About this episode
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the new Level Up Tutorials website — some of the new tech powering the site, behind-the-scenes decisions, previous iterations, and more! 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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 02:55 - Previous iterations Originally on Drupal 7 Full re-write to Meteor + Blaze Two sites — store.leveluptutorials.com and leveluptutorials.com Meteor + React Meteor + Apollo Combine store and site Move to TypeScript NOW 05:30 - Big choices No Babel up and down the stack UI Mostly unchanged — React + Styled Components + SCSS Moving more to SCSS, CSS vars Build and dev done via Snowpack 50ms hot reloadin’ Mega fast development workflow has been a huge plus Errors in the UI via Snowpack Wrote a custom GraphQL importer plugin API ESBuild Insane speeds Wrote a custom GraphQL importer plugin Mercurious / Fastify Codegen GraphQL code gen to create everything we need for a fully typed codebase Auto-generated React Hooks Hosting render.com for both CLI Custom avalanche CLI that removes the guesswork and makes bulk operations easy Caddy server for easy leveluptutorials.dev in local environments Testing Jest → API Cypress → UI Links Digital Ocean app platform https://beta.leveluptutorials.com/ 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