Practical - How would we build Airbnb, Twitter, or Reddit?

In this episode, Scott and Wes are trying something new! It's called Practical, in which Scott and Wes take a topic and flesh out all the theory into something super practical. Today's topic comes from a listener question asking how they would build a simple version of a modern web app like Twitter, Reddit, or Airbnb.

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Show Notes

3:03 - Backend

14:45 - Frontend

React
Next.js
Styled components
Stay as close to real CSS as possible

22:39 - Deployment process

Serverless
Now
Ideally one app that handles everything

28:38 - Email

Syntax Ep 32: Designing, Templating, Inlining and Sending Email
mjml
Juice
Inky
Nodemailer
Postmark
Mailjet
Mandrill
Get everyone set up and working in two different systems, so you can switch easily if something goes wrong

33:32 - Users / Auth / Cookies / Permissions

Use something like a pre-existing package or service rather than roll your own (though it can get expensive quickly)
Passport
Auth0
accounts-js

38:48 - Images

41:50 - Other things to be aware of

Handling cash
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Braintree
- Recurly
Queueing

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