In 2019, Expect…
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Hopefully, more of this to come. “Stepping away from Sass”.
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Still, a good idea to keep an eye on and learn about the upcoming additions (and potential additions) to CSS via https://cssdb.org
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The WebP image format from Google could reach support from all modern browsers this year.
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Prepack will continue to cook.
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GraphQL will continue to gain massive adoption.
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The “State of JavaScript” survey authors will add a “State of CSS” survey in 2019.
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Keep an eye on Web Animations API.
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Someone you know will try and convince you to use TypeScript.
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Babel will get some competition from swc-project.
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The case for, JAMStack’s will continue.
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Chasing the one code base to many platforms will continue.
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More developers will turn to languages like ReasonML over JavaScript/TypeScript for large code bases.
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More, largely used projects will start to shed jQuery in favor of native DOM solutions.
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Web Components! At this point, I have no idea how Web Components will play out. Reality is they are not
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going away, and they have not gained a lot of momentum/usage once the hype ended.
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