This State of Affairs

Where data lives, how to retrieve data, how to change data, how to track updates to data and provide feedback accordingly to the user…in other words, state. Web application development can necessitate a wide range of possible options for how you manage state, and in this episode we look at many of the ways this may work from the server to the client and back again. You may be surprised at some of the “old-school” techniques we end up cheering on in our conversation. Also…how the blazes do you pronounce JWT?! 😂
 
 Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

• Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
• The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
• Whitefusion web studio (ready for hire!)
• Binary Solo — Ayush's new blog
• Just a Spec Episode 11 (Storage APIs)
• Signals are Eating the Web (video at The Spicy Web)

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:27 Weather Report
• 2:12 Bringing up matters of state
• 4:07 Sidebar: stateless vs. stateful protocols and HTTP
• 6:43 State in files — don't knock it 'till you try it!
• 11:24 State in databases
• 18:04 State in key-val in-memory stores
• 23:05 Working with external APIs
• 26:35 Storing state in tokens
• 30:43 Moving along to client-side state
• 32:10 State in the DOM (nothing stronger than family)
• 37:31 Form data and FormData
• 40:43 State-based URLs
• 48:28 State in JavaScript memory
• 56:37 (wait, what are Signals again?)
• 1:02:07 Web storage APIs
• 1:02:48 Cookies…yum!
• 1:05:19 Client-side calls to external APIs
• 1:12:47 Ayush's adventures in blogging
• 1:15:54 Outro