In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review their 2023 predictions and see how they did on ideas like Deno getting hotter, new JS APIs, WASM, Houdini, CSS Container Queries, and more!

Show Notes

00:24 Welcome
01:18 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:05 SSR JS sites more the norm
solidjs.com
Remix - Build Better Websites
Next.js by Vercel - The React Framework
SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
Astro
04:14 TypeScript Inferred becomes hot
05:20 Types In JS?
ECMAScript proposal for type syntax that is erased - Stage 1
07:55 Deno gets hotter
11:12 JS runtimes mature
htmx
11:50 We will see a new TS Type Checker written in Rust
14:06 New JS APIs
What’s the status of this project? · Issue #1101 · dudykr/stc
Wes Bos on X: "Pretty excited about the new JavaScript non-mutating array methods. Currently in stage 3
tc39/proposals: Tracking ECMAScript Proposals
JS Fundamentals - Decorators - Syntax #653
16:29 Writing towards Winter CG Spec Popular.
WinterCG
17:09 Edge Rendering More Common
Prettier on X: "We setup a $20k bounty for a rust-based compatible printer with prettier.
$20k Bounty was Claimed! · Prettier
18:09 A new JS framework
19:05 Page Transitions API
19:51 Rust becomes more popular
24:00 More WASM
Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion - Syntax #643
FFmpeg
Fastly
25:11 React Beta Docs launch after 5 year dev cycle
26:47 We start to see CSS Container Queries in production
29:05 CanIUse issues?
31:20 CSS Subgrid
32:56 More AI
34:06 Tooling
Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling
Announcing Biome | Biome
Lightning CSS
Rspack
Turbopack
36:08 People sour on React
36:47 People sour on eslint
37:16 Houdini does nothing
CSS Houdini| MDN
Is Houdini Ready Yet?
39:57 How’d we do?
40:40 Sick picks

Sick Picks

Scott: Super Mario Bros.™ Wonder
Wes: Tineco Pure ONE S11 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner

Shameless Plugs

Scott: Sentry
Wes: Wes Bos Courses

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