What happened in web development in 2017? What were our personal and professional feats in 2017? What should we look forward to in 2018?

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The Show Notes!

02:00

• Scott's 2017 Look Back
• Scott is a new parent
• Dealing with kids who don't sleep
• Scott's Breakdancing Gains

05:20

• Wes' Look Back
• Taking Health Seriously
• First full year of Wes doing tutorials full time
• Course Correction VS Goals
• Course Platform Improvements
• Lots of Email Marketing
• Migration to Drip

09:10

• Scott cut ties with startup
• 100% Invested in Levelup Tutorials
• Major Platform improvements
• New Payment Gateways
• Lots of new Series - 400 videos!

11:25

• We Launched Syntax!
• Thank you!
• The show is getting good (we think?)

13:50

• Wes launched his Learn Node Course
• Wes updated his ES6 for Everyone Course
• Lots of feedback on Wes' JavaScript30 course
• Stickers!

16:20

• Goals for 2018
• The Yacht Club
• S.M.A.R.T. Goals

18:00

• Scott's 2018 Goals
• More videos
• More Youtube
• Building a Set
• Less Overtime

20:35

• Wes' 2018 Goals
• Releasing lots and lots of Content
• CSS Grid
• VS Code
• Some ideas around JavaScript and CSS Courses (tweet Wes your feedback)
• If it's not a Hell Yes, it's a no
• Double down on what works
• New Checkout Experience
• Delegate + Automate
• Get faster at recording

29:40

• JavaScript in 2018
• SSR Frameworks: Next.js, Gatsby, Nuxt.js
• ParcelJS
• Tooling is becoming less of a pain in the ass

33:00

• GraphQL Is Blowin' Upppppp
• Typed Languages / Typings
• Flow / Typescript / ReasonML / GraphQL Typings

38:00

• WordPress' Gutenberg Editor

41:00

• React Patent's Dropped
• Vue became really popular

45:30

• CSS Changes!
• CSS Grid
• Firefox CSS Grid Dev Tools

48:50

• Componentized CSS
• Design Systems
• Figma
• CSS Variables

54:00

• VS Code became very popular

55:00

• The Iron Yard shut down

58:00

• Progressive Web Apps

59:00

• What do we hope for in 2018?

Sick Picks

• Scott: Google Daydream

Wes: Missive

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