Episode 19: JavaScript Development - Should You Buy or Build, with Guest Wes Bos
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Recording date: 2019-01-17

John Papa @John_Papa)

Dan Wahlin @danwahlin)

Ward Bell @WardBell)

Wes Bos @wesbos)

Resources:

• Syntax.fm)

• Wes’ Stickers)

• ReactJS)

• ExpressJS)

• MongoDB)

• Mearn Stack)

• Mean Stack)

• Nginx Config Examples)

• Cloudflare)

• PassportJS)

• Auth0)

• Identity Server)

• Façades Pros and Cons )

Someone to follow

• Nicole Oliver)

• Sam Julien)

• Sarah Drasner)

Timejumps

• 01:47) Guest introduction

• 05:33) Is Express still the dominant tool to use?

• 06:41) What kind of headaches does building your own stack bring?

• 08:58) Why not use an off the shelf payment system?

• 10:20) Using Stripe from Node or React?

• 13:03) Sponsor: NativeScript

• 13:37) How was integrating Stripe?

• 16:07) Buy vs build

• 20:27) When did you create your course platform?

• 21:26) Why rewrite something that works?

• 25:59) Sponsor: DevIntersection

• 26:46) Nginx usage

• 31:27) How'd you decide what to use when you designed it?

• 32:10) What are you using for authentication?

• 36:29) Someone to follow

Sponsored by:

NativeScript)