2017

My personal preferences for Development and Tech Expectations in 2017.

Defaults

Default Settings and Practises for Development, Languages, Frameworks and Projects.

Elixir

• Version 1.4

JavaScript

• Prefer Yarn to npm as package mananger in projects
• Favour npm scripts over gulp/grunt
• Use webpack 2.2 with it's own module
• Use Babel for everything
• Node v7
• Node v6 if LTS is required
• React
• Angular 2
• Ionic 2
• Jasmine & jest for JS Testing
• Add a service-worker

Rails

• Rails 5

Swift

Stop writing code in Objective-C and use Swift 3.

CSS

• ITCSS & BEM
• SCSS
• PostCSS
• Autoprefixer
• Bootstrap 4
• Don't use any less

PHP

PHP 7.1 > 5.6 Wordpress 4.7 twentyseventeen

Server

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• HTTP2
• HTTPS
• IPv6 Support
• (Automatation with ansible)

Code Editors

vim > vscode > atom > sublime

Static pages

jekyll > middleman Hosting on Firebase, GitHub ...

Expectations

I expect to happen following events.

• react will still be big
• Angular 2 coverage will grow
• Vue.js will grow alot
• A new Redux/MobX will appear
• webpack 2 will be big
• elixir/phoenix community will stronly grow
• Swift Package Manager will be cool
• Amazon will ship more packages with Drones (not in Germany though)

Experiments

Technologies I want to try out and play around with.

• Switching from vim to Spacemacs
• Switching back to fish
• Using asdf-vm for all my languages (elixir, node, ruby ...)
• Update Software more often

We will meet in the end of 2017 to see how things turned out.