863: 2024: A Year in Review
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Wes Bos
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🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes look back at 2024 and share highlights from a big year for Syntax and the web dev world. They review their 2024 predictions to see what they got right (and wrong), and break down the major moments in web development from CSS improvements to AI editors and beyond.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:30 Changes to the Syntax podcast.
- 05:56 What happened this year?
- 22:17 What did we do?
- 22:21 React Miami.
- 22:26 JSNation Amsterdam.
- 23:55 JSNation US + React Summit.
- 24:57 Terminal Feud.
- 26:28 Laravel + Terminal basketball game.
- 27:02 Syntax San Francisco meetup.
- 27:23 GitHub Universe.
- 28:07 FITC.
- 28:38 153 Syntax Episodes + Video.
- 29:32 Our 2024 Predictions Reviewed.
- 29:46 Types in JS will have real movement.
- 31:29 Temporal API will ship in 1 browser.
- 32:50 Perf tooling gets easy for everyone to understand.
- 33:29 CSS continues to get better where you need less JS.
- 34:25 Svelte v5 is very fast.
- 34:38 The year of the server in frameworks.
- 35:28 Astro is going to have a good year.
- 36:13 React server components.
- 37:03 Remix moves away from page-based loaders, to component loaders.
- 37:18 Hono will become more ubiquitous.
- 38:28 We will see a route matching Proposal move ahead.
- 39:23 Bun releases full node compat.
- 40:42 We will see a new Linter + formatter entirely replace.
- 42:16 New TypeScript typechecker.
- Ezno.
- 43:40 Lightning CSS pops - or does it?
- 45:10 You’ll hear more about Rspack and Turbopack.
- 45:51 Vite isn’t going to release anything big in 2024.
- 46:24 Relative color will land in all major browsers.
- 48:14 CSS contrast-color will land in chrome.
- 48:48 Scroll animation landing in 2 browsers.
- 50:03 The year of CSS discovery.
- 51:09 Safari will Ship 3 missing PWA Support.
- 52:11 Firefox usage will continue to slip.
- 56:53 Paid Arc features.
- 57:14 More XR web experiences as Apple releases in Vision Pro.
- 59:55 AI Tooling.
- 01:00:57 Small Models that run in the browser.
- 01:01:38 Apps get Sherlocked by OpenAI.
- 01:02:04 On prem corporate AI.
- 01:04:49 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.
Sick Picks
- Scott: TCGPocket App.
- Wes: Huge Bag of Croc Charms
Shameless Plugs
- Scott: Syntax on YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax. This is our 2024, a year in review. We're going to take a look back at what happened this year in web development in general. What did we do as a podcast? And most importantly, we're going through our predictions. So every year, at the beginning of the year, we predict what will happen. And we'll take a look at |
| 0:22.7 | if we got some of those very, very wrong. And some of them, we were bang on. So I'm excited to |
| 0:28.2 | get into that. My name is Wes. I'm a developer from Canada with me. As always, Scott, how |
| 0:32.7 | you doing, Scott? Oh, hey, man, I'm doing good. Right now at our house, this is the second week in less than a month where we have some kind of stomach bug going around. |
| 0:44.6 | First, it was one kid, and we all kind of came out unscathed, if not for a little, like, sore tummies and stuff. |
| 0:51.3 | But, man, we got a whole other, a whole different stomach bug, |
| 0:56.3 | you know, probably came from a birthday party or something we took our kids to. And it is, |
| 1:02.4 | it is tough. It is tough to have to wake up to clean up after like kids several, several nights. |
| 1:10.1 | It is rough. It is rough. So, so yeah I'm feeling a little bit I'm |
| 1:13.8 | feeling that that aspect of it but hey I'm here I'm doing good we recently got back from a couple |
| 1:19.6 | of conferences and I'm going to Disney soon so it's just like I'm feeling in a good place good way |
| 1:27.4 | to cap off the end of the year right how you feeling I'm feeling in a good place. Good way to cap off the end of the year, right? |
| 1:29.1 | How are you feeling? |
| 1:30.4 | I'm feeling great. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm excited for 2025 and excited for all stuff. |
| 1:35.8 | We have planned. |
| 1:36.5 | Actually, maybe let's talk about that right then and there is we have some changes coming |
| 1:41.7 | to the syntax lineup, not the lineup. The lineup. This is the types of |
| 1:47.2 | content we are creating. So we are going to go down from three podcasts a week, down to two a week. |
| 1:54.3 | And the podcasts are going to be, traditionally what we do is we do a hasty on Monday, a tasty on Wednesday, and a guest on |
| 2:02.6 | Friday. What we're going to do now is simply make the podcast as long as it needs to be for the |
| 2:09.2 | content and not stick to a specific type on every single day. So you can look forward to that. |
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