In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Tom Pretson-Werner about his work on RedwoodJS, the importance of documentation, and the new Redwood Startup Fund.

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Show Notes

00:34 Welcome
01:36 Guest introduction
Tom Preston-Werner on Twitter
Kai’s Power Tools
04:23 Math is weird
07:21 User interface design
08:53 Sponsor: AIOSEO
10:24 What is RedwoodJS?
RedwoodJS
Chatterbug
15:31 Is JavaScript the stack you should be using these days?
18:40 Freedom vs decisions in software
Where Good Ideas Come From
23:10 RedwoodJS docs and video strategy
RedwoodJS Docs
Readme Driven Development
29:13 The tech behind RedwoodJS
Apollo
Storybook
36:20 Sponsor: Shipshape (Whiskey, Web and Whatnot)
36:58 Redwood Startup Fund
The Redwood Startup Fund
42:28 Supper club questions
VS Code
Netlify
Hacker News
RedwoodJS on Discord
RedwoodJS Discourse
RedwoodJS on Twitter

Shameless Plugs

Scott: LevelUp Tutorials
Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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Supper Club × Redwood JS with Tom Pretson-Werner

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