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
- 10.0 came out
- Images!
Gatsby
- A single useQuery (made possible by suspense)
Serverless
- Going to get easier
- Begin
- Next.js / Now Functions
Headless CMS Thunderdome
- Sanity
- WordPress
- WPGraphQL
- Keystone
- Strapi
- RedwoodJS
- Blitz.js
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
- Snowpack
- Vite
- Rollup made gains
- Rome
- GraphQL got way easier
Battle of the Types
- Typescript
- Flow
- Reason
- Rust
Wasm
- Viable to use
- Starting to exist in more real ways

52:53 - Working from home

Remote work is hotter than ever
Starlink is coming
Webcams - Cam Link
Discord
Remote Pairing
- Live Share - I used VS Code with Jed from Keystone
- Tuple

57:13 - Code libraries

59:25 - Personal / Professional updates

Hard year for productivity
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