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