Where is JavaScript Going?

Where's all this going?

How did we get here?
JavaScript
10 Days to create
Years to figure out
JavaScript Archaeology
The Sprinkle Era

The Ajax Era

The Crockford Era
Also known as the good parts

The jQuery Era

The Application Era

The Node Era


Prediction #1
NPM is the package manager

Prediction #2
More Frameworks, Not less

Prediction #3
No Winner

Prediction #4
More Modularity

Prediction #5
Common JS

Prediction #6
ES6/7/Next

TypeScript/Others

Prediction #7
People will use Promises

Prediction #8
Isomorphic
Progressive Enhancement will matter

Prediction #9
The target will not matter

Prediction #10
Still not enough tests will be written

Prediction #11
But more rigor

