In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott look at the the Web Almanac’s report on the role of JavaScript on the web in 2022.

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Show Notes

• 00:11 Welcome
• 01:17 College football update
• 04:07 Web almanac for 2022
• JavaScript in the 2022 Web Almanac
• 06:25 Unused JavaScript
• 07:47 JavaScript requests per page
• 09:38 Bundlers
• 14:01 Pages using Babel
• 16:01 How JavaScript is requested
• 19:22 Sponsor: Sentry
• 20:56 Loading render blocking tags
• 22:48 Dynamic import, web workers, source maps
• 24:33 Libraries and frameworks
• Owl Carousel
• Lazy Sizes
• 29:30 Websites using web components
• 31:35 Websites with JavaScript security issues
• 32:43 Sponsor: Auth0
• 33:58 Jamstack
• 37:09 JavaScript used by Jamstack sites
• 38:03 Jamstack hosting
• 39:46 Popular Static site generators
• 44:49 Progressive web apps and service workers
• 50:29 jQuery inside WordPress themes
• WeCrashed
• 51:13 Project Fugu
• Project Fugu
• 52:51 Web push notifications
• 55:49 CMSs
• 00:45 Sponsor: Freshbooks
• 01:40 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: White Lotus
• Wes: Ubiquiti

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