In 2018 expect…
- Nothing will change or slow the usage or popularity of React for many years to come.
- GraphQL will a lot of REST API’s this year.
- The web will continue to become more native-like with offline capabilities and seamless mobile experiences.
- HTML 5.3 is coming.
- Keep an eye on /introducing-turbo-5x-faster-than-yarn-npm-and-runs-natively-in-browser-cc2c39715403">turbo, a blazing fast NPM client.
- Expect to learn and use CSS transforms 3d, , CSS flexbox, , CSS grid
- Still waiting on to peak. This will likely require tooling.
- Universal/isomorphic JavaScript solutions continue to evolve e.g. and Sapper.
- Web components still lurk and wait for significant traction from developers.
- I believe the end is in sight for as PostCSS, , and CSS in JS take over.
- Older server centric application patterns show but with a spin. The pendulum could to swinging away from strick SPA applications. People will begin to and return to things like pjax (A mix of SPA and Server-side Rendering. See ).
- Progressive Web Applications hopefully will catch fire. If they don’t, I fear they never will. At least not in there current form.
- Vue.js /core-vs-angular-vs-react-vs-vue">usage will likely overtake all Angular usage.
- AR/AV, AI, and chat bots will continue to evolve and find there sweet spot.
- JavaScript and Generators will likely go unnoticed by most front-end developers.
- More developers will divorce themselves from plain JavaScript and try marry . But, just like in marital divorce one always takes most of the same problems with them to the greener grass and little actually changes. Preferences and values just get re-prioritized and history will repeat itself.
- Webpack 4 will happen, and be better, due to competition!
- Continued for the ideal CSS solution for a tree of UI components will not cease.