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Reflecting On the Biggest Trends on the Web in 2018

Lewis Menelaws on December 21, 2018

2018 was an awesome year for the web. I learned a lot and was able to translate that knowledge into the real world. Time sure flies! I looked back...
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Nicholas Fazzolari

Thank you for this synopsis. I have been hearing the term 'static site generator' more in the recent months. Now that I have a basic understanding of what they are, and how powerful they are I'm definitely going to learn how to use one.

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rhymes

This might help as well: jamstack.org/

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Lewis Menelaws

Love this site!

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Lewis Menelaws

If you are already familiar with web development than it shouldn't be that big of a step forward :)

Once you use them you can't go back!

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Max Ong Zong Bao

It's really cool I had recently migrated my Wix Blog to Gatsby. The change is really different in speed and developer friendly than using Wix for my blog.

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Lewis Menelaws

I was also surprised too. That being said, Vue and React were talked about more so I can understand the Google Searches.

I'm really excited to see where Web Assembly goes this year.