What’s on the Horizon for UI and JS?
Solomon Hawk, Senior Developer,
Nathan Schmidt, Senior UI Developer,
Henry Bley-Vroman, Former Senior UI Developer,
Nick Telsan, Developer,
Andrew Thomas, Former JavaScript Developer,
Chris Manning, Development Director,
Jeremy Frank, Former UI Development Director, and
Nathan Long, Senior UI Developer
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The Viget UI and JS developers are always looking ahead. Here are some exciting things we’re keeping our eyes on.
A unified development toolkit for the web
Newer JS frameworks advancing modern ideas like partial hydration, islands architecture, minimizing JS sent to browsers, edge rendering, and more
End-to-end type-safe APIs powered by tRPC, and the recent v10 release
Remix, and a realignment back towards web standards in JS frameworks
Data loading and actions in the new React Router v6.4, lifted from Remix, the end of "spinnerpocalypse"?
Meta-frameworks delivering features based around React Server Components, making SSR more performant and accessible while shipping less JS to users
Astro and the Q4 Roadmap including per-page static vs server, Vitest support
HTML "extensions" that bring new power and expressiveness to structured documents with minimal developer and runtime overhead
Small-footprint DOM API-based reactivity libraries
- petite-vue
- Reef
- second wave of Alpine.js and/or Stimulus
Zero (or minimal) runtime CSS-in-JS
- Linaria
- Stitches
- vanilla-extract
- stylex (unreleased), or an early open source implementation of some the ideas
The death of webpack (with love and respect), and the rise of esbuild and Vite
RedwoodJS post-1.0 roadmap
JetBrains next-gen IDE Fleet
Codux, a React IDE
Bun, a fast all-in-one JS runtime
Ongoing improvements and new features in Prisma
A class of excellent tools for managing monorepos
Tools that make managing cross-platform containerized local development easier
The latest version of Storybook, including support for using vite as a bundler
Advancements in web component ergonomics
The arrival of modern JS capability in the static-first space
The latest release of GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform)
New features coming to CSS
Polishing atomic CSS (not new, but still great)
Reimagining atomic CSS
Better tools for web animation
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