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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Web Development in 2017 && a look ahead at 2018 🍾🍷

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

What happened in web development in 2017? What were our personal and professional feats in 2017? What should we look forward to in 2018?

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The Show Notes!

02:00

  • Scott's 2017 Look Back
  • Scott is a new parent
  • Dealing with kids who don't sleep
  • Scott's Breakdancing Gains

05:20

  • Wes' Look Back
  • Taking Health Seriously
  • First full year of Wes doing tutorials full time
  • Course Correction VS Goals
  • Course Platform Improvements
  • Lots of Email Marketing
  • Migration to Drip

09:10

  • Scott cut ties with startup
  • 100% Invested in Levelup Tutorials
  • Major Platform improvements
  • New Payment Gateways
  • Lots of new Series - 400 videos!

11:25

  • We Launched Syntax!
  • Thank you!
  • The show is getting good (we think?)

13:50

16:20

  • Goals for 2018
  • The Yacht Club
  • S.M.A.R.T. Goals

18:00

  • Scott's 2018 Goals
  • More videos
  • More Youtube
  • Building a Set
  • Less Overtime

20:35

  • Wes' 2018 Goals
  • Releasing lots and lots of Content
  • CSS Grid
  • VS Code
  • Some ideas around JavaScript and CSS Courses (tweet Wes your feedback)
  • If it's not a Hell Yes, it's a no
  • Double down on what works
  • New Checkout Experience
  • Delegate + Automate
  • Get faster at recording

29:40

  • JavaScript in 2018
  • SSR Frameworks: Next.js, Gatsby, Nuxt.js
  • ParcelJS
  • Tooling is becoming less of a pain in the ass

33:00

  • GraphQL Is Blowin' Upppppp
  • Typed Languages / Typings
  • Flow / Typescript / ReasonML / GraphQL Typings

38:00

  • WordPress' Gutenberg Editor

41:00

  • React Patent's Dropped
  • Vue became really popular

45:30

  • CSS Changes!
  • CSS Grid
  • Firefox CSS Grid Dev Tools

48:50

  • Componentized CSS
  • Design Systems
  • Figma
  • CSS Variables

54:00

  • VS Code became very popular

55:00

  • The Iron Yard shut down

58:00

  • Progressive Web Apps

59:00

  • What do we hope for in 2018?

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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 Tolinsky and West Boss.

0:10.4

Hey welcome to Syntax. In this this episode we're going to be doing a look back and a little bit of a look forward on our 2017 and into 2018 as we approach the end of the year here.

0:22.8

So we're going to be doing a little bit of personal

0:25.4

and professional look back, seeing what worked for us,

0:28.3

what didn't work, and what we're excited about in the future.

0:30.8

We're also going to be talking about what happened this year with

0:33.3

JavaScript CSS and a web overall.

0:37.7

Awesome how's it going Scott how you doing today?

0:41.2

I'm doing pretty good all things considered not getting much sleep still

0:44.6

with the oh yeah the little one but uh yeah all things consider and I'm

0:48.8

feeling pretty good here I'm ready to go it's a beautiful sunny day here in Denver so awesome we're about to get

0:54.4

slammed by a snowstorm and I hadn't got our snow tires on so I I went crawl

1:00.8

into it's actually a good good use case for talking about relationships

1:04.7

because I have a really good relationship with my mechanic and he'll always squeeze me in no matter

1:10.1

how busy he is so he just threw him on for me he got some blizax on there oh nice

1:16.5

you're gonna be plowing through that snow looking forward to it cool so let's

1:21.9

let's jump right into it.

1:23.0

We'll take a, let's start with some personal and professional look back, like personally, what

1:27.8

did we both do in 2017 and then we'll jump into some like what actually happen in the greater industry in 2017.

1:35.2

So other than this podcast being sponsored by BlizzX, we're also sponsored by Fresh Books, which is

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