712: 2024 Predictions

Wes and Scott give their predictions for 2024 in JavaScript, frameworks, server-side JS, tooling, CSS, developer ecosystem, and AI tooling.

Show Notes

• 00:10 Welcome
• 01:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 02:00 Types in JS will have real movement
• 05:10 Temporal API will ship in 1 browser
• 06:38 Perf tooling gets easy for everyone to understand
• 07:32 CSS continues to get better where you need less JS
• 08:35 The year of the server in frameworks
• 10:32 Svelte v5 is very fast
• SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
• 12:04 Astro is going to have a good year
• Astro
• 4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea (Salma Alam-Naylor, Scott Tolinski, Eve Porcello)
• 14:22 React server components
• dai-shi/waku: ⛩️ The minimal React framework
• Waku
• 19:45 Remix moves away from page-based loaders, to component loaders
• 20:52 Hono will become more ubiquitous
• Hono - Ultrafast web framework for the Edges
• 23:23 Node will introduce TypeScript support via loaders
• 24:48 We will see a route matching Proposal move ahead
• URL Pattern Standard
• 26:34 Bun releases full node compat
• 27:34 We will see a new Linter + formatter entirely replace
• Language support | Biome
• HTML support · Issue #1326 · oxc-project/oxc
• Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter
• 31:44 New TypeScript typechecker
• 32:42 Lightning CSS pops - or does it?
• 34:37 You’ll hear more about Rspack and Turbopack
• 35:55 Vite isn’t going to release anything big in 2024
• Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling
• 36:55 CSS contrast-color will land in chrome
• 37:27 Relative color will land in all major browsers
• 37:48 Scroll animation landing in 2 browsers
• 38:40 The year of CSS discovery
• 41:20 Safari will Ship 3 missing PWA Support
• 44:10 Firefox usage will continue to slip
• 47:43 Paid Arc features
• 47:55 More XR web experiences as Apple releases in Vision Pro
• 49:07 AI Tooling
• Galileo AI
• v0 by Vercel
• Transformers.js
• 51:07 Small Models that run in the browser
• 52:08 Apps get sherlocked by OpenAI
• 53:24 On prem corporate AI
• 54:15 Sick Picks

Sick Picks

• Scott: ISO100 protein power, Weekend at Bernie’s
• Wes: Roborock S8 Pro Ultra Vaccum + Mop

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