In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the tech stack they used to create the Syntax giveaway site for the Sentry + Syntax announcement week. What were the features of the site, how’d they generate proper codes, and how’d they stop developers from hacking the system?
Show Notes 00:07 How to do a giveaway and distribute it?
04:26 Building in the spirit of Syntax
05:44 The tech stack
SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript
Syntax × Sentry MMXXIII | Product Blog • Sentry
PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform
My Places - Google My Maps
sveltekit-basic-auth/hooks.server.ts at main · ghostdevv/sveltekit-basic-auth
Voucherify: Free Random Codes Generator
09:48 Hosted on Vercel
Vercel
13:04 What are the features of the site?
19:10 Generating the codes properly
26:48 Releasing locked coupon codes
29:13 Client to server side connections
32:56 Stopping developers from gaming the giveaway
46:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) - IMDb
Wes: The Strong National Museum of Play
Shameless Plugs Scott: Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software | Sentry
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