In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Lee Robinson from Vercel about React Suspense, server components, the edge, and more!

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Show Notes

• 00:35 Welcome
• 01:34 Guest introduction
• LeeRob.io

Vercel

02:25 Syntax hosted on Vercel

04:08 What is suspense?

06:50 Benefits of selective hydration

13:15 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response

14:24 How does suspense know you’re doing something inside of it?

18:02 How does this connect to server components in React?

22:00 How do we use this in NextJS?

24:32 NextJS routing future

Layouts RFC

33:11 Will I ever be able to use web components inside NextJS?

36:12 Sponsor: Gatsby

37:14 What’s happening with the Edge?

Edge Runtime

47:37 What should we use for databases?

50:39 Supper Club dessert questions

OhMyPosh

Hyper

Warp

Svelte

Hackernews

Reddit

58:57 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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