The Syntax Giveaway Site - Codes, Bots, Tech Stack and More!

Hosted byWes Bos

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

• Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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