

05:30 - Big choices

• No Babel up and down the stack
• UI
  • Mostly unchanged — React + Styled Components + SCSS
    • Moving more to SCSS, CSS vars
    • Build and dev done via Snowpack
      • 50ms hot reloadin’
      • Mega fast development workflow has been a huge plus
      • Errors in the UI via Snowpack

Wrote a custom GraphQL importer plugin

API

• ESBuild
  • Insane speeds
  • Wrote a custom GraphQL importer plugin
• Mercurious / Fastify

Codegen

• GraphQL code gen to create everything we need for a fully typed codebase
• Auto-generated React Hooks

Hosting

• render.com for both

CLI

• Custom avalanche CLI that removes the guesswork and makes bulk operations easy

Caddy server for easy leveluptutorials.dev in local environments

Testing

• Jest → API
• Cypress → UI

Links

• Digital Ocean app platform

https://beta.leveluptutorials.com/

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