About this episode
In this episode, Scott and Wes talk with Etienne Lemay, developer of Missive , about his experience building Missive, best practices, and the pros and cons of building desktop and mobile apps with a single codebase. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax . Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 0:57 - What is Missive? 6:10 - What is the desktop app built in? 9:44 - Did you use any particular libraries for the front-end? 11:44 - How are you managing state? 13:37 - Is it challenging to do all of this in JS? 15:07 - What was the catalyst for the “multi-conversation swipe”? 21:32 - What is the mobile app built in? 24:00 - What are the advantages of Cordova? 30:30 - How do you manage offline/syncing/etc. so well in a JS app? 34:56 - How do you test it? 36:52 - Have you looked into Cypress? 39:35 - How do you style it? Links @EtienneLem Missive Spark CoffeeScript Backbone Redux Typescript Electron Webpack Javascript30 Cordova React Native Fastlane Amazon S3 Cypress Sass TailwindCSS Svelte Syntax 176: Building Steam Games with React ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Disgraceland Podcast Wes: Wagner 590 Spray Gun Etienne: Prettier Shameless Plugs Scott: Svelte Course Coming Soon! - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Etienne: Missive Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets