In this episode Wes and Scott take a look back at 2018 as well as a look forward to what’s coming in 2019.

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Show Notes

3:00 - What was hot in 2018?

Tooling got easier
GraphQL got easier and more accessible
New GraphQL companies left and right
CSS has gotten more awesome
React
Improvement in React Dev Tools
JavaScript frameworks overall
Edge adopting Chrome engine
Microsoft bought Github
Vue continues to impress and evolve
VS Code continued to get amazing

31:29 - Predictions for 2019

Headless CMS game is going to get really real
We’re gonna see rails for JavaScript start making some noise
React will continue to see growth
Design tools will get more code-y (Figma, etc.)
VueJS will continue to see growth
Developer Experience Tools will continue to get easier
Wasm
Code splitting easier
ES6 Modules in Node
Server Side Hot reloading

41:00 - Scott’s Year in Review

Released 12 courses
Major growth in Level Up as a platform
Hired first employees to work and grow site
Greatly improved quality and video production
Gave first conf talks and spoke internationally

44:03 - Wes’ Year in Review

Released two courses - CSS Grid and Advanced React
Started work on JavaScript course
Delegated lots of development to contractor
Continued to work well with assistant
Spoke at lots of confs
Live Syntax!
Grew Instagram
Continued hot tips on twitter

47:00 - BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

We’re both having babies!

48:09 - Wes’ Goals for 2019

Keep doing what I’m doing!
New Website!
JavaScript course
Platform upgrades - been in the works for months - working on a faster rollout
CSS course? VS Code course? More React?
8 YouTube Videos
Instagram to 30k
Parental Leave

52:26 - Scott’s Goals for 2019

Courses
First non-Scott LUT courses (big plans / announcements here )
Parental Leave
Major platform updates that are stuck in bottleneck
More hires, more growth
More free content
More teaching from real world code
Codebase to Hooks & Suspense

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