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

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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

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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

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Transformers.js

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