April 29, 2022

Servers, Superstitions, and State Managers

2 hours 1 minute

What is a state manager? Does it make web development more complicated, or are they worth the pain? Mike and Sean take a look at state managers like VueX, Redux, Redux Saga, MobX, and ember data to find out how much more cruft and configuration they add to existing projects. If we choose to not use state managers, what can we do to future-proof our careers? What is the future of web development? Is web web development essential work?

How can we manage state in web applications? State managers?

What makes the web tick? Servers? Should you learn to run servers? What about hypervisors like Proxmox?

WebAR: what is it, and what are its applications?

TypeScript: where does it fit in? Is it worth learning?

Bluetooth: why does it suck?

Is Javascript terrible, or is it due for a replacement? Dead languages like Cobal, Pascal, etc.

How can we support open-source projects and the libraries we use?

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