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JavaScript in 2022
Overview of JavaScript results from Web Almanac
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and that never happens, Wes. It happened last year, but beyond that, it never happens. And Chapter 2 of
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both of the teams were undefeated their 23.
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rid The CSS side of things. Now we're jumping into JavaScript, and there's some really interesting stuff like what frameworks are being used, what bundlers are being used. Are people rid Using Async and Defer
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The the University of Michigan has defeated, don't know if I could be doing any better, man. I'm doing great.
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And Michigan always loses, and we've had some really bad seasons. But this year, Wes,
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what are people using on the web. We did 2 whole shows on rid. Seems a little high, maybe. What do you think about that? on their script tags are people dynamically importing things, compressing, minifying, all that good stuff. Rid
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man, that is a like, as far as sports rivalries go in terms of things that, You know, you probably don't care about. It's it's number 1 at the top of our list. So Is that a game always on Thanksgiving weekend? It's kind of always around the same time. In. Yeah. So the it's always the last game of the college football season.
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I get the same sort of deal. So I didn't know if you had confirmed RSV or any of that stuff. But Yeah. I don't it might have been. Like there's a bunch of, like,
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Rid it wasn't really a survey. They basically scrape the entire web and compile all the information about
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going into this Game. And it's not even like it's not a playoff game or any it's just a normal season game. And it's to see kind of, you know, Teams were undefeated, ranked 2 3 in the in the league.
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Courtney has, like, totally given up on the game And just looking at their
Web Almanac JS is just chapter 2 of 23
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509 some some meds for that, which always sucks having to do.
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side of things.
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is that, you know, we spend 2 whole episodes on the CSS ravaged right now by whatever the sickness is. Yeah. We Definitely had a lot of friends and family, here.
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rid Is up into the right on every single chart here way more times than I can count.
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It feels like you could make an entire podcast the Ohio State Buckeyes,
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the JavaScript portion of this Entirely is chapter 2.
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Yeah. Web Almanac. You know what is actually kind of shocking is that when you look at the Web Almanac stuff just because the nature of what we do. Yeah.
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So Oh.
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Including how much JavaScript we load on every single page. So the 50th percentile of,
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Just start again. These results. Yeah. Just start again.
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Yeah. That's it's it's wild here. So, yeah, let's get into the JavaScript side of things here. We can talk a little bit about some of The different headings and general, things that you can glean from the web almanac here. But I'm I'm gonna go ahead and make a prediction that JavaScript
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people are loading on desktop.
Michigan beat Ohio State in football
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destroyed them, and navigation,
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Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's what the vaccine does. Right? I hope so. Yeah. Yeah. I actually, I didn't get my flu shot this rid And I was kicking myself for Oh. Because it just it sucks when you feel, like, sick, and you're just, like I was, like, not productive and Just not feeling good at all. So Yeah. Happy to be back. Yeah. I'm happy that you are back
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Pretty quickly. But for me, it just just rocked me. Like, it looked far worse than than COVID was for me. It was it's actually amazing. It's just like, oh, This is way, way worse.
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I'm doing so. Yeah. That's good. That's good. That's good. I'm just getting over, like, 2 weeks of brutal And Michigan and Ohio State are usually both big Big powerhouse teams, but for the past 1000000000 years since before I went to school, Ohio State has won, by now, and I I still watch every year. Obviously, I watch, like, all of the the Michigan football games. But Yeah. Yeah. It's a big deal in our household. And,
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it seems like the whole all of Ontario and I think the states is just getting that, like, cold RSV. It seems like everything's been going around. You know, all the kids are getting sick. Yeah. And I do you know what it was?
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my family got RSV, and it it might have been our kids kind of got over it pretty,
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We took great, great pleasure in watching that. So yeah.
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But, like, it's No kidding.
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I I don't I what has sometimes happens is I get, like, a flu, rid And then it turns into it turned into bronchitis, and I ended up having to go to the doctor and get My name is Wes Bos, And with me is mister Scott Talinsky. How are you doing today, Scott? Hey.
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And, yeah, Michigan
Median JS payload is 509kb on desktop
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k worth of JavaScript. And on mobile, it's it's slightly lower, but We've got a
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not enough to shake a stick at, which is This is going over
Wes recovering from bad flu
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back to 100
Transcript
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Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
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the results of the Web Almanac.
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rid Really good one for you today on JavaScript in 2022.
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