In this episode, Scott and Wes are trying something new! It’s called Practical, in which Scott and Wes take a topic and flesh out all the theory into something super practical. Today’s topic comes from a listener question asking how they would build a simple version of a modern web app like Twitter, Reddit, or Airbnb.

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Show Notes

3:03 - Backend

• Express

Node

GraphQL

MongoDB

14:45 - Frontend

• React

Next.js

Styled components

Stay as close to real CSS as possible

22:39 - Deployment process

• Serverless
• Now

Ideally one app that handles everything

28:38 - Email

• Syntax Ep 32: Designing, Templating, Inlining and Sending Email

mjml

Juice

Inky

Nodemailer

Postmark

Mailjet

Mandrill

Get everyone set up and working in two different systems, so you can switch easily if something goes wrong

33:32 - Users / Auth / Cookies / Permissions

• Use something a pre-existing package or service rather than role your own (though it can get expensive quickly)
• Passport

Auth0

accounts-js

38:48 - Images

• Cloudinary

imgIX

41:50 - Other things to be aware of

• Handling cash
  • Stripe

PayPal

Braintree

Recurly

Queueing

Links

• Ruby on Rails

Django

Meteor

MySQL

PHP

Postgres

Mongoose

Drip

ConvertKit

Feathers

David Luecke

Tweetdeck

Next.js

react-router

Reach Router

Gatsby

Digital Ocean

Heroku

Redux

Svelte

Gridsome

Mailchimp

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