State of JS 2023

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Following from our latest Dispatches episode I would like to announce that @sacha has released the annual State of JS survey!

I would like to encourage everyone to take it to learn more about the rest of the ecosystem and potential new features in JavaScript which we might get with Meteor 3 or that we should watch out for (like Temporal).

But above all make sure to select Meteor in Other Tools → Back-end Frameworks

What were some of the interesting thing that you have found in the survey?

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My notes:

  • Logical Assignments will be available in Meteor 3
  • Will have to look more into Logical Assignments and Nullish Coalescing (which we can already use in Meteor 2) and when to use each most efficiently.
  • Web Speech API looks interesting for Literary Universe
  • Broadcast Channel API is something to look into where new browser windows are open. I recall I once tried to implement it to OAuth, but run into some limits.
  • Can’t wait for Temporal to get into production
  • HTMX has been talked about a bit. Will have to take a look into this.
  • Mock Service Worker will have to take a look on that to cover service worker testing.
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Interesting list. Talk about it on Episode 16?

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Maybe I’m missing the point, but since when are all those static website generators under Other Tools → Back-end Frameworks “back-end frameworks”? The creator of this survey either wants to please every web development shop in town, or can’t bear having only a handful of options on that page.

This is not a question directed at you. Just pondering…

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For HTMX, how much of current Meteor client bundle can it replace? For example, replacing Jade, Blaze, etc? It could make client bundle smaller. Some HTMX examples can handle a lot more data at browser than React.

Could there be some “meteor create --htmx” that has all HTMX examples working with meteor?

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I only had a brief look at HTMX but would love to see an example of Meteor using it :clap:

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I was today watching Storyteller’s stream, and I agree that HTMX looks like React. I have not yet used HTMX or React at all, I also prefer more clear looking code. So I’m not yet qualified enough to comment yet, would those be improvement or not. In general, I prefer plain HTML/CSS/JS, without magic, if possible.

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