2021 Predictions

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Wes: Everything going forward should be ESM 05:44 - Wes: Remote work will grow Whole new talent pool opens up Whole new living situations open up 08:23 - Scott: Deno will grow Deno 101 for Web Developers

11:12 - Wes: Tooling will fade away Less setup, more behind the scenes Rome

Deno Linter Formatter Transpiler Tester Parcel2

Snowpack

Nextjs

14:14 - Scott: Greater usage of other languages to build Javascript esbuild

Rust

Go

19:35 - Wes: Programming communities will gain traction Github Discussions

Forem

Circle

spectrum

Discourse

23:25 - Scott: More WASM Mongo

Spline

27:19 - Typescript Wes: Typescript will become more popular Scott: Tooling will get better VS Code

29:37 - React Scott: Scoped CSS in React will evolve SSR and hydration will be better Wes: People will fall out of love with React Or more magic will get added to React 32:52 - Scott: More web component frameworks Stencil

33:17 - Scott: Markdown and mdx-like frameworks will skyrocket in use 33:59 - Wes: Gatsby Hosted GraphQL / SSR / Render on demand Solve the pain of long build times Syntax 308: Gatsby vs Next.js in 2021

Next.js

35:24 - Scott: AR tech will grow Target AR app

36:38 - Wes: AI will become accessible Something as easy as a search result RTX Voice

38:43 - VS Code Scott: It will continue dominating Cloud and shared coding env will become better Figma

Wes: Github Codespaces

40:18 - CSS Wes: Color functions More use of built-in features Scoped CSS Scott: People are going to love and use CSS variables Modern CSS Design Systems Course 42:39 - Serverless Scott: Ease of use will get better and better Wes: Netlify Vercel 45:30 - Wes: Enterprise Jamstack will become a thing Cloudflare hosting Next.js Gatsby Sapper SvelteKit 46:30 - PWAs might become more popular Apple will never want you to go around the app store ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Ted Lasso

Wes: Neewer Dimmable Bi-Color LED

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