967: What’s Going to Happen in Web Dev During 2026

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Wes and Scott talk about their bold predictions for web development in 2026, from WebGPU-powered design and modern CSS breakthroughs to JavaScript standards, AI-driven tooling, security risks, the future of frameworks, workflows, and more! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:49 WebGPU and 3D experiences will finally take off Lando Norris 01:30 Web design will make a comeback Raycast shaders.com 04:03 Light mode returns (yes, really) 07:06 Modern CSS standards are about to have a huge year CSS Wrapped Graffiti 13:15 Will the Temporal API finally ship everywhere in 2026? 14:18 The rise of the standard stack 16:18 Are we headed toward standardized RPC? 19:41 What’s next (and what’s not) for React 21:07 Why we’ll see more security failures in web dev 22:35 SvelteKit 3 lands in 2026 22:53 Where developer tooling is headed next Oxc Biome 26:44 More big acquisitions Anthropic Bun 28:02 2026: the year of durable compute 30:57 Frameworks will matter less as AI gets better 33:34 End-to-end AI workflows become the norm 36:04 Brought to you by Sentry.io 37:21 Personalized software for everyday people 39:11 MCP and MCP UI will pop 42:24 Developer skills will fall off 46:20 Crappy software will continue 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. We have our 2026 predictions for you today. What's going to happen?
0:06.9	2026 last year, we had an incredible hit rate. I mean, we were well into the 80, 800% I would say.
0:17.3	We guess things that we didn't even know that we're going to happen. And today, Wes and I are standing up. In fact, Wes was like, I'm standing up. And you know what I said? Me too. I'm standing up too. New year and new me. I'm a stander now. I can't wait to try to stand for a week and a half and then sit down for the rest of the year.
0:39.5	Yeah, maybe I should do an episode on the treadmill.
0:40.2	Get walking.
0:41.7	Let's get into it, though.
0:44.1	Let's get our predictions cooking here.
0:49.3	What do we predict for the year 2026 in the world of web development?
0:55.5	So number one here is web GPU and 3D experiences pop.
1:00.4	Man, let me tell you, that Lando Norris website made some waves.
1:06.3	And that made some waves that won't be felt until 2026.
1:13.5	But I think we're going to really feel them with new experiences. Now, we saw a lot of really cool GPU enhanced websites or websites that had a lot more shaders and graphical elements and things
1:21.3	like that. I mean, I think it's only going to get crazier for 2026 for sure. I think so too. Man,
1:31.3	the cool landing page, and this kind of,
1:36.4	I'm going to loop this in with another one of my predictions is design making a comeback, because everybody's cranking out the same decent looking website with AI.... Raycast-ass homepage.
1:45.4	Yeah.
1:45.6	In order for...
1:46.8	And that's not a...
1:47.7	That's not a sland at Raycast at all.
1:50.5	No.
1:51.0	Because Raycast, like, invented that whole UI.
1:53.6	And it kind of sucks that, like, your entire, like, aesthetic has become like a meme
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