iteration 2020 Look-back Top Development Trends + Goals
Dec 28, 2020
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John: Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design.
- John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.
- JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer at a small analytics startup
Our 2020 Goals Episode → Link
2020 Review
JP
- Goal 1 (JP): Build Elixir App: (C+)
- I did build a really quick proof of concept Rust API that spits out some JSON
- I also followed a tutorial for a full stack Golang app
- Goal 2 (JP): System Design (F)
- Did not read the books that I wanted to read
- Goal 3 (JP): Algorithms - (C+)
- Just haven't had the time - but I have reviewed some array based algorithms FWIW
John
- Goal 1 (John): Blog More (C+) (12+ posts)
- Goal 2 (John): (F) System Design (Nope)
- Goal 3 (John): JavaScript (B+) 2 Courses, built way more shit in JS Stimulus Mainly
- Goal 4 (John): Focus 💯 (Closed agency, no more clients, doubled down on what I am good at)
Top 2020 Trends (From John)
- Remote Work 😷
- Remote jobs used to have a requirement of having remote experience... now everyone has this experience
- Commercialization of Open source 🤑
- "Open source" that's also a product / company
- https://www.gatsbyjs.com/
- https://nextjs.org/ (Vercel)
- https://www.cypress.io/
- https://www.sanity.io/
- https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq
- Even Microsoft acquisition of Github and continued changes there VS Code → Atom
- "Niche" frameworks 🍾
- https://svelte.dev/
- https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine
- This is Tailwinds' go-to for a JS solution
- bridgetown
- "Hey" made server rendered sexy again 👋
- JavaScript continued to eat the world 🍽️
- Vue 3 added a composition API that's very similar to React Hooks
- Low Code / No Code ✨
- Data warehousing 🤓
Picks
JP: https://www.rrauction.com/preview_gallery.cfm?Category=449
John: Rails starters: https://jumpstartrails.com/ — https://bullettrain.co/