In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about their predictions for 2021!
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Show Notes 02:06 - ESM
Scott: It’s going to be big Snowpack
Wes: Everything going forward should be ESM
05:44 - Wes: Remote work will grow
Whole new talent pool opens up
Whole new living situations open up
08:23 - Scott: Deno will grow
Deno 101 for Web Developers
11:12 - Wes: Tooling will fade away
Less setup, more behind the scenes
Rome
Deno Linter
Formatter
Transpiler
Tester
Parcel2
Snowpack
Nextjs
14:14 - Scott: Greater usage of other languages to build Javascript
esbuild
Rust
Go
19:35 - Wes: Programming communities will gain traction
Github Discussions
Forem
Circle
spectrum
Discourse
23:25 - Scott: More WASM
Mongo
Spline
27:19 - Typescript
Wes: Typescript will become more popular
Scott: Tooling will get better VS Code
29:37 - React
Scott: Scoped CSS in React will evolve
SSR and hydration will be better
Wes: People will fall out of love with React
Or more magic will get added to React
32:52 - Scott: More web component frameworks
Stencil
33:17 - Scott: Markdown and mdx-like frameworks will skyrocket in use
33:59 - Wes: Gatsby
Hosted GraphQL / SSR / Render on demand
Solve the pain of long build times
Syntax 308: Gatsby vs Next.js in 2021
Next.js
35:24 - Scott: AR tech will grow
Target AR app
36:38 - Wes: AI will become accessible
Something as easy as a search result
RTX Voice
38:43 - VS Code
Scott: It will continue dominating
Cloud and shared coding env will become better
Figma
Wes: Github Codespaces
40:18 - CSS
Wes: Color functions
More use of built-in features
Scoped CSS
Scott: People are going to love and use CSS variables
Modern CSS Design Systems Course
42:39 - Serverless
Scott: Ease of use will get better and better
Wes: Netlify
Vercel
45:30 - Wes: Enterprise Jamstack will become a thing
Cloudflare hosting
Next.js
Gatsby
Sapper
SvelteKit
46:30 - PWAs might become more popular
Apple will never want you to go around the app store
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