In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Steve Ruiz about how he built tldraw, how he manages state, what was done to support mobile, and more.

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Show Notes

• 00:34 Welcome
• 03:23 Who is Steve Ruiz?
• Steve Ruiz

04:45 What is tldraw and what was your inspiration for it?

tldraw

Globs

Excalidraw

tldraw on GitHub

11:04 Why didn’t you use canvas?

16:15 How do you make an algorithm?

Perfect Free Hand

19:33 Do you use pointer events?

23:44 What are you using to manage state?

29:42 How do you handle zooming?

Creating Zoom UI

32:28 Where do you store the data for tldraw?

Project Fugu

37:08 Why use indexdb?

38:05 Sponsor: Gatsby

39:49 How difficult was it to make it work on mobile?

React Use Gesture

41:59 Does it work offline?

43:25 Supper Club Questions

Monokai Pro

Framer Classic

Hacker News

One Lone Coder on YouTube

Displaced Gamer

Coding Secrets

52:28 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Last Call BBS

Shameless Plugs

• Steve: tldraw.dev

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