87: Chris Biscardi on a Post-Webpack Web Development

Chris Biscardi and I talk about using the platform — what happened in the browser while we were webpacking all-the-things-in-js.

We talk about the future of JavaScript meta frameworks, a return to Rails, serverless provider lock-in, and the value of content creation in an economic downturn.

Featuring

• Chris Biscardi — Twitter, Website, Github, egghead
• chantastic — Twitter, Website, GitHub, egghead

Links

• Gatsby — build blazing fast websites and apps
• Wordpress
• MDX — Markdown for the component era
• Slate — A customizable framework for building rich text editors
• Netlify Functions
• AWS Lambda
• Party Corgi Tank Top
• Joel Hooks on Twitter
• [illustrated.dev] — Illastrated Explanations & Notes by Maggie Appleton
• 86: Maggie Appleton on the Power of Mental Models — last week’s episode with Maggie on illustrated.dev and the power of cognative metaphors
• Composable Gatsby Themes course on egghead
• Build an App with React Suspense course on egghead
• Shipping Sector, Toast, and more — Chris’ introduction post on removing Gatsby from his personal site
• sector on Twitter
• Toast on Github
• JamStack
• webpack
• rollup.js
• Service Worker API
• NextJS
• Snowpack — Build web applications with less tooling and 10x faster iteration
• babel-plugin-preval
• SVG use with External Referenc, Take 2 on CSS-TRICKS
• Rome — an experimental JavaScript toolchain by the creator of Babel. A compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, testing framework and more
• Rust — A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
• Rails — everything you need to build fantastic applications
• Babel — created by Sebastian McKenzie and maintained by Henry Zhu
• Rails Resource verbage
• GraphQL — A query language for your API
• RedwoodJS — Bringing full-stack to the JAMstack
• gRPC on Wikipedia
• Azure — more than 100 services to build, deploy, and manage applications—in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge
• AWS Snowmobile — Migrate or transport exabyte-scale data sets into and out of AWS
• #staythefuckhome on Twitter
• Refactoring UI — Learn how to design awesome UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer’s point-of-view
• freeCodeCamp post COVID-19 on Twitter
• “be an investment, not an expense 💰” — Amy Hoy on Twitter
• :party-corgi: chat on Discord

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