The year is 2023. Ben Awad accidentally stumbles into learning SvelteKit 1.0 after watching a Rich Harris video, being immediately captivated by his hair and accent. Ben feels dirty about this, not wanting to offend his lover, React. React whispers gently into Ben’s ear, “It’s okay, Ben. I’ve gained a lot of boilerplate in all my years. I just want you to be happy.” “You know I’ve never cared about that,” trembled Ben. GraphQL walks through the door, forlorn, overhearing the conversation. “While we’re talking about bloat, I saw TRPC at the gym yesterday, and he certainly has less than 8% body fat. I don’t know how he does it.” React cries. Ben cries. GraphQL cries. Zuckerberg cries. It’s been an eventful April for sure.
everyday I see people super hyped about 5674 new things and I feel so behind whenever I hear about something I didn't even know existed. this is relieving tbh. I feel like I'm in a good path with the stack I'm in which is pretty much the same as Ben's : )
Planning to learn more in-depth about the Unix kernel infrastructure and possibly writing kernel drivers for embedded projects! A whole different world than web dev ;)
Learning rust and some video codecs and stuff. I started an ambitious project of making a video editor. I have no prior knowledge in this field, I mostly do web dev and some Flutter for work. However I hope this will be a learning experience, and I already learnt a lot of stuff after just one day of working on this.
I love that you're focused on what is going to be relevant moving forward, and yes I completely took anything blockchain related off my list this year and most likely do the same in 2023.
I find it interesting that because of a crash a lot of you seem to have lost interest... it almost appears to me that you guys are chasing clout :D if you're genuinely interested in the blockchain and related tech I think it is a prime time to learn it.. before another round of clout chasing. I'm going to add it to my 2023 list. Thanks.. rant over
@@dfcw Yup, I generally think "blockchain", "web3" etc is overrated but kinda weak to be interested in it when it's hyped, and then just lose all interest what so ever when it's not hyped
@@dfcw right on brotha. They don’t care about the tech, even though smart contracts and blockchain tech is here to stay and ain’t going anywhere. A bear market shouldn’t sway your opinion on whether to participate or not, most money is made in bears anyway.
Agreed, Ethereum is 7, going on 8 years old and its growth is _waaaay less_ than web2 sites like Facebook and Instagram were over the same time range. Facebook and Instagram each reached 1 billion users over the space of 7 years, TikTok reached 1 billion monthly active users over the space of only 5 years. This comment may or may not age well, but I feel so far 'web3' has been a buzzwordy band-wagon people have jumped on because CZcamsrs like 'Dapp University' make out that you can get an easy 6-figure salary if you spend 2 months learning Solidity or whatever. From what I've seen, the job market for web3 really isn't that large, and the companies on these 'web3 career' sites are either new (1, 2 year old) startups with flashy landing pages or big companies (like Apple, MSFT, etc.) that are only investing a little money into experimenting with it.
@@dfcw Pivoting is not 'chasing clout' - Yes because it was gaining traction and popularity of course we're going to look into it, pivoting is important to remain relevant as a developer, and we can see right now, many developers are pivoting with chatGPT/AI gaining traction and popularity right now
I'd be interested in seeing what your CI/CD flow is and what benefits VSCode with VIM extension has over VIM. I know there are probably a lot but I've tried to switch over and it all seems like extra stuff that I don't need. Maybe I just haven't taken the time to configure things optimally.
In 2022 I learned Neovim and setup my own set of configs. Finally used Svelte again to build a wordle type clone game. Picked up TypeScript to use properly, it has grown on me. Quite enjoyable. Did not do as much Golang as I had hoped, kind of fizzled out when I realised I wouldn't be able to get a Golang job. This year I hope to do more Golang, finally learn K8 and Terraform instead of spamming Serverless framework. Fuck around a bit with SurrealDB and Pocketbase. This is all I can think of so far, thanks for the prompt Ben.
Diving deeper into mobile development, learning more about React Native and Swift to understand the differences more for myself. And definetely pursuing more Game Dev.
This year I’m switching to svelte/sveltekit + tailwind from react/next + mui. I’ve found that as a solo developer there is so much more boilerplate involved with react, and it’s messy passing state around larger applications. Svelte is faster and cleaner to prototype with for me and I enjoy working with it much more. Recently I got interested in circuitry and embedded hardware so I’d like to continue learning about that and work on a playground/sim as a side project. I picked up rust recently to work on solana but the web3 ecosystem is a not so fun environment to work in, especially now that it’s crashed. I would like to find a context to work with and practice rust, maybe WASM, bevy, tauri or microservices. It’s a really enjoyable language to work with. I would really like to learn more about devops and cloud infrastructure. Something about automating workflows is fascinating to me. I would also like to start developing a production-grade SAAS and it would be great to automate deployments and tear downs for clients. I would like to learn more about graphics, especially VFX and procedural animation and generation. rust + wasm + webgl/webgpu could be my go-to for graphics-based projects that require low-overhead. And finally of course AI. I have pretty much neglected learning about how AI functions at a low level so I think I’d start there, at least to be familiar with what’s under the hood. Although I think I’d be much more interested in it’s applications since developing AI is so tedious. And that’s pretty much everything, it’s a long list but I have pretty bad ADHD so I’ll probably learn a little bit of everything 😅
Could you please explain how "it’s messy passing state around larger applications" relates to React. React is library for building UI, and it's not opinionated on state management.
The fact that it’s not opinionated on state management is exactly why it’s messy. In both vuejs and svelte they both have easy to use state management solutions built by the team that everyone uses. It’s the same problem in Flutter. Flutter is not opinionated on state management and so the various solutions are a bit messy and badly documented.
"I would like to find a context to work with and practice rust, maybe WASM, bevy, tauri or microservices. It’s a really enjoyable language to work with." This is me. I used to decide what project to start based on the appeal of the idea. Now I decide based on how easy and interesting it would be to write in Rust.
Hey Ben, haven't tried out React Native but from your experience what are the improvements with React Native since you lasted worked on a project with it? I am undecided about React Native or if I should go the Flutter route despite the fact I am familiar with JavaScript and a little bit of React with the useState and useEffect.. Love to hear your recommendations.
Completely fell off the web3 / blockchain hype as well and have no interest in touching it in 2023. I’m also loving just learning Typescript, NextJS 13, and tailwind in more and more detail 😊 I also stumbled into tRPC this year through the t3 stack and am loving it so far. Was also introduced to Astro for static sites and am loving the simplicity of it - plan to redo my personal site with it this coming year. Other than that, the obligatory AI and also framer motion for a more personalized UI on my current projects. I’ve also been getting into hardware / electronics the past few weeks. Bought myself an Arduino and have been programming it with C++ and PlatformIO on VS Code. It’s making me feel like a kid tinkering around with toys again 😂
Would love it if you could do some more adhoc tutorials on the latest state of your stack. Have built my go-to boiler plate off your old work but just wondering if we need to "freshen" things up a bit (new libraries, new exploits, etc). Would be very interested in your bespoke database API. I love Prisma for the migrations, but there is a lot about it that gets in my way. And yes, I've noticed it doesn't write the best SQL.
Wow amazing timing yesterday only I was watching again your video on "technology I am learning in 2022" and thought are you going to upload the same for 2023
I've really dragged my feet on TypeScript, so I'm going to master it in 2023. I was disappointed to see you chose React for Voidpet but I wouldn't blame you. I hope you'll get to play with Svelte/kit in 2024.
2023: - Algebra & Linear Algebra (dropped out of school early, so want to catch up on this to see if AI makes more sense) - Play around with ChatGPT / Stable diffusion (read the papers and research until it makes sense) - Pytorch (programming 2.0 basically, I wanna solve some issues solely through ML, think binary classification and such) - Use git proficiently (I've been putting this off for way too long) - Create a more lightweight and scalable alternative to Appium for Android if I continue to work in process automation for Android professionally. - Set up an actual decent emu platform for automation instead of using BlueStacks / ldplayer / gphone images through AVD. Lots of side projects planned also, mainly around reverse engineering but it's hard to set any real goals for them. I'm praying I will have a bit more energy this year due to health circumstances but I remain optimistic. Love your videos / updates as always, happy holidays and I wish everyone a successful 2023. 🙏
I forgot about git, I’m gonna have to bite the bullet on that too You should check out 3blue1brown’s series on linear algebra, and algebra if he covers it. It’s top-tier with in-depth explanations that don’t waste ur time and visualizations
@@minnow1337 that's what I was planning to do after I finish the pre algebra course on Khan academy. His channel is indeed amazing. Thank you for the suggestion!
tRPC is suuuuper easy to get started with. Definitely jump on that ASAP. I’d personally like to dive into SvelteKit, and am learning some less cutting edge stuff currently, including Ansible at the moment.
You’ll probably love SvelteKit, the dev experience is very good. Many of the issues I faced with it were due to Vite and some incompatibilities with WASM (compiled to from Rust). Some libraries we’re used to from the React universe are still behind and a few don’t have real alternatives, but we’re getting there. It’s been my go-to for hobby projects and I plan on using it in the corporate environment, too!
I would say sveltekit but it was so easy, I learnt it in 2 weeks. For 2023, I want to get more familiar with cloudflare's offerings...namely: durable objects, D1 and R2
You plan on migrating your nextjs stuff to using the app dir and server components? Curious on your thoughts on the best way to use server components with urql in a way which is actually nice to use.
app dir and server components are currently in beta. I personally believe a decent amount of time will have to pass in order for libraries to adapt to all of this. In my opinion, these aren't ready yet except for the simplest/vanilla examples.
I've been using firebase main products (Functions, Firestore, Auth, Messaging and Analytics) for over 4 years and created successful projects, specially the freelance ones. This year I want to use more firebase tools and start learning AI so I can use it on daily applications and freelance work. I want to finish a personal app project.
I’ve learned trpc, nextjs, prisma and react query. Next year I want to touch on Svelte, even if React is still going to have most jobs, I like how Svelte works and other frameworks are emerging. Also want to touch on C# again, haven’t worked with it since 2019 but some web apis and unity.
Svelte is the ultimate solo dev framework. You should try it on your next hobbyist project I picked it up in a day Do you prefer trpc over the default API route with next? And if so in every context or just on some projects?
For mobile apps have you heard about Ionic? I spent last 6 months building app in ionic + vue for my company and I pretty enjoyed working on it. Not big fan of vue, but you can use ionic with react and it seems to work pretty well.
For me i have 2 goals - gain proficiency in certain tech and also learn a few new technologies I am going to learn Tailwind properly and fully convert to that, learn and gain proficiency in Next13, continue using / learning Docker, continue learning / gaining proficiency in Prisma, properly gain understanding in linting and how that works at a lower level, and get more well rounded in backend / architecture and networking fundamentals. To learn - * TRPC (still use REST but this might be fun for some personal stuff) * GitHub Actions and Jenkins * Tanstack Query * Go (for work purposes but also for future REST API stuff) * Monorepos (specifically Turborepo) * PNPM
I'm learning more angular and various authentication methods and AWS. I'm in automation (selenium c# with web frontend) and need to bring my framework to the cloud ASAP!!
Things i have worked this year: WebSocket Module federation (webpack) Monorepo Docker + kubernetes (basic) Solving security vulnerabilities Nodejs cluster mode Torbit Things i want to explore next year: Caching ( Redis) System design frontend WebSocket - kafkajs React native (have previously worked on Cordova & ionic) Computer vision (Deep learning)
Im in the IT enterprise industry but I am doing coding on the side and the TOP things I want to learn are: * Vue.JS (Frontend) * NodeJS (Backend) * Knex.js (ORM Database for backend) * DevOps (from Techworld with Nana)
My stack is Nextjs, React Native, Sass, Framer Motion Apollo GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Prisma and of course Typescript. I was learnimg Rust for fun, and I want to include it into my stack for backend (just like Ben Awad’s Elixir thing) but maybe I may end up learning Golang, which I didn’t like. And I was using Digitalocean bu this year I want go deep into AWS. And wanna publish some app that people are really gonna use. Do you have any advice or comment? Let’s wait me 2023
Question: You mentioned 'ChatGPT/Stable Diffusion/AI' but what do you mean by this? You mean actually building your own AI models or building conventional full stack applications but using their APIs?
Can you do it in the context React libraries please? There are a libraries that has same functionality like React Query vs SWR, Context vs Zustand vs Redux, do you use UI kit like antd and material ui?
What are your thoughts on Astro and Qwik? Do you see them gaining market share, or simply having their features absorbed into Next and Remix? Also, I'm curious to see how Bun develops in 2023 and if it really will be something to replace Node.
There shouldn't be any reason why next js cannot get their static builder to be equal to astro, and then at that point, why limit yourself to not having all the other rendering (and seo) features next offers.
Should I learn react native or native android, or flutter for mobile development. I have a few experience with native android using java, but currently working as react developer.
Good Video, what I am planning to learn this Year is Chat GPT/AI Models/RPA and Automation/PL-900 with Microsoft Power Automate/and Maybe Programming like Python
Hi Ben, please talk about how annoying it is getting custom Python models running on TensorflowJS React-Native and PlayTorch. It’s like the Wild West right now
I kinda want to expand my dev ops skills: - Ansible -- used it a bit just to experiment, but want to create proper useful scripts - Terraform -- just to see what it's really about, evaluate it a little and maybe actually use it - AWS/Cloudflare -- Just try to learn a bit more about deploying to cloud in general. So far I never truly needed all of it and would deploy to mostly regular VMs on these cloud providers, but not really into specialized services and edge/serverless stuff Other stuff: - Backend -- just get more into backend code in general. Do some stuff with Prisma and whatever database. Build a full app for something, backend and frontend - Rust -- try to learn something a bit more lower level compared to JS/TS. Rust seems to be really interesting for many use cases - React Native -- I've done it looong time ago, would like to actually create something useful with it - Svelte -- I'm curious about Svelte for a long time now, just didn't really force myself to try to learn it. I do like React (most of the time), but I just want to see how others do it and form my own opinion I know I probably won't go through most of these in 2023, but this is a rough overview of my interests.
I think cloud support for rust will really start to pick up this year and it could start to compete with Go in that context. rust also seems like the goto language for WASM.
Feels a bit odd to hear your reason for not wanting to try out Remix. I get not wanting to learn a new JavaScript Framework (there's really too many to even count), but ignoring Remix because it was acquired is a bit hypocritical given NextJS is being supported by Vercel? Overall, I think Remix is doing amazing stuff when it comes to where NextJS has lacked, and is even inspiring teams at NextJS to do better when it comes to nested layouts, server components, fetching data, and much more. It really feels wonderful to use Remix coming from NextJS, and I highly recommend you to give it a good try Ben. You will appreciate it a lot more, especially since you're full-stack but with a strong interest in backend infra. On another note HAPPY NEW YEAR AWAD!!!!
I code embedded stuff in C and wanna learn Rust, but have no use for it. I am now for the first time adding some features I want in an open source mod tool for a game. My intro to coding was MCU so I suck at build environments.
I don't remember what I even had picked out for the year, but I ended up learning how to use redis through ioredis, but not really doing anything with it yet, maybe when I get into discord bots and have a small homeserver to selfhost that stuff. Didn't get around to svelte, been going back and fourth on whether to migrate that old jQuery/PHP project I still want to move off of my webhosting to umbrella+vite or svelte but it seems like I will need to learn vue.js after all this year and possibly get back to PHP after 3-ish years of not really touching it, not that I ever really did much since I've literally not touched any database stuff in a decade and mostly just work with 3rd party APIs for gamedata and such. Basically all been replaced with JS frameworks that now do SSG and have built-in cache busting. My main personal project is and will stay next.js on vercel, I could get a VPS and build my own backend so I can take manually authored data out of the repo, but I think I'll just let it be fully static with ISR to manage hiding old game events and fetching the latest weekly missions. I did learn zod and started migrating to typescript, so I'm a lot more confident with the parsing of all of those yaml files, I'll just keep on slowly migrating everything to zod+ts over the year and maybe add new features here and there if I find the time.
It's been more than a year and Ben still hasn't dropped this project. That's a record.
Does he have a habit of picking things up and dropping things?
@@youtubewts yea, he tends to create startups and drops them to create a new one lol
@@youtubewts just scroll through his vids, youll see
hobbyists are like this. in it to learn.
The year is 2023. Ben Awad accidentally stumbles into learning SvelteKit 1.0 after watching a Rich Harris video, being immediately captivated by his hair and accent. Ben feels dirty about this, not wanting to offend his lover, React.
React whispers gently into Ben’s ear, “It’s okay, Ben. I’ve gained a lot of boilerplate in all my years. I just want you to be happy.”
“You know I’ve never cared about that,” trembled Ben.
GraphQL walks through the door, forlorn, overhearing the conversation. “While we’re talking about bloat, I saw TRPC at the gym yesterday, and he certainly has less than 8% body fat. I don’t know how he does it.”
React cries. Ben cries. GraphQL cries. Zuckerberg cries. It’s been an eventful April for sure.
All who read must upvote 😂
I'm genuinely curious to know if any of you are REALLY not using React because of Zuckerberg.
@@33v4. i think its a joke cause react is waaaay too good not to use cause of literally anything or anyone
@@33v4. No. However, Sweet Baby Ray’s will never taste the same.
@@youssefrabei1937 Svelte is way better than React
watching this video made me realize how many things i did NOT learn in 2022 thanks Ben :')
This should be a pinned comment.
Same here man!
Look who came back for a video, it's been a while buddie
It’s Ben* a while
This is cool. I like this type of videos. It really makes me consciously think about what to spend time on and learning with deliberation. Thanks Ben!
everyday I see people super hyped about 5674 new things and I feel so behind whenever I hear about something I didn't even know existed. this is relieving tbh. I feel like I'm in a good path with the stack I'm in which is pretty much the same as Ben's : )
The highlight of my year was definitely Remix. It's so good! I also learned a ton about backends (always using typescript) and the web platform :)
Welcome back, buddy! My next project is to Terraform my previous nodejs backend services. Thank you!
Thanks for this Video , i kinda knew you would post this before the year ends, Happy New Year Brotha
missed your CZcams videos, shorts felt like a totally different platform. hope you're here to stay
Planning to learn more in-depth about the Unix kernel infrastructure and possibly writing kernel drivers for embedded projects! A whole different world than web dev ;)
Learning rust and some video codecs and stuff. I started an ambitious project of making a video editor. I have no prior knowledge in this field, I mostly do web dev and some Flutter for work. However I hope this will be a learning experience, and I already learnt a lot of stuff after just one day of working on this.
I love that you're focused on what is going to be relevant moving forward, and yes I completely took anything blockchain related off my list this year and most likely do the same in 2023.
I find it interesting that because of a crash a lot of you seem to have lost interest... it almost appears to me that you guys are chasing clout :D if you're genuinely interested in the blockchain and related tech I think it is a prime time to learn it.. before another round of clout chasing. I'm going to add it to my 2023 list. Thanks.. rant over
@@dfcw Yup, I generally think "blockchain", "web3" etc is overrated but kinda weak to be interested in it when it's hyped, and then just lose all interest what so ever when it's not hyped
@@dfcw right on brotha. They don’t care about the tech, even though smart contracts and blockchain tech is here to stay and ain’t going anywhere. A bear market shouldn’t sway your opinion on whether to participate or not, most money is made in bears anyway.
Agreed, Ethereum is 7, going on 8 years old and its growth is _waaaay less_ than web2 sites like Facebook and Instagram were over the same time range. Facebook and Instagram each reached 1 billion users over the space of 7 years, TikTok reached 1 billion monthly active users over the space of only 5 years. This comment may or may not age well, but I feel so far 'web3' has been a buzzwordy band-wagon people have jumped on because CZcamsrs like 'Dapp University' make out that you can get an easy 6-figure salary if you spend 2 months learning Solidity or whatever. From what I've seen, the job market for web3 really isn't that large, and the companies on these 'web3 career' sites are either new (1, 2 year old) startups with flashy landing pages or big companies (like Apple, MSFT, etc.) that are only investing a little money into experimenting with it.
@@dfcw Pivoting is not 'chasing clout' - Yes because it was gaining traction and popularity of course we're going to look into it, pivoting is important to remain relevant as a developer, and we can see right now, many developers are pivoting with chatGPT/AI gaining traction and popularity right now
I'd be interested in seeing what your CI/CD flow is and what benefits VSCode with VIM extension has over VIM. I know there are probably a lot but I've tried to switch over and it all seems like extra stuff that I don't need. Maybe I just haven't taken the time to configure things optimally.
In 2022 I learned Neovim and setup my own set of configs. Finally used Svelte again to build a wordle type clone game. Picked up TypeScript to use properly, it has grown on me. Quite enjoyable. Did not do as much Golang as I had hoped, kind of fizzled out when I realised I wouldn't be able to get a Golang job.
This year I hope to do more Golang, finally learn K8 and Terraform instead of spamming Serverless framework. Fuck around a bit with SurrealDB and Pocketbase. This is all I can think of so far, thanks for the prompt Ben.
Diving deeper into mobile development, learning more about React Native and Swift to understand the differences more for myself. And definetely pursuing more Game Dev.
Would be really interested in seeing how you built your crud interface equivalent of prisma 2 !!
im learning microcontroller this year. wanted to step out of software area a little bit
This year I’m switching to svelte/sveltekit + tailwind from react/next + mui. I’ve found that as a solo developer there is so much more boilerplate involved with react, and it’s messy passing state around larger applications. Svelte is faster and cleaner to prototype with for me and I enjoy working with it much more.
Recently I got interested in circuitry and embedded hardware so I’d like to continue learning about that and work on a playground/sim as a side project.
I picked up rust recently to work on solana but the web3 ecosystem is a not so fun environment to work in, especially now that it’s crashed. I would like to find a context to work with and practice rust, maybe WASM, bevy, tauri or microservices. It’s a really enjoyable language to work with.
I would really like to learn more about devops and cloud infrastructure. Something about automating workflows is fascinating to me. I would also like to start developing a production-grade SAAS and it would be great to automate deployments and tear downs for clients.
I would like to learn more about graphics, especially VFX and procedural animation and generation. rust + wasm + webgl/webgpu could be my go-to for graphics-based projects that require low-overhead.
And finally of course AI. I have pretty much neglected learning about how AI functions at a low level so I think I’d start there, at least to be familiar with what’s under the hood. Although I think I’d be much more interested in it’s applications since developing AI is so tedious.
And that’s pretty much everything, it’s a long list but I have pretty bad ADHD so I’ll probably learn a little bit of everything 😅
Could you please explain how "it’s messy passing state around larger applications" relates to React.
React is library for building UI, and it's not opinionated on state management.
The fact that it’s not opinionated on state management is exactly why it’s messy.
In both vuejs and svelte they both have easy to use state management solutions built by the team that everyone uses.
It’s the same problem in Flutter. Flutter is not opinionated on state management and so the various solutions are a bit messy and badly documented.
Bevy is awesome!
@@hojdog Your comparison is incorrect. Flutter is a framework. React is a library.
"I would like to find a context to work with and practice rust, maybe WASM, bevy, tauri or microservices. It’s a really enjoyable language to work with."
This is me. I used to decide what project to start based on the appeal of the idea. Now I decide based on how easy and interesting it would be to write in Rust.
You should look into using sst for next instead of terraform. It allows you to locally debug lambdas too, which is pretty cool
This video makes me feel better, I only learned fee of the things I set out to learn in 2022 however I did learn alot other technologies
Thank you, Ben.
Hey Ben, could you make a video going into more details on the subject of that tool for Prisma 2? It sounds very interesting
For animations I was looking at Lottie, it lets you make animations in after effects and convert them to web.
My goal for 2023 is to get better at compressing data, especially for game dev. Like using TypedArray instead of Number.
Looking forward to getting my first expert level cloud cert and getting certified in terraform and kubetnetes.
you know if ben uploads a video like this, its the time of the year again
Love it! Thx for sharing
He's back!
what's your opinion on using the managed vs bare workflows from expo (and vanilla react-native) in this year?
Hey Ben, haven't tried out React Native but from your experience what are the improvements with React Native since you lasted worked on a project with it? I am undecided about React Native or if I should go the Flutter route despite the fact I am familiar with JavaScript and a little bit of React with the useState and useEffect.. Love to hear your recommendations.
We have missed your tutorials
Completely fell off the web3 / blockchain hype as well and have no interest in touching it in 2023. I’m also loving just learning Typescript, NextJS 13, and tailwind in more and more detail 😊
I also stumbled into tRPC this year through the t3 stack and am loving it so far. Was also introduced to Astro for static sites and am loving the simplicity of it - plan to redo my personal site with it this coming year.
Other than that, the obligatory AI and also framer motion for a more personalized UI on my current projects. I’ve also been getting into hardware / electronics the past few weeks. Bought myself an Arduino and have been programming it with C++ and PlatformIO on VS Code. It’s making me feel like a kid tinkering around with toys again 😂
Dude, post more often. We missed your content
man I really miss your videos, please upload more
Would love it if you could do some more adhoc tutorials on the latest state of your stack. Have built my go-to boiler plate off your old work but just wondering if we need to "freshen" things up a bit (new libraries, new exploits, etc). Would be very interested in your bespoke database API. I love Prisma for the migrations, but there is a lot about it that gets in my way. And yes, I've noticed it doesn't write the best SQL.
I think you should give Remix a shot, it's really good for anything with a lot of forms
Wow amazing timing yesterday only I was watching again your video on "technology I am learning in 2022" and thought are you going to upload the same for 2023
I've really dragged my feet on TypeScript, so I'm going to master it in 2023.
I was disappointed to see you chose React for Voidpet but I wouldn't blame you. I hope you'll get to play with Svelte/kit in 2024.
2023:
- Algebra & Linear Algebra (dropped out of school early, so want to catch up on this to see if AI makes more sense)
- Play around with ChatGPT / Stable diffusion (read the papers and research until it makes sense)
- Pytorch (programming 2.0 basically, I wanna solve some issues solely through ML, think binary classification and such)
- Use git proficiently (I've been putting this off for way too long)
- Create a more lightweight and scalable alternative to Appium for Android if I continue to work in process automation for Android professionally.
- Set up an actual decent emu platform for automation instead of using BlueStacks / ldplayer / gphone images through AVD.
Lots of side projects planned also, mainly around reverse engineering but it's hard to set any real goals for them.
I'm praying I will have a bit more energy this year due to health circumstances but I remain optimistic.
Love your videos / updates as always, happy holidays and I wish everyone a successful 2023. 🙏
Look at neural nets from scratch book it has videos
I forgot about git, I’m gonna have to bite the bullet on that too
You should check out 3blue1brown’s series on linear algebra, and algebra if he covers it. It’s top-tier with in-depth explanations that don’t waste ur time and visualizations
@@kemalware4912 will do! Looks like a good read, thank you.
@@minnow1337 that's what I was planning to do after I finish the pre algebra course on Khan academy. His channel is indeed amazing. Thank you for the suggestion!
tRPC is suuuuper easy to get started with. Definitely jump on that ASAP.
I’d personally like to dive into SvelteKit, and am learning some less cutting edge stuff currently, including Ansible at the moment.
You’ll probably love SvelteKit, the dev experience is very good. Many of the issues I faced with it were due to Vite and some incompatibilities with WASM (compiled to from Rust).
Some libraries we’re used to from the React universe are still behind and a few don’t have real alternatives, but we’re getting there. It’s been my go-to for hobby projects and I plan on using it in the corporate environment, too!
Ansible is super cool. I'm not a dev, more of an ops guy, but Ansible is one of my fav tools ever.
I would say sveltekit but it was so easy, I learnt it in 2 weeks. For 2023, I want to get more familiar with cloudflare's offerings...namely: durable objects, D1 and R2
100% bro, Svelte is the future
I’d love to see the terraform deployment of NextJS to AWS.
You plan on migrating your nextjs stuff to using the app dir and server components? Curious on your thoughts on the best way to use server components with urql in a way which is actually nice to use.
app dir and server components are currently in beta. I personally believe a decent amount of time will have to pass in order for libraries to adapt to all of this. In my opinion, these aren't ready yet except for the simplest/vanilla examples.
I've been using firebase main products (Functions, Firestore, Auth, Messaging and Analytics) for over 4 years and created successful projects, specially the freelance ones.
This year I want to use more firebase tools and start learning AI so I can use it on daily applications and freelance work.
I want to finish a personal app project.
Solid plan! I approve
Have you looked at drizzle-orm? It looks like a pretty good alternative to Prisma 2 especially when it comes to cleaner SQL
Are you gonna do more videos on voidpets? How you scale what problem you encounter...
Im learning go this year. Any suggestions or opinion. If it's a good thing to do?
happy new year
I'm new to programing I'm just going to learn react , tailwind ,typescript and golang this year
nice, lookin to try out react native and flutter this year and maybe angular!
I'd like to see more of how you use prisma.
Looking back in 2022 resolution i only missed out on web3/Blockchain.
I've heard alot of debate choosing Flutter over React Native ... I'd love to read your opinion for going with React Native
I’ve learned trpc, nextjs, prisma and react query. Next year I want to touch on Svelte, even if React is still going to have most jobs, I like how Svelte works and other frameworks are emerging. Also want to touch on C# again, haven’t worked with it since 2019 but some web apis and unity.
Svelte is the ultimate solo dev framework. You should try it on your next hobbyist project I picked it up in a day
Do you prefer trpc over the default API route with next? And if so in every context or just on some projects?
I was aiming for kubernetes, and Go. Ended up learning C++, openGL and some vulkan.... A complete change in interests in my part!
Vulkan, huh? You have my sympathies. But we game developers need people like you to write the graphical engines for us.
For mobile apps have you heard about Ionic? I spent last 6 months building app in ionic + vue for my company and I pretty enjoyed working on it. Not big fan of vue, but you can use ionic with react and it seems to work pretty well.
What do you use for version controlling database schemas and/or migrating between schema versions?
For me i have 2 goals - gain proficiency in certain tech and also learn a few new technologies
I am going to learn Tailwind properly and fully convert to that, learn and gain proficiency in Next13, continue using / learning Docker, continue learning / gaining proficiency in Prisma, properly gain understanding in linting and how that works at a lower level, and get more well rounded in backend / architecture and networking fundamentals.
To learn -
* TRPC (still use REST but this might be fun for some personal stuff)
* GitHub Actions and Jenkins
* Tanstack Query
* Go (for work purposes but also for future REST API stuff)
* Monorepos (specifically Turborepo)
* PNPM
Nice list!
Things I'm learning:
- python
- azure
- shopify
- webdev (html/css/JS/react)
- tensorflow
I've been trying out Qwik for a small project, it's been really fun. The mindset of differing every bit of code until execution is really fun.
The last thing I wanna do is supporting a company like Builder io.
definitely learning rust and more vim for me this year
I'm learning more angular and various authentication methods and AWS. I'm in automation (selenium c# with web frontend) and need to bring my framework to the cloud ASAP!!
It's a nodejs backend and angular frontend
What's your favorite backend for React Native apps?
Hey Ben, should check out Tanstack Query as a replacement to Urql
Things i have worked this year:
WebSocket
Module federation (webpack)
Monorepo
Docker + kubernetes (basic)
Solving security vulnerabilities
Nodejs cluster mode
Torbit
Things i want to explore next year:
Caching ( Redis)
System design frontend
WebSocket - kafkajs
React native (have previously worked on Cordova & ionic)
Computer vision (Deep learning)
Im in the IT enterprise industry but I am doing coding on the side and the TOP things I want to learn are:
* Vue.JS (Frontend)
* NodeJS (Backend)
* Knex.js (ORM Database for backend)
* DevOps (from Techworld with Nana)
Ben can you do a back end technology list you’d use?
happy new year folks
My stack is Nextjs, React Native, Sass, Framer Motion Apollo GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Prisma and of course Typescript.
I was learnimg Rust for fun, and I want to include it into my stack for backend (just like Ben Awad’s Elixir thing) but maybe I may end up learning Golang, which I didn’t like. And I was using Digitalocean bu this year I want go deep into AWS. And wanna publish some app that people are really gonna use. Do you have any advice or comment?
Let’s wait me 2023
Nice video, only thing I miss is Capacitor
Question: You mentioned 'ChatGPT/Stable Diffusion/AI' but what do you mean by this? You mean actually building your own AI models or building conventional full stack applications but using their APIs?
after a long time
Can you do it in the context React libraries please? There are a libraries that has same functionality like React Query vs SWR, Context vs Zustand vs Redux, do you use UI kit like antd and material ui?
What are your thoughts on Astro and Qwik? Do you see them gaining market share, or simply having their features absorbed into Next and Remix?
Also, I'm curious to see how Bun develops in 2023 and if it really will be something to replace Node.
There shouldn't be any reason why next js cannot get their static builder to be equal to astro, and then at that point, why limit yourself to not having all the other rendering (and seo) features next offers.
Should I learn react native or native android, or flutter for mobile development. I have a few experience with native android using java, but currently working as react developer.
Last thing I was all about react and this year I'm a BE dev using Golang. I guess you'll never know what's next
Good Video, what I am planning to learn this Year is Chat GPT/AI Models/RPA and Automation/PL-900 with Microsoft Power Automate/and Maybe Programming like Python
square dancing should be on the list
What's your opinion on using Hasura ?
I think I'm going to start using fleet and try out the preview - I'm getting tierd of VSCODE.
The 2022 is all about the new framework as next react, not sure how do you think about those like astro, qwik etc.
Nice to see another Notion user tooo
Can u make a video on how you approach learning a new technology
Ohh wow, see you in your next video in 2024 Ben!
Hi Ben, please talk about how annoying it is getting custom Python models running on TensorflowJS React-Native and PlayTorch. It’s like the Wild West right now
This year I'm officially gonna learn to code.
I'm probably gonna learn Javascript this year. It seems like a useful language.
I kinda want to expand my dev ops skills:
- Ansible -- used it a bit just to experiment, but want to create proper useful scripts
- Terraform -- just to see what it's really about, evaluate it a little and maybe actually use it
- AWS/Cloudflare -- Just try to learn a bit more about deploying to cloud in general. So far I never truly needed all of it and would deploy to mostly regular VMs on these cloud providers, but not really into specialized services and edge/serverless stuff
Other stuff:
- Backend -- just get more into backend code in general. Do some stuff with Prisma and whatever database. Build a full app for something, backend and frontend
- Rust -- try to learn something a bit more lower level compared to JS/TS. Rust seems to be really interesting for many use cases
- React Native -- I've done it looong time ago, would like to actually create something useful with it
- Svelte -- I'm curious about Svelte for a long time now, just didn't really force myself to try to learn it. I do like React (most of the time), but I just want to see how others do it and form my own opinion
I know I probably won't go through most of these in 2023, but this is a rough overview of my interests.
I think cloud support for rust will really start to pick up this year and it could start to compete with Go in that context. rust also seems like the goto language for WASM.
Feels a bit odd to hear your reason for not wanting to try out Remix. I get not wanting to learn a new JavaScript Framework (there's really too many to even count), but ignoring Remix because it was acquired is a bit hypocritical given NextJS is being supported by Vercel?
Overall, I think Remix is doing amazing stuff when it comes to where NextJS has lacked, and is even inspiring teams at NextJS to do better when it comes to nested layouts, server components, fetching data, and much more.
It really feels wonderful to use Remix coming from NextJS, and I highly recommend you to give it a good try Ben. You will appreciate it a lot more, especially since you're full-stack but with a strong interest in backend infra.
On another note HAPPY NEW YEAR AWAD!!!!
Are you going to learn any programming language?. I´m still deciding between Go or Rust
I code embedded stuff in C and wanna learn Rust, but have no use for it. I am now for the first time adding some features I want in an open source mod tool for a game. My intro to coding was MCU so I suck at build environments.
Can you share more about your prisma clone?
I don't remember what I even had picked out for the year, but I ended up learning how to use redis through ioredis, but not really doing anything with it yet, maybe when I get into discord bots and have a small homeserver to selfhost that stuff. Didn't get around to svelte, been going back and fourth on whether to migrate that old jQuery/PHP project I still want to move off of my webhosting to umbrella+vite or svelte but it seems like I will need to learn vue.js after all this year and possibly get back to PHP after 3-ish years of not really touching it, not that I ever really did much since I've literally not touched any database stuff in a decade and mostly just work with 3rd party APIs for gamedata and such. Basically all been replaced with JS frameworks that now do SSG and have built-in cache busting.
My main personal project is and will stay next.js on vercel, I could get a VPS and build my own backend so I can take manually authored data out of the repo, but I think I'll just let it be fully static with ISR to manage hiding old game events and fetching the latest weekly missions. I did learn zod and started migrating to typescript, so I'm a lot more confident with the parsing of all of those yaml files, I'll just keep on slowly migrating everything to zod+ts over the year and maybe add new features here and there if I find the time.
What's the VSCode extension you're using to take those notes then?
Project management techniques. What notes app is that? Looked into BASB?
You should learn animations in Rive. I think they are much more performant than Framer motion and easy to build
All the same for me, it's amazing how we web devs want the same things
I'm hoping to pick up Redis and maybe Carbon this year :)