A delectable serving of tasty clicks, hot takes, nuggets, and other juicy treats!

ISSUE #3:

In the third issue of Syntax Snack Pack, Scott and Wes share some sick links to things like React powered video games. They also serve up a hot take calling someone out for design theft, new episodes, a MEETUP, and more.

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v0.dev: Vercel’s built an AI-powered web UI generator that takes as input natural language like “make me a 2-column marketing landing page”, and spits out the design + accompanying HTML and CSS. 🤯Svelte 5 & Runes: Svelte 5 introduces a new “runes” syntax for declaring signal based reactive state variables. The upside is state in Svelte has been simplified and made more standard.React-powered video games?: Chris Nakazawa (@cpojer) shows off his JavaScript and React-powered video game, Athena Crisis, running on a Steam Deck.Typescript Origins Documentary: A fantastic documentary on the come-up of TypeScript. Featuring a small interview with our own Wes Bos!

🔥 Design Theft

Replit, a well known code REPL, calls out competitor for ripping off design

🔥 A Cold(?) Take

@NanouuSymeon gives us the opposite of a hot take. I bet you have a joke about how hard it is to center things in CSS - how about 6 different ways?

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