075: Building A Snake Game in LWC with Aditya Naag Topalli

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aditya Naag Topalli is a Lead Developer Advocate here at Salesforce. He started out building web pages and applications but didn’t stop there. Those beginnings led Aditya to amazing things such as building a snake game with lightning web components. Today we broke down why and how Aditya built the game and the lessons learned along the way about things like performance and controlling the DOM.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout the show, we also discuss what Aditya’s role as a developer advocate looks like and talk through everything LWC.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why Aditya shows himself building code from scratch in his demos.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why he wanted to build a snake game in LWC.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why not being in charge of manipulating the DOM is a best practice for lightning web components.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How to control the flow when it comes to rendered callbacks.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The performance benefits of using LWC instead of classic.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How to decide which data to present to a client.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong>Twitter account:</strong> <a href= "https://twitter.com/adityanaag"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://twitter.com/adityanaag</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong>LinkedIn account:</strong> <a href= "https://in.linkedin.com/in/adityanaag3"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://in.linkedin.com/in/adityanaag3</s