724: Potluck: Is Virtual DOM Bad?

Is the Virtual DOM Bad? Are keyboard shortcuts important? What is S3 storage? In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions.

Show Notes

• 00:08 Welcome
• 01:27 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 02:45 Welcome Randy, our new Producer!
• Randy’s YouTube
• 04:14 A ‘Canadian Podcast’
• 04:43 Is Alpine JS or HTMX a replacement for pug or other templating libraries?
• 08:21 What powers the “in-app” browsers and how can we test our sites on it?
• Inject tracking code
• Tauri
• 13:16 A deep dive on generators and iterators.
• An Insight into Iteration Protocol through Infinite Scroll in Angular
• 15:25 Video podcast observations
• 17:18 PROBLEM I need a way of managing state.
• 22:34 Why is Virtual Dom (a la React) suddenly bad?
• 28:31 In a recent episode (659), Wes mentioned he updated the OG image cards, and noticed a higher click through rate.
• 29:07 Updated logo and monster truck intro.
• 30:19 Back to OG Images.
• 31:51 Are “import * as X” exports build stripped?
• 36:46 What is the difference between S3 storage and a CDN.
• Backblaze CDN
• 45:00 How important are keyboard shortcuts or extensions? Are they necessary to be a good developer?
• 50:04 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

• Scott: Perplexity.ai, Serversideup
• Wes: Zojirushi Rice Cooker

Shameless Plugs

• Wes: Wes Bos Courses
• Scott: Sentry

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