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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes and Scott React to the State of JS

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott take a look at the 2021 State of JS survey that was recently published, including demographics, salary, browser APIs, overall happiness, and more! Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 2021 State of JS Survey 01:51 Winter birthday fun 05:38 The State of JS survey 07:37 Demographics 09:18 Salary range 09:58 Language features 14:05 Browser APIs 17:36 Custom elements and Shadow DOM 18:18 Page visibility API 19:28 File system API 19:58 Web share API 22:15 Sponsor: Linode 23:12 Libraries 27:30 Stimulus 29:21 Trends 31:32 Happiness with the state of front end frameworks 32:28 Sponsor: LogRocket 34:04 Backend Frameworks 38:16 Backend tool satisfaction 44:35 Happiness of build tools 46:32 Sponsor: Freshbooks 48:27 The best podcast in web development 49:05 Sick Picks ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Inventing Anna Wes:Everlane Crewneck Sweater Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Course Drop Party Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials 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

0:06.0

there.

0:07.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Tolesky and West Boss.

0:11.4

Welcome to Syntax, this is the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out

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there.

0:16.4

Today we've got a show on the state of JS.

0:19.9

This is a huge survey that happens every single year and there are all kinds of interesting

0:25.0

nuggets in terms of the language and backend and front end libraries and testing and

0:30.1

tools and resources and what's the best podcast out there.

0:33.8

So we're going to just kind of just go through it all together and this is more of like a

0:39.8

YouTube reaction video, but Scott and I will try to lend our two cents to some of these,

0:47.0

some of the results and why we think so and what surprised us and whatnot.

0:51.3

We are sponsored by three awesome companies today.

0:54.1

First one is Linode, Linux cloud hosting.

0:56.8

Second one is log rocket JavaScript session replay and fresh books, the cloud accounting

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solution you need.

1:02.4

We'll talk about all of them partway through the episode with me as always is Mr. Scott

1:06.5

Tolesky.

1:07.5

How are you doing today, Scott?

1:08.5

Hey, I am doing better, I'm doing better than I was yesterday.

1:13.1

I was very sick.

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