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Pendulum Swings & 2023’s State of JS

July 10, 2024 Jared White & Ayush Newatia Episode 20
Pendulum Swings & 2023’s State of JS
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Pendulum Swings & 2023’s State of JS
Jul 10, 2024 Episode 20
Jared White & Ayush Newatia

Whoa, there was one more “State of” survey from 2023 to mine for content! Who knew? Yes, the results are in, and we talk about them…but more broadly, our feelings about the state of web frameworks in our industry and the much-ballyhooed pendulum swing back to server-side rendering and HTML-first techniques (though the rate of change is perhaps not what we might wish for).

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

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Whoa, there was one more “State of” survey from 2023 to mine for content! Who knew? Yes, the results are in, and we talk about them…but more broadly, our feelings about the state of web frameworks in our industry and the much-ballyhooed pendulum swing back to server-side rendering and HTML-first techniques (though the rate of change is perhaps not what we might wish for).

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

Introduction
Weather Report™
Our 3rd "State of" episode
Demographics, diversity…ugh
JS language pain points…wherefore TypeScript?
Browser API pain points
Ayush explains to us an utterly inscrutable chart
S-tier technologies (yay for esbuild!)
Frontend frameworks (hoo boy…)
Are you feeling happy?
The sorry state of web platform education
Framework pain points (React! uhhh…)
Next.js angst, Astro's remarkable ascendance
Build tooling, JS vs. TS balance
Our personal JavaScript vibes
Looking ahead to future surveys
Outro