2020 In Review

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about 2020 in review — predictions, hits and misses, hot tech, what they worked on, and more!

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Show Notes

01:43 - Predictions from 2020

• CSS Subgrid
• CSS Houdini
• CSS features not supported in older browsers yet
  • Scrollsnap - IE 11 and up. Lot's of mobile issues.
  • position:sticky - no IE at all
• NPM tink
  • Installer-less npm
  • Load packages at runtime into a shared cache across all projects
  • Intelligently download the parts you need
• Yarn PnP / Yarn 2
  • Hard links to eliminate package duplication
  • Shared cache across all projects
• Pika & Snowpack
• Deno
• 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
  • 3.0 came out
  • Fine grain cache control
  • Hooks API
  • Custom logic over how things are read and merged
  • New dev tools
• Next.js
  • 10.0 came out
  • Images!
• Gatsby
  • A single useQuery (made possible by suspense)
• Serverless
  • Going to get easier
  • Begin
  • Next.js / Now Functions
• Headless CMS Thunderdome
• Cypress
  • End to end testing
  • We got Firefox support in 2020
• Modulz
• Exports to JS component
• Figma
  • Was already amazing in 2019
  • Constantly improving and adding new features
  • Can import from Sketch
  • Auto Layout
• Spline

42:24 - What other tech was hot in 2020?

• ES Modules is king
  • We're ready in the browser
  • Node shipped stable
  • Deno has it
  • Snowpack
• Bundlers and tools
• Battle of the Types
• Wasm
  • Viable to use
  • Starting to exist in more real ways

52:53 - Working from home

• Remote work is hotter than ever
• Starlink is coming
• Webcams - Cam Link
• Discord
• Remote Pairing
  • Live Share - I used VS Code with Jed from Keystone
  • Tuple

57:13 - Code libraries

59:25 - Personal / Professional updates

• Hard year for productivity
• Published more than 100 episodes of Syntax

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