In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about tech to watch in 2020 — things you should keep an eye on and learn this year!
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Show Notes
6:39 - CSS Subgrid
8:10 - CSS Houdini
11:20 - CSS features not supported in older browsers yet
- Scrollsnap - IE 11 and up. Lot’s of mobile issues.
- position:sticky - no IE at all
14:24 - NPM tink
- installer-less npm
- Load packages at runtime into a shared cache across all projects
- Intelligently download the parts you need
17:25 - Yarn PnP
- Hard links to eliminate package duplication
- Shared cache across all projects
18:31 - Pika & Snowpack
21:10 - Deno
25:39 - React
- Suspense in more libraries
- Suspense for Server Rendering
- Meteor
- New ownership. v1.9 just dropped with lots of promise for future growth
- Svelte 3
- Vue 3
- Apollo
- Next.js
36:37 - Serverless
- Going to get easier
- Begin.com
- Next.js / Now Functions
38:14 - Gatsby
- A single useQuery (made possible by suspense)
39:36 - Headless CMS Thunderdome
42:20 - Next Gen Frameworks
- Keystone
- Strapi
- Meteor
- Vulcan.js
43:46 - Cypress
- End to end testing
- Currently no Firefox support, but hopeful for 2020
44:21 - Modulz
45:00 - Figma
- Was already amazing in 2019
- Constantly improving and adding new features
- Can import from Sketch
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