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863: 2024: A Year in ReviewScott and Wes look back at 2024 and share highlights from a big year for Syntax and the web dev world. They review their 2024 predictions to see what they got right (and wrong), and break down the major moments in web development from CSS improvements to AI editors and beyond. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:30 Changes to the Syntax podcast. 05:56 What happened this year? 06:07 React. 06:36 Solid Start. 07:04 Tanstack Start. 07:43 Remix 09:42 AI Editors. 11:53 Vite 6. 14:02 Bluesky. 19:52 CSS. 22:17 What did we do? 22:21 React Miami. React Miami Episode. 22:26 JSNation Amsterdam. 23:55 JSNation US + React Summit. 24:57 Terminal Feud. 26:28 Laravel + Terminal basketball game. 27:02 Syntax San Francisco meetup. 27:23 GitHub Universe. 28:07 FITC. 28:38 153 Syntax Episodes + Video. 29:32 Our 2024 Predictions Reviewed. 29:46 Types in JS will have real movement. 31:29 Temporal API will ship in 1 browser. 32:50 Perf tooling gets easy for everyone to understand. 33:29 CSS continues to get better where you need less JS. 34:25 Svelte v5 is very fast. 34:38 The year of the server in frameworks. 35:28 Astro is going to have a good year. 36:13 React server components. 37:03 Remix moves away from page-based loaders, to component loaders. 37:18 Hono will become more ubiquitous. 38:28 We will see a route matching Proposal move ahead. 39:23 Bun releases full node compat. 40:42 We will see a new Linter + formatter entirely replace. 42:16 New TypeScript typechecker. Ezno. 43:40 Lightning CSS pops - or does it? 45:10 You’ll hear more about Rspack and Turbopack. 45:51 Vite isn’t going to release anything big in 2024. 46:24 Relative color will land in all major browsers. 48:14 CSS contrast-color will land in chrome. 48:48 Scroll animation landing in 2 browsers. 50:03 The year of CSS discovery. 51:09 Safari will Ship 3 missing PWA Support. 52:11 Firefox usage will continue to slip. 56:53 Paid Arc features. 57:14 More XR web experiences as Apple releases in Vision Pro. 59:55 AI Tooling. 01:00:57 Small Models that run in the browser. 01:01:38 Apps get Sherlocked by OpenAI. 01:02:04 On prem corporate AI. 01:04:49 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Scott: TCGPocket App. Wes: Huge Bag of Croc Charms Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax on YouTube. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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866: 2025 Web Development PredictionsScott and Wes look into their crystal ball to predict what’s coming in web development next year. From the rise of on-device AI to the vanilla CSS comeback, Bun’s big moves, and React’s evolution, this episode is packed with bold predictions and hot takes! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:00 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 03:09 The agenda. 03:40 Temporal Javascript api will ship in Safari and Chrome. Temporal Proposal. 06:23 On device AI. WebGPU API Dawn Native WebGPU 10:26 Models will plateau. Bolt.new, v0, Lovable.dev. 13:40 Web Awesome will become the most used web components library. Web Awesome. 15:57 We will be using more web components. 16:59 A push towards the ‘standard stack’. 19:38 We can really use relative color. 21:39 Vanilla CSS comeback. 23:35 A complete Mixins / Functions API for CSS. 24:27 Conditionals will ship in all browsers. 25:50 People will still make vertical centering jokes. 27:08 VSCode will be feature parity with Cursor. 28:22 Framework choice will matter less with AI tools. 29:12 OpenAI will launch a browser. Dupe.com. Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy. Krazy Binz. 37:18 React will drop Babel. BabelJS. 38:05 React Server Components will pop. 39:46 Remix will relaunch as something entirely different. 41:11 React Native will have it’s time. 42:06 Svelte will get component-based islands or data loading. 44:19 Server Runtimes, Bun will continue to do non-standard, lovable things. 44:44 Bun will release a PAS to compete with NPM, Vercel, and Vite. 46:06 Laravel will release a CMS. 47:57 Vite will stay king. 48:03 Rolldown ships in the next version of Vite. Rolldown. Statamic. 49:35 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Scott: PHILIPS A19 Ultra Definition Dimmable Light Bulb. Wes: Stats App. Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax on YouTube. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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