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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes bike shed some common developer opinions.
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Show Notes04:27 - Event params
06:36 - CSS variables
09:31 - CSS colors
11:52 - Default exports vs named exports
14:45 - JavaScript import ordering
17:09 - Foo / Bar / Baz in examples
21:18 - Light vs dark themes
24:00 - longVerboseNamesDescribingWhatItIsOrDoes vs x
26:54 - VScode vs WebStorm (IDE) vs Vim
31:12 - TypeScript Generics: vs
34:39 - Indentation-base syntax
37:37 - Max line length
40:21 - One reduce, vs multiple .map()/flat(),filter()
async function getStatus() { const res = await sendCommand('AT!GSTATUS'); const result = res.result .split('\n') .map((x: string) => x.split(`\t\t`)) .flat() .filter(Boolean) .map((x: string) => x.trim()) .map((x: string) => x.split(` \t`)) .flat() .filter((x: string) => x.includes(':')) .map((x: string) => x.split(`:`)) .map(([prop, val]: [string, string]) => [prop, val.trim()]) return Object.fromEntries(result); }42:50 - index.js files
48:20 - Ligatures and fancy fonts
50:30 - Regular functions vs anon functions in a variable vs arrow functions
52:44 - Explicit return vs implicit return
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Potluck × CSS Variables in React × JS Notebooks × Selling a Domain
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Supper Club × val.town with Steve Krouse
Stump’d × JavaScript × GraphQL × Memory Safety × Web History
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Supper Club × Cloudinary with Colby Fayock
What are Headless Components?
Lightning CSS
Supper Club × Messaging Queues and Workers with Armin Ronacher
WTF is an ORM
Where to Register a Domain
Supper Club × Why Netlify bought Gatsby, GraphQL Data Layer, and Headless CMS with Dustin Schau
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AsyncLocalStorage + AsyncContext API
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GitHub Projects, Milestones, Labels, and Actions
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