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In this episode Scott and Wes answer developer questions on various web development topics like TypeScript, performance, CMS, and more. They also discuss personal topics like dog DNA tests and how they organize their code.
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Scott and Wes explain JavaScript closures, scoping, and give examples of how closures can be useful.
Supper Club
Mark Erikson explains the complexity of shipping JavaScript packages that work across many environments,tools and module systems, with details on his work updating Redux libraries to add ESM support.
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Scott and Wes catch up on life outside of coding including concerts, home projects, fitness goals, and more. They also recommend a steam cleaner and a sci-fi kids book.
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Scott and Wes discuss techniques for dynamically generating social media preview images known as open graph or OG images using services like Satori, Cloudinary, and Puppeteer.
Supper Club
Aiden Bai discusses Million.js, a library that makes React rendering up to 70% faster by replacing the virtual DOM diffing process. He shares how it works, use cases, and his motivations for improving web performance.
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In part 2 of Rust for JavaScript developers, Scott and Wes dive deeper into Rust's type system, talking about integer types, strings, string slices, arrays, tuples, and other collection types. They also cover defining structs, adding methods, and other fundamentals.
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Wes shares 8 tricks for using the JavaScript Fetch API including streaming responses, tracking download progress, and handling errors.
Supper Club
Andrew Lizowski discusses how video editor Descript is built with web technology like Web Codecs and XState. He covers the AI transcription and voice features, using Radix and Tailwind for components, and reliable end-to-end testing with Playwright.
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Overview of 6 new approved and proposed JavaScript APIs in various stages - ranging from shipped to just proposed. Covers Promise resolvers, immutable arrays, array grouping, observable events, import assertions, Map.emplace(), decorators and pattern matching.