The Web Development Engine (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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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Featuring:

• Andreas Møller – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Nordcraft.com

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Heroku (00:00:55)

https://www.heroku.com/changelogpodcast

3. Start the show! (00:04:06)

4. Getting started with Nordcraft (00:06:17)

5. Is this a pivot? (00:15:39)

6. Re-brand to unldeash Nordcraft (00:20:40)

7. Explaining the tech (00:28:24)

8. Formulas and flowcharts (00:34:31)

9. Hooking things up with AST (00:40:54)

10. Building formulas (00:43:27)

11. What will be open source? (00:50:40)

12. Sponsor: Depot (00:55:06)

https://depot.dev

13. What about auth? (00:57:15)

14. What does deployment look like? (01:01:32)

15. Do you have an educator? (01:06:23)

16. Cool tool. Impressed. (01:10:55)

17. How do you know you're on the right track? (01:16:20)

18. The cost of design to dev (01:30:09)

19. Wrapping up (01:31:34)

20. That's the show (01:31:50)