866: 2025 Web Development Predictions

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Scott and Wes look into their crystal ball to predict what’s coming in web development next year. From the rise of on-device AI to the vanilla CSS comeback, Bun’s big moves, and React’s evolution, this episode is packed with bold predictions and hot takes! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:00 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 03:09 The agenda. 03:40 Temporal Javascript api will ship in Safari and Chrome. Temporal Proposal. 06:23 On device AI. WebGPU API Dawn Native WebGPU 10:26 Models will plateau. Bolt.new, v0, Lovable.dev. 13:40 Web Awesome will become the most used web components library. Web Awesome. 15:57 We will be using more web components. 16:59 A push towards the ‘standard stack’. 19:38 We can really use relative color. 21:39 Vanilla CSS comeback. 23:35 A complete Mixins / Functions API for CSS. 24:27 Conditionals will ship in all browsers. 25:50 People will still make vertical centering jokes. 27:08 VSCode will be feature parity with Cursor. 28:22 Framework choice will matter less with AI tools. 29:12 OpenAI will launch a browser. Dupe.com. Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy. Krazy Binz. 37:18 React will drop Babel. BabelJS. 38:05 React Server Components will pop. 39:46 Remix will relaunch as something entirely different. 41:11 React Native will have it’s time. 42:06 Svelte will get component-based islands or data loading. 44:19 Server Runtimes, Bun will continue to do non-standard, lovable things. 44:44 Bun will release a PAS to compete with NPM, Vercel, and Vite. 46:06 Laravel will release a CMS. 47:57 Vite will stay king. 48:03 Rolldown ships in the next version of Vite. Rolldown. Statamic. 49:35 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Scott: PHILIPS A19 Ultra Definition Dimmable Light Bulb. Wes: Stats App. Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax on YouTube. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax. Today, we have a predictions episode for you. Every single year, we do a
0:07.3	predictions episodes early in January to talk about what we think is going to happen in web development,
0:13.6	what we think is going to change, things that will go away, things that will get popular.
0:18.0	And then at the end of the year, we always review them and see how right or how
0:23.0	wrong we were with these types of things. Because we're usually pretty good at guessing these things,
0:29.0	but often we're hilariously wrong, which just goes to show that you shouldn't listen to anyone.
0:36.8	Everybody's just guessing, you know, especially if someone
0:39.4	has something to sell you as well. My name is Wes Boss. I'm a developer from Canada with me as always
0:45.1	is Scott Talinsky. How you doing, Scott? Oh, happy New Year. Happy New Year, New Year and New
0:50.6	me. I am, yeah, I'm dealing with some strep 30 kids at home.
0:55.0	It feels like kids are sick just 24-7.
0:57.0	Yeah, that's like the name of the game.
0:58.0	Yeah, that sucks.
1:00.5	But yeah, no, feeling like I'm stoked for, well, even just like whenever you go over the contents of this episode and you start to like make your predictions. It's like, yeah, it's like to me, I get really excited because I'm like,
1:15.8	ooh, I could potentially get all these things this year. That's really exciting to me. And just
1:21.3	even talking about it makes it feel like they're already here. So yeah, no, I'm stoked. Yeah,
1:24.8	for sure. And I want to, I want to push back was I think we have actually a very good hit rate on these episodes.
1:30.7	I think we have a fantastic hit rate.
1:33.8	Yeah.
1:34.1	What percentage would you say our hit rate is?
1:36.8	That's actually great.
1:37.7	Great question.
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