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02:06 - ESM

• Scott: It’s going to be big
  • Snowpack
• Wes: Everything going forward should be ESM

05:44 - Wes: Remote work will grow

• Whole new talent pool opens up
• Whole new living situations open up

08:23 - Scott: Deno will grow

• Deno 101 for Web Developers

11:12 - Wes: Tooling will fade away

• Less setup, more behind the scenes
• Rome
• Deno
  • Linter
  • Formatter
  • Transpiler
  • Tester
• Parcel2
• Snowpack
• Nextjs

14:14 - Scott: Greater usage of other languages to build Javascript

• esbuild
• Rust
• Go

19:35 - Wes: Programming communities will gain traction

• Github Discussions
• Forem
• Circle
• spectrum
• Discourse

23:25 - Scott: More WASM

• Mongo
• Spline

27:19 - Typescript

• Wes: Typescript will become more popular
• Scott: Tooling will get better
  • VS Code

29:37 - React

• Scott:
  • Scoped CSS in React will evolve
  • SSR and hydration will be better
• Wes:
  • People will fall out of love with React
  • Or more magic will get added to React

32:52 - Scott: More web component frameworks

• Stencil

33:17 - Scott: Markdown and mdx-like frameworks will skyrocket in use

33:59 - Wes: Gatsby

• Hosted GraphQL / SSR / Render on demand
• Solve the pain of long build times
• Syntax 308: Gatsby vs Next.js in 2021
• Next.js

35:24 - Scott: AR tech will grow

• Target AR app

36:38 - Wes: AI will become accessible

• Something as easy as a search result
• RTX Voice

38:43 - VS Code

• Scott:
  • It will continue dominating
  • Cloud and shared coding env will become better
  • Figma
• Wes:
  • Github Codespaces

40:18 - CSS

• Wes:
  • Color functions
  • More use of built-in features
  • Scoped CSS
• Scott:
  • People are going to love and use CSS variables
  • Modern CSS Design Systems Course

42:39 - Serverless

• Scott:
  • Ease of use will get better and better
• Wes:
  • Netlify
  • Vercel

45:30 - Wes: Enterprise Jamstack will become a thing

• Cloudflare hosting
• Next.js
• Gatsby
• Sapper
• SvelteKit

46:30 - PWAs might become more popular

• Apple will never want you to go around the app store

• Scott: Ted Lasso
• Wes: Neewer Dimmable Bi-Color LED

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