In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott take a look at the 2021 State of JS survey that was recently published, including demographics, salary, browser APIs, overall happiness, and more!

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Show Notes

2021 State of JS Survey
01:51 Winter birthday fun
05:38 The State of JS survey
07:37 Demographics
09:18 Salary range
09:58 Language features
14:05 Browser APIs
17:36 Custom elements and Shadow DOM
18:18 Page visibility API
19:28 File system API
19:58 Web share API
22:15 Sponsor: Linode
23:12 Libraries
27:30 Stimulus
29:21 Trends
31:32 Happiness with the state of front end frameworks
32:28 Sponsor: LogRocket
34:04 Backend Frameworks
38:16 Backend tool satisfaction
44:35 Happiness of build tools
46:32 Sponsor: Freshbooks
48:27 The best podcast in web development
49:05 Sick Picks

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