In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about tech to watch in 2020 — things you should keep an eye on and learn this year!

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Show Notes

6:39 - CSS Subgrid

8:10 - CSS Houdini

11:20 - CSS features not supported in older browsers yet

Scrollsnap - IE 11 and up. Lot’s of mobile issues.
position:sticky - no IE at all

14:24 - NPM tink

installer-less npm
Load packages at runtime into a shared cache across all projects
Intelligently download the parts you need

17:25 - Yarn PnP

Hard links to eliminate package duplication
Shared cache across all projects

18:31 - Pika & Snowpack

21:10 - Deno

New Node?

25:39 - React

Suspense in more libraries
Suspense for Server Rendering
Meteor
- New ownership. v1.9 just dropped with lots of promise for future growth
Svelte 3
Vue 3
Apollo
Next.js

36:37 - Serverless

Going to get easier
Begin.com
Next.js / Now Functions

38:14 - Gatsby

A single useQuery (made possible by suspense)

39:36 - Headless CMS Thunderdome

42:20 - Next Gen Frameworks

Keystone
Strapi
Meteor
Vulcan.js

43:46 - Cypress

End to end testing
Currently no Firefox support, but hopeful for 2020

44:21 - Modulz

Exports to JS component

45:00 - Figma

Was already amazing in 2019
Constantly improving and adding new features
Can import from Sketch

Links

Syntax 109: CSS Grid Level 2 aka Subgrid
CSS Houdini
Interactive Introduction to CSS Houdini
Tweetdeck
Next Generation Package Management
tink
Pika
Yarn PnP
Syntax 212: Pika Pkg
Snowpack
Entropic
Deno
Ryan Dahl - 10 Things I regret About Node.js
https://github.com/denoland/deno
Cloudflare
Hover
Meteor
Meteor roadmap
tiny
Svelte 3
Apollo
Nextjs
Vue
Begin
Firefox
Keystone
Strapi
Vulcan.js
Prisma
Hasura
Syntax 209: Hasty Treat - Wes Teaches Scott about Keystone.js
Cypress
Modulz
Framer
Figma
Sketch
James Quick YouTube Channel

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