Web Development in 2017 && a look ahead at 2018 🍾🍷

What happened in web development in 2017? What were our personal and professional feats in 2017? What should we look forward to in 2018?
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The Show Notes! 02:00
Scott's 2017 Look Back
Scott is a new parent
Dealing with kids who don't sleep
Scott's Breakdancing Gains
05:20
Wes' Look Back
Taking Health Seriously
First full year of Wes doing tutorials full time
Course Correction VS Goals
Course Platform Improvements
Lots of Email Marketing
Migration to Drip
09:10
Scott cut ties with startup
100% Invested in Levelup Tutorials
Major Platform improvements
New Payment Gateways
Lots of new Series - 400 videos!
11:25
We Launched Syntax!
Thank you!
The show is getting good (we think?)
13:50
Wes launched his Learn Node Course
Wes updated his ES6 for Everyone Course
Lots of feedback on Wes' JavaScript30 course
Stickers!
16:20
Goals for 2018
The Yacht Club
S.M.A.R.T. Goals
18:00
Scott's 2018 Goals
More videos
More Youtube
Building a Set
Less Overtime
20:35
Wes' 2018 Goals
Releasing lots and lots of Content
CSS Grid
VS Code
Some ideas around JavaScript and CSS Courses (tweet Wes your feedback)
If it's not a Hell Yes, it's a no
Double down on what works
New Checkout Experience
Delegate + Automate
Get faster at recording
29:40
JavaScript in 2018
SSR Frameworks: Next.js, Gatsby, Nuxt.js
ParcelJS
Tooling is becoming less of a pain in the ass
33:00
GraphQL Is Blowin' Upppppp
Typed Languages / Typings
Flow / Typescript / ReasonML / GraphQL Typings
38:00
WordPress' Gutenberg Editor
41:00
React Patent's Dropped
Vue became really popular
45:30
CSS Changes!
CSS Grid
Firefox CSS Grid Dev Tools
48:50
Componentized CSS
Design Systems
Figma
CSS Variables
54:00
VS Code became very popular
55:00
The Iron Yard shut down
58:00
Progressive Web Apps
59:00
What do we hope for in 2018?
Sick Picks Scott: Google Daydream

Wes: Missive

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