868: The State of JavaScript

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Wes and Scott talk about the State of JavaScript survey, tends, popular features, and the evolving landscape of tools and frameworks. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:27 Brought to you by Sentry.io 01:16 The state of JavaScript Twitter fantasy football 02:27 Syntax features The State of JavaScript survey 05:27 Logical assignment 07:49 Strings 08:18 Arrays 14:16 Sets 2025 New Years resolution: use maps and sets more and objects / arrays less. 16:10 Browser APIs 22:50 Library tiers list 27:21 Upgrading from M1 Mac Chris Coyier - M4 30:08 Front-end frameworks 32:18 The top front-end frameworks used at work 33:49 What is the highest paying framework? 35:01 Meta frameworks 36:32 Meta frameworks pain points 42:33 Testing tools 43:58 Build tools 44:41 Most used libraries 46:33 Back-end frameworks 48:34 JavaScript runtimes 50:35 Serverless runtimes 51:25 Other languages people are using 52:49 AI tools 53:37 The State of JS Awards 57:18 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Wes: Headted Vest Scott: Super Mario Party Jamboree Shameless Plugs Syntax YouTube Channel 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've got the state of JS, the state of JavaScript.
0:05.0	This is a survey that goes out every single year. And what we like to do is kind of go through
0:10.2	it and get an idea of where is the industry at? It's always interesting to take a look at
0:15.4	what are people actually using, what are people building with, what is sort of coming up on the
0:20.0	horizon. It gives you a of coming up on the horizon.
0:22.9	It gives you a nice little look on into it.
0:23.9	So we're going to check it out.
0:27.3	This is the State ofjs survey at state ofjs.com.
0:31.3	Real quick, before we get into it, let's talk about Century at century. At century.io.4.S. Syntax.
0:33.4	Senders is going to help you figure out errors on your website, any performance slowdowns
0:38.9	and help you fix issues on that. So if you've got a slow website, whether that's something on
0:43.6	the client side, whether that's a database query that is abnormally slow. Sometimes, oh,
0:49.7	this database query is being fine, but all of a sudden, boom, this is taking three seconds to actually
0:54.1	run.
0:54.7	Might be something going on there.
0:56.0	Session replay, really cool, which gives you a video-like replay of what the user was doing
1:01.8	to hit a specific bug, as well as code coverage.
1:05.1	It gives you some stats on your test covering all of your codes.
1:09.0	Check it out, sentry.com.
1:10.0	All right, let's take a look at State of JS. First thing we have... are your tests covering all of your codes. Check it out, century.com, for such syntax.
1:11.5	All right, let's take a look at state of JS.
1:14.4	First thing we have here on the left is libraries.
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