In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the benefits of sticking to the web platform that is available to you through APIs you may not know about.

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Show Notes

00:11 Welcome
01:15 Fogging the boats
04:25 Use the platform
06:32 URLSearchParams
10:04 Pushstate and History API
Pushstate
13:46 Internationalization API
Internationalization API
Syntax episode 153
16:03 FormData API
MDN Docs
Clipboard API tutorial
20:31 Sponsor: Prismic
21:23 All of the DOM API
24:12 Vanilla JS
26:06 Localstorage and IndexDB
29:18 Web Animations API
31:10 Sponsor: LogRocket
32:39 Endless other browser apis
38:22 Shadow DOM and Web Components
Web Components for beginners
42:57 CSS variables
46:05 HTML
47:27 Sponsor: Sanity
49:19 More HTML
54:12 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

Scott: Cable sleeve
Wes: Kindling splitter

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Scott: LevelUp Tutorials
Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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