Tech To Watch In 2020
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about tech to watch in 2020 — things you should keep an eye on and learn this year!
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Show Notes
6:39 - CSS Subgrid
8:10 - CSS Houdini
11:20 - CSS features not supported in older browsers yet
- Scrollsnap - IE 11 and up. Lot’s of mobile issues.
- position:sticky - no IE at all
14:24 - NPM tink
- installer-less npm
- Load packages at runtime into a shared cache across all projects
- Intelligently download the parts you need
17:25 - Yarn PnP
- Hard links to eliminate package duplication
- Shared cache across all projects
18:31 - Pika & Snowpack
21:10 - Deno
- New Node?
25:39 - React
- Suspense in more libraries
- Suspense for Server Rendering
- Meteor
- New ownership. v1.9 just dropped with lots of promise for future growth
- Svelte 3
- Vue 3
- Apollo
- Next.js
36:37 - Serverless
- Going to get easier
- Begin.com
- Next.js / Now Functions
38:14 - Gatsby
- A single useQuery (made possible by suspense)
39:36 - Headless CMS Thunderdome
42:20 - Next Gen Frameworks
- Keystone
- Strapi
- Meteor
- Vulcan.js
43:46 - Cypress
- End to end testing
- Currently no Firefox support, but hopeful for 2020
44:21 - Modulz
- Exports to JS component
45:00 - Figma
- Was already amazing in 2019
- Constantly improving and adding new features
- Can import from Sketch
Links
- Syntax 109: CSS Grid Level 2 aka Subgrid
- CSS Houdini
- Interactive Introduction to CSS Houdini
- Tweetdeck
- Next Generation Package Management
- tink
- Pika
- Yarn PnP
- Syntax 212: Pika Pkg
- Snowpack
- Entropic
- Deno
- Ryan Dahl - 10 Things I regret About Node.js
- https://github.com/denoland/deno
- Cloudflare
- Hover
- Meteor
- Meteor roadmap
- tiny
- Svelte 3
- Apollo
- Nextjs
- Vue
- Begin
- Firefox
- Keystone
- Strapi
- Vulcan.js
- Prisma
- Hasura
- Syntax 209: Hasty Treat - Wes Teaches Scott about Keystone.js
- Cypress
- Modulz
- Framer
- Figma
- Sketch
- James Quick YouTube Channel
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
- Scott: Govee Thermometer
- Wes: Rack Mount Power Bar
Shameless Plugs
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Tweet us your tasty treats!
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- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
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 Telinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Syntax is the podcast with the tastiest web development treats in the entire world. |
| 0:17.0 | We've got a banger of an episode for you today. We're going to talk about tech to watch in 2020. |
| 0:22.0 | So these are things. |
| 0:24.0 | Maybe you want to try out some new stuff. |
| 0:26.3 | Maybe you want to get a leg ahead, |
| 0:28.8 | is that a saying? |
| 0:29.6 | You want to get a leg ahead in whatever tech we have? I mean there's like isn't don't they call like part of the |
| 0:36.2 | a race a leg of the race I don't I'm not a racer but if I was I'm not a racer |
| 0:46.7 | Anyways if you want if you want to get you want to get ahead, this is the episode for you. We're going to be talking about like things that we think you should keep an eye on. |
| 0:50.1 | Or if there's something where you're like, hi, I want to like focus in on something |
| 0:54.0 | to maybe forward my career, pick like one or two of these things |
| 0:58.3 | over the next year and get really good at it. |
| 1:01.2 | With me, as always is Mr. Scott Tolinsky. How you doing today Scott? |
| 1:05.6 | Do we good. Doing real good. I think the kids are sleeping a little bit better that's |
| 1:10.9 | helping us a little bit. They're not sleeping a ton better but they're sleeping a little bit. They're not sleeping on town better, but they're sleeping a little bit |
| 1:15.0 | better. We are potty training, Landon, and I don't know what your experiences were there, but |
| 1:21.8 | like waking up in the middle of the night because he has to go has been a little bit, you know, tough because you're so used to him sleeping. |
| 1:28.4 | I like wake up at like four in the morning and be on his monitor like, Dad, I have to go to the potty and be like, okay, |
| 1:34.0 | let me go downstairs and get you. |
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