In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott use the fact that Svelte is being converted from TypeScript to JavaScript with JSDoc to talk about the benefits of working that way, why they are doing it, and what you can do with JSDoc that TypeScript alone doesn’t let you do.

• 00:10 Welcome

• 01:12 Roof update

• 02:15 TypeScript haters need not apply

• 03:17 What is JSDoc?

• 04:27 What is our history with JSDoc?

• 06:37 Why is Svelte moving to JSDoc?

• 08:11 Why is JSDoc better than TypeScript?

• 12:31 You can type things you can’t in TypeScript

• 16:37 Param, Function and returns Descriptions

• 21:32 Spoiler - it’s still TypeScript

• 33:23 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Get Started With TypeScript the Easy Way

• TypeScript without TypeScript – JSDoc superpowers

• TypeScript: Documentation - JSDoc Reference

• Dev Vlog: April 2023 - TypeScript vs JSDoc, Transitions API, Dominic Gannaway joins Svelte team

• Svelte repo is finally being converted from Typescript to Javascript with JSDoc

• If you are on a JS project and are missing the TypeScript hinting in your editor, you can still type your code with JSDoc syntax comments and VS Code will detect and use it!

• Sprinkle in a little JSDoc on top of your TypeScript when needed - helpful to adding descriptions to returned values, or marking things as deprecated

• TypeScript to JSDoc

• Scott: Watch MerPeople | Netflix Official Site

• Scott: Sentry

• Scott’s Instagram

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about all the nothing in CSS: 0 vs 0px, no, none, hidden, initial and unset.

• 00:22 Welcome
• 01:50 The @ property
• 03:33 Hiding Things
• 10:07 Ghost Spaces
• 17:47 Collapsing margins
• 18:33 0 units vs 0
• 23:42 Unset and initial
• 27:42 HTML Bonus

• Scott’s Instagram

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Matt Rothenberg and Idan Gazit from GitHub about GitHub Next, Copilot, AI based projects at Github, and what the future is for developers with AI.

• 00:38 Welcome
• 01:23 Who are Matt and Idan?
• Matt Rothenberg

• GitHub Next

• Scott’s Instagram

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the work in progress on the new Syntax website, how to tackle all the moving parts, what stack they picked, AI, and more.

• 00:10 Welcome
• 00:56 Leaky roofs
• 02:18 How we divided the workload for the new Syntax site
• Issues of Syntax v2

• Scott: Jury Duty

• Scott: Syntax Discord

• Scott’s Instagram

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about JavaScript executables - what is it? What’s the benefit of them? And what kind of tooling exists to support them?

• 00:25 Welcome
• 01:12 What are JavaScript executables?
• 04:39 Deploying tooling
• 06:01 Running on a USB stick
• 07:57 The size
• 12:19 Fastly
• The edge cloud platform behind the best of the web | Fastly

• Scott’s Instagram

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Bramus Van Damme all about CSS, what the CSS Working Group is, how he got good at blogging, setting custom property types in CSS, view transition API, and so much more.

• 00:35 Welcome Bramus Van Damme
• 02:29 Who is Bramus?
• Bramus Van Damme - Developer Relations Engineer - LinkedIn

• Meetups

• Scroll-driven-animations.style

• Scott’s Instagram

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about not becoming dependent on Copilot, CSS variable limitations, finding Sick Picks, lodash hate, and more!

• 00:11 Welcome
• 00:55 Ice, ice baby
• 02:01 Reactathon
• Reactathon returns May 2-3, 2023

• Scott: Tales of Taboo podcast Spotify / Apple Podcasts

• Scott: Sentry

• Scott’s Instagram

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the reasons your node_modules folder gets so large, and what you can do to help keep the file size down.

• 00:24 Welcome
• 00:51 The punching bag of Javascript
• DaisyDisk

• Scott’s Instagram

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Adam Argyle about a ton of new CSS features that have arrived or are coming soon, as well as his new site Gradient.style.

• 00:34 Welcome
• 01:05 Guest introduction
• Adam on Bluesky

• Onewheel // Future Motion

• Scott’s Instagram

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about your options for hosting your app including some of the big players, but also others you may not have heard of.

• 00:11 Welcome
• 01:06 Explaining basic concepts in hosting providers
• 07:55 How is hosting priced?
• 10:09 The big names in hosting
• Amazon Web Services

• Scott: Automators - Relay FM

• Scott: Sentry

• Scott’s Instagram