Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 937
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Supper Club × Cloudinary with Colby Fayock
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Colby Fayock about Cloudinary’s new AI tools, media flow, removing backgrounds, using AI for video templates, and Colby’s stack for crea…
00:54:11 |
Fri 07 Jul 2023
What are Headless Components?
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what headless components are, the why and when to use headless components, and how to best implement them.
Show Notes 00:07 Welcome
02:33 Tail…
00:47:47 |
Wed 05 Jul 2023
Lightning CSS
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what Lightning CSS is, how it works, and why you should consider using it in your projects.
Show Notes 00:25:22 Welcome
01:04:11 Overview of Lightni…
00:29:11 |
Mon 03 Jul 2023
Supper Club × Messaging Queues and Workers with Armin Ronacher
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher about his contributions to open source, queues and messaging in apps, scaling up a queue, and how it all works at Sentry.…
00:59:07 |
Fri 30 Jun 2023
WTF is an ORM
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the benefits and potential drawbacks of using an ORM on your next project, as well as what some of the popular ORMs are.
Show Notes 00:10 Welcom…
01:01:44 |
Wed 28 Jun 2023
Where to Register a Domain
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about where you should register a domain name, explain DNS, and the process for moving a domain from one registrar to another.
Show Notes 00:25 Welcome
02…
00:42:13 |
Mon 26 Jun 2023
Supper Club × Why Netlify bought Gatsby, GraphQL Data Layer, and Headless CMS with Dustin Schau
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dustin Schau about Netlify Connect, Gatsby, GraphQL, and more.
Show Notes 00:35 Welcome
01:20 Who is Dustin Schau?
Dustin Schau (…
00:59:47 |
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Potluck × Warp × Skeleton UI × Edge Functions × Donut Scoping
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about rate-limiting an API, using Wasp, Enums in TypeScript, styling React projects, using Edge functions, and more.
Show Notes…
01:07:04 |
Wed 21 Jun 2023
AsyncLocalStorage + AsyncContext API
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about AsyncLocalStorage, why more frameworks aren’t using it yet, some examples, as well as some footguns.
Show Notes 00:22 Welcome
01:44 What is AsyncLoc…
00:17:29 |
Mon 19 Jun 2023
Supper Club × JavaScript on Hardware, Micro Controllers, ESP32 with Nick Hehr
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nick Hehr about the fun ways to get started with micro controllers, writing JavaScript for hardware, and ideas for projects to build inv…
01:04:26 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
Electronics for Beginners
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through an introduction to electronics that you can do in your own home with microcontrollers.
Show Notes 00:08 Welcome
00:52 What we’re talking abo…
00:58:07 |
Wed 14 Jun 2023
GitHub Projects, Milestones, Labels, and Actions
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about some of the GitHub features you may not have used very much including projects, milestones, labels, and actions.
Show Notes 00:26 Welcome
01:53 That…
00:24:00 |
Mon 12 Jun 2023
Is JSDoc Better than TypeScript?
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, an…
00:43:07 |
Wed 07 Jun 2023
Nothing in CSS - 0 vs 0px, no, none, hidden, initial and unset
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about all the nothing in CSS: 0 vs 0px, no, none, hidden, initial and unset.
Show Notes 00:22 Welcome
01:50 The @ property
03:33 Hiding Things
10:07 G…
00:34:22 |
Mon 05 Jun 2023
Supper Club × Matt Rothenberg and Idan Gazit on Github Next
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 developer…
01:04:13 |
Fri 02 Jun 2023
The New Syntax Site × Ingest, Stack, AI and more
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.
Show Notes 00:10 Wel…
01:13:20 |
Wed 31 May 2023
JavaScript.exe - Standalone Executables
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?
Show Notes 00:25 Welcome
01:12 Wha…
00:16:48 |
Mon 29 May 2023
Supper Club × Bramus Van Damme on CSS
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 t…
00:56:27 |
Fri 26 May 2023
Potluck × JR Devs & Copilot × CSS Variable Limitations × SvelteKit
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!
Show Notes 00:1…
00:58:18 |
Wed 24 May 2023
Why Is node_modules So Big?
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.
Show Notes 00:24 Welcome
00:51 The punching…
00:25:25 |
Mon 22 May 2023
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