In this episode Wes and Scott take a look back at 2018 as well as a look forward to what’s coming in 2019.

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Show Notes

3:00 - What was hot in 2018?

• Tooling got easier
• GraphQL got easier and more accessible
• New GraphQL companies left and right
• CSS has gotten more awesome
• React
• Improvement in React Dev Tools
• JavaScript frameworks overall
• Edge adopting Chrome engine
• Microsoft bought Github
• Vue continues to impress and evolve
• VS Code continued to get amazing

31:29 - Predictions for 2019

• Headless CMS game is going to get really real
• We’re gonna see rails for JavaScript start making some noise
• React will continue to see growth
• Design tools will get more code-y (Figma, etc.)
• VueJS will continue to see growth
• Developer Experience Tools will continue to get easier
• Wasm
• Code splitting easier
• ES6 Modules in Node
• Server Side Hot reloading

41:00 - Scott’s Year in Review

• Released 12 courses
• Major growth in Level Up as a platform
• Hired first employees to work and grow site
• Greatly improved quality and video production
• Gave first conf talks and spoke internationally

44:03 - Wes’ Year in Review

• Released two courses - CSS Grid and Advanced React
• Started work on JavaScript course
• Delegated lots of development to contractor
• Continued to work well with assistant
• Spoke at lots of confs
• Live Syntax!
• Grew Instagram
• Continued hot tips on twitter

47:00 - BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

• We’re both having babies!

48:09 - Wes’ Goals for 2019

• Keep doing what I’m doing!
• New Website!
• JavaScript course
• Platform upgrades - been in the works for months - working on a faster rollout
• CSS course? VS Code course? More React?
• 8 YouTube Videos
• Instagram to 30k
• Parental Leave

52:26 - Scott’s Goals for 2019

• Courses
• First non-Scott LUT courses (big plans / announcements here )
• Parental Leave
• Major platform updates that are stuck in bottleneck
• More hires, more growth
• More free content
• More teaching from real world code
• Codebase to Hooks & Suspense

Links

• Next.js
• Gatsby
• Parcel
• Hasura
• Prisma
• TakeShape
• GraphCMS
• Contentful
• WPGraphQL
• Apollo
• Github
• VS Code
• Microsoft Edge
• WordPress
• Svelte
• Vue.js
• Syntax 067: Goal Setting

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• Scott: Fake or Fortune?

Wes: Heavyweight

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• Scott’s new course on design systems
• Wes’ Courses

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