Creator of Wordle - Josh Wardle

02/09/22 • 64 min

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In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with the creator of Wordle, Josh Wardle. What's the tech stack for Wordle? Does he care about the clones of Wordle? And how did selling Wordle work?

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Show Notes

00:27:02 Guest introduction
Wordle
02:45:13 How did Wordle go viral initially?
05:27:14 Where did the idea for Wordle come from?
07:07:06 What's your background?
Reddit.com
12:52:23 Writing just HTML CSS and JavaScript
15:58:24 Wordle has 2 external dependancies
16:41:06 Sponsor: Sentry
17:40:23 The tech stack of Wordle
Lit Elements
just-merge
gzip
Cloudflare
AWS S3
22:21:04 Would you use web components again?
29:36:08 How much did hosting cost?
29:55:01 How does Wordle remember my streak?
33:56:07 Do you play Wordle everyday?
36:28:11 Sponsor: Sanity

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with the creator of Wordle, Josh Wardle. What's the tech stack for Wordle? Does he care about the clones of Wordle? And how did selling Wordle work?

Sentry - Sponsor

Sanity - Sponsor

Freshbooks - Sponsor

Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax.

Show Notes

00:27:02 Guest introduction
Wordle
02:45:13 How did Wordle go viral initially?
05:27:14 Where did the idea for Wordle come from?
07:07:06 What's your background?
Reddit.com
12:52:23 Writing just HTML CSS and JavaScript
15:58:24 Wordle has 2 external dependancies
16:41:06 Sponsor: Sentry
17:40:23 The tech stack of Wordle
Lit Elements
just-merge
gzip
Cloudflare
AWS S3
22:21:04 Would you use web components again?
29:36:08 How much did hosting cost?
29:55:01 How does Wordle remember my streak?
33:56:07 Do you play Wordle everyday?
36:28:11 Sponsor: Sanity

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00:26:13 Welcome
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Netlify Functions
Fastify
AWS Lambda
09:46:02 Hosted Linux servers
13:41:11 Serverless functions
MongoDB
SvelteKit
16:34:02 Connecting to a database in serverless
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Cloudflare Workers
Works with Workers
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