Gnarly Technology Predictions for 2022

• TypeScript

  1,305 97,944 9.9 TypeScript

  TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  

Typescript

• action-doctl

  142 452 6.4 JavaScript

  GitHub Actions for DigitalOcean - doctl

  

My outlook on NextJS is more opaque than the other stacks we use. We’ve used it on a few projects and overall had a favorable opinion of it but have yet to find its sweet spot. For purely front-end we default to create-react-app but have had some success with Next. On full-stack/back-end it lacks all the out-of-the box utilities and conventions Rails provides resulting in a lot of external dependencies and bike-shedding on how to structure complex back-end apps. I also think Vercel (maintainer of NextJS) is missing the bus by not having a database option tightly integrated within their stack, which makes it a non-starter for us on most projects. We've found DigitalOcean or Heroku to deliver the best out-of-the-box experience when deploying full-stack NextJS apps that require server-side data persistence.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• webpack

  330 64,160 9.8 JavaScript

  A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

  

Webpack

• Ruby on Rails

  467 54,894 10.0 Ruby

  Ruby on Rails

  

Rails

• react-native

  524 115,758 10.0 C++

  A framework for building native applications using React

  

React Native

• React

  1,693 221,803 9.9 JavaScript

  The library for web and native user interfaces.

  

React

• create-react-app

  575 101,853 1.5 JavaScript

  Set up a modern web app by running one command.

  

My outlook on NextJS is more opaque than the other stacks we use. We’ve used it on a few projects and overall had a favorable opinion of it but have yet to find its sweet spot. For purely front-end we default to create-react-app but have had some success with Next. On full-stack/back-end it lacks all the out-of-the box utilities and conventions Rails provides resulting in a lot of external dependencies and bike-shedding on how to structure complex back-end apps. I also think Vercel (maintainer of NextJS) is missing the bus by not having a database option tightly integrated within their stack, which makes it a non-starter for us on most projects. We've found DigitalOcean or Heroku to deliver the best out-of-the-box experience when deploying full-stack NextJS apps that require server-side data persistence.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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