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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