Laurie Voss

Web development: where are we, and where are we going?

What if the fundamental web development skills you have today will be obsolete tomorrow? This talk explains the predictable cycle of tech evolution.

Web development: where are we, and where are we going?
#1about 8 minutes

A model for how web development technology evolves

Technology evolves through a predictable cycle of experimentation, commoditization, consolidation, and mass adoption driven by economics and developer boredom.

#2about 6 minutes

Historical examples of abstraction in web development

The history of the web from Apache and PHP to the LAMP stack and WordPress demonstrates a consistent pattern of abstracting away lower-level concerns.

#3about 5 minutes

The rise of modern frameworks and cloud platforms

Frameworks like Rails and jQuery, along with platforms like AWS and GitHub, further abstracted development and infrastructure, accelerating the cycle of change.

#4about 5 minutes

Current technologies in the competition phase

Serverless computing, Jamstack platforms like Netlify, and the React framework are currently in the intense competition and consolidation phase of the technology cycle.

#5about 5 minutes

The future is abstracting away code with components

The next evolution in web development will involve abstracting away code itself through visual, component-based editors that allow building websites without writing HTML or React.

#6about 2 minutes

Navigating your career in a component-driven future

Developers facing this future can choose to specialize in building core components, adapt to building with visual tools, or create the next generation of frameworks.

Related jobs
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

Featured Partners

Related Videos

See all videos
Web development best practices in 202151:10

Web development best practices in 2021

Laurie Voss

The State Of The Web43:11

The State Of The Web

Jeremy Keith

Design Principles For The Web29:11

Design Principles For The Web

Jeremy Keith

Explore new web features before everyone else44:43

Explore new web features before everyone else

Nikita Dubko

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development25:30

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development

Lorenzo Pieri

Jamstack and Web Performance, a match made in heaven42:04

Jamstack and Web Performance, a match made in heaven

Tamas Piros

Frameworkless: How to use Web-Components in production?46:39

Frameworkless: How to use Web-Components in production?

Tobias Münch

Catching up on the basics you don't really need that much code14:44

Catching up on the basics you don't really need that much code

Chris Heilmann

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

Web Developer

Frontend Revolution

Intermediate
CSS
HTML
React
JavaScript