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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

712: 2024 Predictions

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Wes and Scott give their predictions for 2024 in JavaScript, frameworks, server-side JS, tooling, CSS, developer ecosystem, and AI tooling. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:00 Types in JS will have real movement 05:10 Temporal API will ship in 1 browser 06:38 Perf tooling gets easy for everyone to understand 07:32 CSS continues to get better where you need less JS 08:35 The year of the server in frameworks 10:32 Svelte v5 is very fast SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined 12:04 Astro is going to have a good year Astro 4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea (Salma Alam-Naylor, Scott Tolinski, Eve Porcello) 14:22 React server components dai-shi/waku: ⛩️ The minimal React framework Waku 19:45 Remix moves away from page-based loaders, to component loaders 20:52 Hono will become more ubiquitous Hono - Ultrafast web framework for the Edges 23:23 Node will introduce TypeScript support via loaders 24:48 We will see a route matching Proposal move ahead URL Pattern Standard 26:34 Bun releases full node compat 27:34 We will see a new Linter + formatter entirely replace Language support | Biome HTML support · Issue #1326 · oxc-project/oxc Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter 31:44 New TypeScript typechecker 32:42 Lightning CSS pops - or does it? 34:37 You’ll hear more about Rspack and Turbopack 35:55 Vite isn’t going to release anything big in 2024 Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling 36:55 CSS contrast-color will land in chrome 37:27 Relative color will land in all major browsers 37:48 Scroll animation landing in 2 browsers 38:40 The year of CSS discovery 41:20 Safari will Ship 3 missing PWA Support 44:10 Firefox usage will continue to slip 47:43 Paid Arc features 47:55 More XR web experiences as Apple releases in Vision Pro 49:07 AI Tooling Galileo AI v0 by Vercel Transformers.js 51:07 Small Models that run in the browser 52:08 Apps get sherlocked by OpenAI 53:24 On prem corporate AI 54:15 Sick Picks Sick Picks Scott: ISO100 protein power, Weekend at Bernie’s Wes: Roborock S8 Pro Ultra Vaccum + Mop Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax Newsletter Wes: Wes Bos Courses Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss.

0:11.1

Welcome to Syntax.

0:12.4

Today we have our 2024 predictions for web development

0:17.0

JavaScript server side frameworks tooling CSS, AI, all in general.

0:25.4

We're going to be talking about things

0:27.0

we think will happen this year.

0:29.1

We do this every single year

0:30.4

and we revisit it in December to see how right or how wrong we were and quite

0:36.3

honestly we nailed it last time so I'm going a little bit more wild with my

0:41.6

predictions this year just to see if I can manifest some of these things.

0:45.8

How you doing Scott?

0:47.8

Oh, I'm doing good man.

0:49.8

Feeling, you know, filling the Christmas spirit, I know you're getting this one in January 3rd but

0:55.1

we're recording this the week before Christmas so hey I'm I'm feeling it man we got that

1:02.2

the elves on the shelf or just hopping around the house or kids are going

1:06.6

Absolutely feral and we are doing our best to hold on before the holiday so yeah that's how I'm doing. But hey if you're getting

1:14.9

wild with your code like we're getting wild with these predictions you're gonna

1:18.2

want to have a tool to help you solve your bugs. Not only solve your bugs but solve your performance issues,

1:26.4

solve your questions, your mysteries that you have going on in your code base.

1:32.3

Hey, why does this thing function this way?

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