# Twelve things for 2018

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In this episode Jake and Surma give each other two minutes to describe something they're looking
forward to in 2018. They cover:

- [Background fetch](https://github.com/WICG/background-fetch).
- [Animation worklets](https://github.com/WICG/animation-worklet).
- [Web locks](https://github.com/inexorabletash/web-locks/).
- [Web architecture](https://dassur.ma/things/120fps/).
- [Weightless CSS](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#is).
- [Template
  instantiation](https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals/Template-Instantiation.md).
- [Flatmap \& flatten](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-flatMap).
- [Async iterators \& generators](https://jakearchibald.com/2017/async-iterators-and-generators/).
- [Fetch observers](https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/607).
- [Dynamic imports](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/11/dynamic-import).
- [Transform streams](https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/#ts).
- [The benefits of web workers](https://dassur.ma/things/120fps/).

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