The State of CSS 2019 survey results didn’t surprise me. Since WordPress moved to Gutenberg in late 2018 I’ve found relearning JavaScript and taking on ReactJS has become necessary. What I could do with my knowledge of CSS and PHP will not be enough to ‘get by’ in a few years.
Thoughts on the near future
- CSS Grid will replace CSS frameworks
- ReactJS will start to replace PHP in WordPress theme development
- Methodologies used in static site generators like Gatsby and Hugo are also worth a serious review.
While learning Gatsby it became quickly apparent quicker load times and lower bandwidth static site generators can provide. I expect WordPress and Drupal may work some of these concepts into core to speed up user experience at some point.
