Breaking down the State of CSS/JS (JS Party #160)

KBall hangs with Nick and Jerod to analyze and discuss the trends of the web world according to the latest State of CSS and State of JS survey results.

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Featuring:

• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Segment 1

• State of JS 2020
• State of CSS 2020
• Sacha Greif
• Raphaël Benitte
• State of JS Common Criticisms

Segment 2

• Why do people complain so much about CSS?
• Episode on tailwind
• Object-fit
• Material UI
• BEM
• CSS Custom Properties as state
• Houdini

Segment 3

• Next.js
• Nuxt.js
• Gatsby
• Svelte <3 TypeScript
• Testing Library
• ESBuild

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!