
technologyFeb 1, 202125:55pending
Hasty Treat - New Level Up Tutorials Site
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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
Links Digital Ocean app platform
https://beta.leveluptutorials.com/
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