966: A Look Back at Web Dev in 2025 from Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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966: A Look Back at Web Dev in 2025

56 minutes Posted Dec 24, 2025 at 12:00 pm.

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Temporal API will ship in the browser

On-device AI becomes common

WebGPU unlocks fast local machine learning

Models will plateau

Is there an actual use case for video and photo gen AI?

Text to UI tools get really good

Framework choice will matter less

Web components in Standard Stack, Web Awesome takes off

AI browsers and Copilot Workspace-style tools will become normal

AI browsera will become inevitable, OpenAI will launch a browser

Relative color will feel fully “safe to use”

Vanilla CSS will make a comeback

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CSS mixins and functions spec solidifies

Container style queries will ship everywhere

Vertical centering jokes will stubbornly persist

VS Code will reach feature parity with Cursor

More VS Code forks will appear

React Compiler drops Babel

React server components will pop

Remix re-emerges as something new

React Native will have its time

TanStack Start and Tanstack will pop

SvelteKit gets more granular data loading

Local first apps will take off

Bun keeps doing “wild but loved” non-standard features, Bun will launch a platform-as-a-service

Vite stays king

Laravel will release a CMS

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Wes and Scott revisit their 2025 web development predictions, grading hits and misses across AI, browsers, frameworks, CSS, and tooling. From Temporal and AI coding agents to React, Vite, and vanilla CSS, they reflect on what actually changed, what stalled, and what it all means heading into 2026.

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866: 2025 Web Development Predictions

TypeGPU

CSS Custom Functions and Mixins Module Level 1

CSS if statements

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