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Supper Club × Steve Ruiz Building a Drawing App
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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Steve Ruiz about how he built tldraw, how he manages state, what was done to support mobile, and more.
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Show Notes 00:34 Welcome
03:23 Who is Steve Ruiz?
Steve Ruiz
04:45 What is tldraw and what was your inspiration for it?
tldraw
Globs
Excalidraw
tldraw on GitHub
11:04 Why didn’t you use canvas?
16:15 How do you make an algorithm?
Perfect Free Hand
19:33 Do you use pointer events?
23:44 What are you using to manage state?
29:42 How do you handle zooming?
Creating Zoom UI
32:28 Where do you store the data for tldraw?
Project Fugu
37:08 Why use indexdb?
38:05 Sponsor: Gatsby
39:49 How difficult was it to make it work on mobile?
React Use Gesture
41:59 Does it work offline?
43:25 Supper Club Questions
Monokai Pro
Framer Classic
Hacker News
One Lone Coder on YouTube
Displaced Gamer
Coding Secrets
52:28 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Last Call BBS
Shameless Plugs Steve: tldraw.dev
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