Frontend used to mean “HTML, CSS, JavaScript.” Today it means reactive runtimes, server components, build-time optimizations, edge rendering, streaming, hydration patterns, design tokens, and increasingly—AI-assisted development. Most of what we once called “future tech” is now something we use without thinking about it.
This episode explores the silent transformation: how frameworks moved from DOM manipulation to compiler-driven architectures, how browsers adopted native capabilities that used to require libraries, and how frontend developers now operate closer to full-stack engineers than ever before.
We’ll also look at what the next wave likely brings—less JavaScript shipped to the client, more work pushed to the server, and a stronger emphasis on accessibility, performance, and predictable UI patterns.
