In this second part episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott continue talking about the 2021 State of JavaScript survey: mobile and desktop libraries, testing, monorepo, runtimes, flavors of JavaScript, and more!

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Show Notes

00:10 Welcome
01:20 Scott’s new sound panels
03:32 Instacart
2021 State of JS Survey
Tauri
07:46 Mobile and Desktop libraries
13:50 Testing
Vitest
Playwright
Cypress
19:48 Sponsor: Sentry
21:26 Monorepo tooling
27:00 Sponsor: Sanity.io
28:18 JavaScript Runtimes
30:51 JavaScript Flavors
32:32 Non JavaScript Languages
39:38 Utilities
Syntax 401: Monorepo
pnpm
Turborepo
40:19 Resources
Syntax.fm 403: JavaScript in 2022 - New, Coming and Proposed Features
43:18 Opinions
47:21 Features missing from JavaScript
49:30 Awards
52:58 Sponsor: Freshbooks
53:38 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS
56:41 Shameless Plugs

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