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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