In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about 2020 in review — predictions, hits and misses, hot tech, what they worked on, and more!
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Show Notes
01:43 - Predictions from 2020
- CSS Subgrid
- CSS Houdini
- CSS features not supported in older browsers yet
- Scrollsnap - IE 11 and up. Lot’s of mobile issues.
- position:sticky - no IE at all
- NPM tink
- Installer-less npm
- Load packages at runtime into a shared cache across all projects
- Intelligently download the parts you need
- Yarn PnP / Yarn 2
- Hard links to eliminate package duplication
- Shared cache across all projects
- Pika & Snowpack
- Deno
- 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
- 3.0 came out
- Fine grain cache control
- Hooks API
- Custom logic over how things are read and merged
- New dev tools
- Next.js
- Gatsby
- A single useQuery (made possible by suspense)
- Serverless
- Going to get easier
- Begin
- Next.js / Now Functions
- Headless CMS Thunderdome
- Cypress
- End to end testing
- We got Firefox support in 2020
- Modulz
- Exports to JS component
- Figma
- Was already amazing in 2019
- Constantly improving and adding new features
- Can import from Sketch
- Auto Layout
- Spline
42:24 - What other tech was hot in 2020?
- ES Modules is king
- We’re ready in the browser
- Node shipped stable
- Deno has it
- Snowpack
- Bundlers and tools
- Battle of the Types
- Wasm
- Viable to use
- Starting to exist in more real ways
52:53 - Working from home
57:13 - Code libraries
59:25 - Personal / Professional updates
- Hard year for productivity
- Published more than 100 episodes of Syntax
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