The Future of Web Development: Our Predictions for 2023
by Chelsea Hagon, Senior Developer
1. AI Assisted Development
With the launch of Github Copilot in 2022 the industry got its first glimpse at what it would look like to have Stack Overflow plumbed straight into your IDE. Copilot has given thousands of developers what they always longed for: plausible deniability over the bugs they write.
2. Rendering Patterns
To server render or not to server render? In 2022 the owners of the internet decided that instead of making this choice once for your whole application, now you will need to decide every time you write a new component.
3. JS Runtimes
Because choosing a JS runtime was one of the only areas where a developer was not paralysed with choice, in early 2020, the creator of Node gave us something new to agonise over. The launch of Deno and Bun heralded the final mutation of JavaScript into a language that can truly run anywhere it was not intended to.
