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Hasty Treat - New Level Up Tutorials Site
๐ Download Showโ๏ธ Edit Show NotesIn this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the new Level Up Tutorials website โ 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 โ 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
- API
- ESBuild
- Insane speeds
- Wrote a custom GraphQL importer plugin
- Mercurious / Fastify
- ESBuild
- 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
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