2020 Look-back Top Development Trends + Goals

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• JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer at a small analytics startup

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✅ 2020 Developer Goals

2020 Review

JP

• Goal 1 (JP): Build Elixir App: (C+)
  • I did build a really quick proof of concept Rust API that spits out some JSON
  • I also followed a tutorial for a full stack Golang app
• Goal 2 (JP): System Design (F)
  • Did not read the books that I wanted to read
• Goal 3 (JP): Algorithms - (C+)
  • Just haven't had the time - but I have reviewed some array based algorithms FWIW

John

• Goal 1 (John): Blog More (C+) (12+ posts)
• Goal 2 (John): (F) System Design (Nope)
• Goal 3 (John): JavaScript (B+) 2 Courses, built way more shit in JS Stimulus Mainly
• Goal 4 (John): Focus 💯 (Closed agency, no more clients, doubled down on what I am good at)

Top 2020 Trends (From John)

• Remote Work 😷
  • Remote jobs used to have a requirement of having remote experience... now everyone has this experience
• Commercialization of Open source 🤑
  • "Open source" that's also a product / company
  • https://www.gatsbyjs.com/
  • https://nextjs.org/ (Vercel)
  • https://www.cypress.io/
  • https://www.sanity.io/
  • https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq
  • Even Microsoft acquisition of Github and continued changes there VS Code → Atom
• "Niche" frameworks 🍾
  • https://svelte.dev/
  • https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine
    • This is Tailwinds' go-to for a JS solution
    • bridgetown
• "Hey" made server rendered sexy again 👋
• JavaScript continued to eat the world 🍽️
  • Vue 3 added a composition API that's very similar to React Hooks
• Low Code / No Code ✨
  • https://bubble.io/
  • https://pipedream.com/
  • https://stacker.app/
• Data warehousing 🤓
  • https://www.tableau.com/
  • https://mode.com/
  • https://looker.com/

Picks

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