January 8th, 2025 × #AI#React#2025

2025 Web Development Predictions

In this 2025 web development predictions episode, Scott and Wes make guesses about what will happen in AI, React, CSS, Svelte, servers, and more over the next couple years.

Show Notes Transcript

Scott and Wes look into their crystal ball to predict what's coming in web development next year. From the rise of on-device AI to the vanilla CSS comeback, Bun’s big moves, and React’s evolution, this episode is packed with bold predictions and hot takes!

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
02:00 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
03:09 The agenda.
03:40 Temporal Javascript api will ship in Safari and Chrome.
- Temporal Proposal.
06:23 On device AI.
- WebGPU API
- Dawn Native WebGPU
10:26 Models will plateau.
- Bolt.new, v0, Lovable.dev.
13:40 Web Awesome will become the most used web components library.
- Web Awesome.
15:57 We will be using more web components.
16:59 A push towards the 'standard stack'.
19:38 We can really use relative color.
21:39 Vanilla CSS comeback.
23:35 A complete Mixins / Functions API for CSS.
24:27 Conditionals will ship in all browsers.
25:50 People will still make vertical centering jokes.
27:08 VSCode will be feature parity with Cursor.
28:22 Framework choice will matter less with AI tools.
29:12 OpenAI will launch a browser.
- Dupe.com.
- Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy.
- Krazy Binz.
37:18 React will drop Babel.
- BabelJS.
38:05 React Server Components will pop.
39:46 Remix will relaunch as something entirely different.
41:11 React Native will have it's time.
42:06 Svelte will get component-based islands or data loading.
44:19 Server Runtimes, Bun will continue to do non-standard, lovable things.
44:44 Bun will release a PAS to compete with NPM, Vercel, and Vite.
46:06 Laravel will release a CMS.
47:57 Vite will stay king.
48:03 Rolldown ships in the next version of Vite.
- Rolldown.
- Statamic.
49:35 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.

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