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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

The State of JavaScript 2018

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode Wes and Scott are joined by their first ever guest on the show: Sacha Greif. Sacha is one of the makers of the State of Javascript - the topic for today’s show. Wes, Scott and Sacha discuss the results of 2018’s survey, what they think, and implications for the industry. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 1:48 What is the State of JS survey 3:58 The tech behind State of JS 12:55 How was the data collected? 16:38 JavaScript Flavors 23:14 Frameworks 31:49 DataLayer 34:53 Backend 40:09 Other Tools 44:37 Opinions 47:48 Awards 49:58 Criticism Links Nivo Gatsby Netlify Reason Parcel Relay Express KeystoneJS Ghost Jest GraphQL VueX Storybook Real Analysis of Angular, React, and Vue ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Sacha: DIY and woodworking Wes: Alex French Guy Cooking Scott: Silverback Open 2018 Shameless Plugs Sacha - Vulcan.js Scott - Level Up Pro Wes - All courses Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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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

Hello everybody and welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest

0:14.2

web development treats out there we today we're talking all about the state of

0:18.0

JavaScript which is a survey that goes out every single year and the

0:22.1

results were just released and we're gonna kind of go through

0:26.0

some of the more interesting web development or front-end related results and then just talk about

0:31.7

what we think about them and what that might mean for our industry.

0:35.0

This is definitely something you probably want to pay attention to if you are looking for a job or looking for that next tech to move on up.

0:42.0

So with us, as always is Scott Tolinsky.

0:45.3

We always have him.

0:46.2

Yes, you do.

0:47.0

Yes, we have our first ever guest on the podcast.

0:51.1

We don't, we're not really a guest podcast, but, so we have with us as Sasha Grief, who is the proprietor or the, what do you call yourself, Sasha, behind this thing?

0:59.5

The originator, I guess, the founder. Okay. The webmaster. Yeah that sounds good. I'll take that. So

1:06.8

Sasha is here today just to help chime in on some of the ideas behind of this. He's

1:12.4

been doing this for you been doing this for three years, right?

1:14.7

Well, two years and this is, so this is the third year,

1:17.0

third edition.

1:17.8

This is the third year, okay, so he has data now from three years

1:21.6

and we are interested in to see his thoughts over time as well as like the

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