Fullstack TypeScript Apps with No Build Step?! with Brian LeRoux

Wes and Scott talk with Brian LeRoux about not using a bundler, handling TypeScript, live reloading, Enhance being a meta framework, how Enhance handles CSS, his experience at AWS: Reinvent, and the state of JavaScript run times in 2024.

Show Notes

• 00:31 Welcome

• 01:00 Introducing Brian Leroux

• 01:32 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry

• 01:54 You can't fix bugs you can't see

• 03:14 Not using a bundler

• 05:48 Downsides of not using a bundler

• 11:13 What about TypeScript?

• 13:58 Is there a waterfall of imports?

• 18:29 What happens to live reloading?

• 22:12 The browser upgrade path

• 26:39 Is Enhance a meta framework?

• 29:02 What are you doing about SSR web components?

• 33:24 Can you refresh part of the application?

• 36:22 What about state management and Enhance?

• 42:52 How does Enhance handle CSS?

• 48:26 How was AWS: Reinvent?

• 54:47 What's happening with the Begin CLI?

• 55:55 Any thoughts on new JavaScript run times?

• 59:51 Sick Picks

• brian.io

• Quickstart - Architect documentation

• Enhance

• aws-lite

Sick Picks

• Analogue Pocket

Shameless Plugs

• Begin — The Cloud Platform for Functional Web Apps

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