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The Web Development Engine (Interview)
May 30, 2025 · 1 hr 33 min · 134.8 MB
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We’re joined by Andreas Møller, Co-founder of Nordcraft — the team behind Nordcraft Engine, a powerful new platform designed to give web developers what gaming developers have had for years. Andreas shares what inspired them to build Nordcraft Engine, why they believe the web is overdue for a shift in how we approach designing and building for the web, ee explore how the platform works, how you can get started, and what’s next for Nordcraft.
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 0:55Sponsor: Heroku
- 4:06Start the show!
- 6:17Getting started with Nordcraft
- 15:39Is this a pivot?
- 20:40Re-brand to unldeash Nordcraft
- 28:24Explaining the tech
- 34:31Formulas and flowcharts
- 40:54Hooking things up with AST
- 43:27Building formulas
- 50:40What will be open source?
- 55:06Sponsor: Depot
- 57:15What about auth?
- 1:01:32What does deployment look like?
- 1:06:23Do you have an educator?
- 1:10:55Cool tool. Impressed.
- 1:16:20How do you know you're on the right track?
- 1:30:09The cost of design to dev
- 1:31:34Wrapping up
- 1:31:50That's the show