Hasty Treat - New Level Up Tutorials Site [Syntax]

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!

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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

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