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Front-End FireCloudflare Drops the Hammer on AI CrawlersThe big tech company conferences continued this summer with Vercel hosting Vercel Ship 2025. As you’d expect there was lots of talk about AI and Vercel’s AI Cloud: tools, infrastructure, and platform enhancements to build AI agents and help AI agents use Vercel.On July 1, hosting platform Cloudflare declared Content Independence Day, and changed its settings to block AI crawlers by default unless they pay creators for their content. While we absolutely support this move, Cloudflare’s future vision of a marketplace where content creators and AI companies come together and compensation is based on how much c...2025-07-0740 min

Front-End FireBattle of the AI CLIs: Jack Tests Them AllThe field of AI coding agent CLIs is crowded and getting more so by the day, and our co-host Jack has tried them all so you don’t have to. The big four are: OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, Google’s Gemini Code, and Amazon Q, along with some lesser known CLIs like AmpCode, OpenCode, and (the already shut down) Anon Kode. After trying everything, Jack says Anthropic’s Sonnet models and Claude Code are still the best.Google’s quietly been working on new LLM-powered web APIs that rely on Google’s Gemini Nano model to power...2025-06-3045 min

Front-End FireOxlint 1.0: The Linter That Leaves ESLint in the DustIn this episode:Linting is getting a whole lot faster with OxlintYour browser is becoming part of your wellness routineAnd Copilot is getting more agentic featuresChapter Markers:1:05 - Oxlint7:05 - Opera Air11:24 - GitHub Copilot coding agent18:45 - More Remix v3 updates23:56 - What makes us happyLinks:Paige - void0's Oxlint 1.0Jack - Wellness stuff in Opera’s Air BrowserTJ - GitHub Copilot coding agent in public previewLightning News:Remix v3 goes further off the rails, names itself “spiritual successor to the web”What Makes Us Happy this W...2025-06-2335 min

Front-End FireRolldown-Vite: Evan You Just Made Vite 16x FasterWe first reported on Evan You’s company void0 back in October, 2024, and now Evan and co are making good on their promise to rework the entire JS toolchain from the ground up with the release of Rolldown-Vite. The new package is a drop-in replacement for the Vite bundler we all know and love, with benefits like production build time reductions of up to 16x and memory usage decreases of up to 100x. Replacement is easy and the perf gains are real. Try it today.Apple just held WWDC25 and announced big updates in Safari 26 beta. Favicons ge...2025-06-1644 min

Front-End FireThe Browser Company Kills ArcOpenAI has a new API in beta called the Realtime API, which enables speech conversations with LLMs. Real-time text and audio processing means users can have conversations with voice agents and voice-enabled apps, and OpenAI makes it simple to connect via WebRTC or WebSockets.Several months ago, The Browser Company, abruptly announced they were stopping work on Arc browser in favor of building a completely new, AI-first browser called Dia. Now, the company’s CEO has released a letter detailing why these decisions were made and what the future holds for The Browser Company. Details on Dia ar...2025-06-0949 min

Front-End FireZod v4: Prettier, Better, Faster, SmallerIt’s been 4 years since TypeScript schema validation library Zod released v3, but the new v4 release makes it worth the wait. Expect faster parsing times across the board, built in error pretty-printing, and even a tree-shakeable API called Zod Mini for constrained environments like edge runtimes.There’s a new npm-based CLI tool for managing and sharing AI rules across different editors and tools called vibe-rules. In addition to saving favorite prompts so they can be applied to any supported editor, vibe-rules can also automatically install prompts shared in a project’s NPM packages into an editor...2025-06-0253 min

Front-End FireTanStack DB & The Rise of the TannerverseTanStack, a collection of popular open-source software libraries, is back in the news cycle this week with the announcement of TanStack DB. TanStack DB extends TanStack Query with collections, live queries, and optimistic UI mutations to keep UIs reactive, consistent, and lightning fast.VS Code marks its 100th release of v1 with updates like: enabling Next Edit Suggestions (NES) be default, adding custom instructions and reusable prompts for a chat agent inside a project’s .github folder, and new tools at the AI agent’s disposal for better results.There’s a new component library availa...2025-05-1939 min

Front-End FireDesign, Code, Publish - All in Figma?Node is back in the news with some noteworthy updates as v24 drops. It gets an upgrade to 13.6 for its V8 JavaScript engine, runs with npm version 11, and has more efficient implementation of the local storage API and test runner updates.Google has released its newest version of its Gemini AI model: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O Edition), which claims to be the best model for front-end and UI development. To prove it, Google links to a site called the WebDev Arena (where Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview ranks #1), that lets users put in a prompt and then pits...2025-05-1249 min

Front-End FireReact Activity, Storybook 9 Beta, and AI as a Collaborator, Not a CrutchThe React team’s been on a roll lately with new experimental updates. Last episode we covered View Transitions, and today we discuss Activity. Activity is a component to hide and show parts of the UI while maintaining the component’s state and continuing to render at a lower priority when it’s not visible on screen.Storybook 9 beta is out now, and it seems to be transitioning from a frontend workshop for building UI components in isolation to a one-stop shop for all your frontend testing needs.And Microsoft recently released a paper from researc...2025-05-0555 min

Front-End FireAlien Signals, React Compiler Hits RC, and RedwoodSDK Plans RevealedSignals has been gaining in popularity the past few years for its fine-grained approach to reactivity in the browser, and a new high performance implementation called Alien Signals has landed in Vue.js. It offers significant performance improvements to complex applications with lots of data changes, and has been extended so it can be used in other JS-based libraries besides Vue. The React team announces that React Compiler has reached release candidate (RC) stage and is nearing stable release territory. React Compiler is a build-time tool that optimizes React apps through automatic memoization so devs don’t hav...2025-04-2837 min

Front-End FireAll AI All the Time: OpenAI’s Codex, the Web Dev AI Survey, and MoreThe AI hype train keeps chugging along with new updates from OpenAI. ChatGPT now offers GPT-4.1 - a new dev-first model trained for use cases related to coding, instruction following, and function calling with a context window of up to 1 million tokens. It also announces Codex CLI, a terminal version of ChatGPT that devs can use to run code, manipulate files, and iterate without ever leaving their preferred terminal.Next.js 15.3 drops with new features like using its Turbopack buildpack for production builds (still in alpha stage so use with caution), community support for Rspack as a...2025-04-2145 min

Front-End FireAgents Assemble: Google’s A2A Protocol, Copilot Reviews & RedwoodJS RebornGoogle announces a new Agent2Agent protocol meant to support AI agents communicating with each other. A2A aims to complement MCP and address the challenges of deploying large-scale, multi-agent systems from various providers across different platforms and cloud environments.GitHub Copilot’s new code review feature is now generally available. Just like you’d assign a coworker to review a PR, users can now assign a Copilot agent to review that same PR and spot bugs, identify potential performance problems, and suggest fixes.RedwoodJS has rebranded itself RedwoodSDK, and is focusing on a new frame...2025-04-1450 min

Front-End FiretRPC v11, Netlify vs. Next.js, and Firefox Gets PWAs (Kind Of)The tRPC team declares v11 officially production-ready. tRPC allows devs to build typesafe APIs with types that can be shared on the client and server, and now it has support for TanStack Query v5, the ability to send and receive non-JSON data content types, improved support for RSCs, and the ability to stream responses.After the Next.js security incident a few weeks back, Netlify writes an open letter around the challenges Next.js poses when not hosted on Vercel. It raises valid points like a lack of adapters, no production grade documentation for serverless deployments, no...2025-04-0736 min

Front-End FireNext.js’s Security Vulnerability, Remix Walks Away from RSCs, and Rsdoctor 1.0Next.js had a security vulnerability scare last week due to an internal header in its middleware that allowed for skipping middleware (like auth validation) before reaching routes. The Next.js team responded quickly and patched the security holes, but this serves as a reminder to stay vigilant, keep dependencies updated, and implement multiple layers of security.Michael Jackson, co-founder of Remix and React Router, is calling it quits for Remix support React Server Components. Lots of React-based frameworks built prior to RSCs have been struggling to support the new paradigm shift - and lots of devs...2025-03-3148 min

Front-End FireParcel Joins the RSC Party, CodeSandbox Gets AI-Powered, & Netlify x TanStack StartWeb app bundler Parcel adds support for React Server Components, including a repo of example apps for developers to reference. Although not specifically aimed at framework developers it seems like that’s the audience that would benefit most from this new feature in Parcel.CodeSandbox enters the AI game by teaming up with AI hosting platform Together AI, and launching CodeSandbox SDK. CodeSandbox SDK will allow developers to programmatically spin up AI sandboxes just like they can spin up microVMs today to run web app sandboxes in the cloud on CodeSandbox.io. Netlify inks a dea...2025-03-2439 min

Front-End FireTypeScript’s Compiler Glow-Up, OpenAI’s Agentic Push, and One-Click Site CloningThe TypeScript Compiler (TSC) is getting a major port to Go. Go’s support for concurrency and efficient memory management convinced the Microsoft team to port the code over and should result in as much as 10x faster builds in the future. Expect a feature-complete implementation towards the end of 2025, and the first major release of the native compiler to be TS 7.0 after that.OpenAI has released new APIs to make building agentic apps even simpler. A new Response API, built in tools like web search and file search, an Agents SDK to orchestrate ag...2025-03-1744 min

Front-End FireTanStack Form v1, ByteDance Debuts Lynx, & VS Code AI Levels UpThe Tanner-verse expands again, as TanStack Form announces v1 just two years after Tanner Linsley began work on it. Out of the gate, TanStack Form supports React, Vue, Angular, Solid, and Lit. ByteDance (yes, that ByteDance) has released a React Native competitor named Lynx. Lynx is a new JavaScript framework that allows you to write apps that run across iOS, Android, and the Web, and it’s already being used in production TikTok apps.VS Code’s February release had some major AI highlights this month. Preview access to the latest ChatGPT 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 3.7 model...2025-03-1042 min

Front-End FireOur AI Tool Preferences, Claude Code, & create-tsrouter-app Goes SolidSpecial announcement: Please take our listener survey so we can better tailor the podcast to your interests.The web development world can’t seem to get enough of surveys, so we’ve got the first State of AI 2025 to announce in this week’s episode. The folks behind this survey are the same ones who run State of JS, State of CSS, State of HTML, and more. Take 15 minutes to let them know what AI models you prefer, which code assistants you use, and what annoys you about the state of AI today.Along the same l...2025-03-0344 min

Front-End FireTraeAI Enters the IDE Wars, CRA’s Successor, and Bolt.new + ExpoSpecial announcement: Please take our listener survey so we can better tailor the podcast to your interests.The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, has just released TraeAI, the newest entrant to the AI-enhanced IDE wars. Trae is also a fork of the VS Code IDE and offers many of the same AI features of competitors Windsurf and Cursor: chats, autocomplete, etc.Recently we reported the React team agreed to deprecate starter React repo Create React App due to changes in React 19 breaking the project. Well, our very own Jack...2025-02-2448 min

Front-End FireState of React Results, TypeScript 5.8, and v0 UpgradesPlease take our listener survey so we can better tailor the podcast to your interests.It’s only mid-February and already the State of React survey results for 2024 are in! Unsurprisingly Next.js continues to dominate as the most used React-based framework and Tailwind CSS tops the charts when it comes to CSS tools and libraries.TypeScript 5.8 beta brings TypeScript syntax one step closer to being a first-class citizen in the Node runtime. Node 23.6 unflagged experimental support for running TS files directly, but certain TS constructs like enums, im...2025-02-1740 min

Front-End FireMCP AI Tools, OpenAI’s Deep Research, and React 19 Breaks CRAThe latest wrinkle for AI coding assistant tools like Cursor and Windsurf is known as the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is an open protocol that allows users to provide custom tools and services to agentic LLMs like calling a third party weather service.In further AI news, OpenAI has introduced a new deep research agent designed to conduct multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks. Just give it a prompt requiring research, like which model of washing machine to buy, and ChatGPT will find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive...2025-02-1050 min

Front-End FireDeepSeek R1, Devin.ai, and TS Validation StandardsA new challenger to rival OpenAI’s best ChatGPT model has arisen from China named DeepSeek R1. The reason it’s causing even more of a stir is because the creators claim DeepSeek R1 was trained for under $5M - a mere fraction of the cost of comparable models to date - and they’ve open sourced the code, the models, all of it.In the same vein, both TJ and Paige had the chance to try out AI coding assistant Devin.ai firsthand last week. Devin is best described as an energetic junior programmer, and while it off...2025-02-0352 min

Front-End FireNews: Bun 1.2, Tailwind CSS v4, and React Scan 0.1This week, the team behind JavaScript runtime Bun drops some major updates into Bun 1.2. Bun introduces a built-in S3 storage API, a built-in Postgres client (with MySQL coming soon), 90% compatibility with Node.js, and it’s faster than ever before.Tailwind CSS v4 is out as well, and it boasts a new higher performance engine for 5x faster full builds, support for cutting edge CSS features like cascade layers, custom properties, and container queries, a simplified initial install and config to get going, and a first-party Vite plugin.And React Scan, built by Aiden Bai wh...2025-01-2744 min

Front-End FireExpo Unveils Hosting, Interop 2024 Highlights, and Automattic Cuts WP ContributionsThe first topic of conversation this week is an unexpected new area the Expo team is tackling: Expo Application Service Hosting. EAS Hosting is a new service for quickly deploying web projects built using Expo and React Native apps. It makes it easy to compile and sign apps with custom native code, upload apps to the Play Store or App Store, and push live app updates directly to users.The Interop project, which aims to improve interoperability between major browser engines, released its accomplishments from 2024 this week. The browsers took on 17 areas of focus in 2024, and went...2025-01-2050 min

Front-End FireHoney Extension Scandal, Deno vs. Oracle, and Ghostty Terminal EmulatorThis episode begins with a cautionary tale to double check your browser extensions. Popular coupon browser extension Honey’s been caught replacing affiliate links with its own tracking codes right before checkout, as well as applying pre-selected discount codes from its business partners that aren’t always the best deals.A few weeks ago we reported Deno is petitioning Oracle to release the JavaScript trademark as Oracle’s never used it since acquiring it when it bought Sun Microsystems. This week Oracle has informed Deno they won’t voluntarily withdraw their trademark on JavaScript, and are lawyering up.2025-01-1343 min

Front-End FireState of JS 2024 Results, Free GitHub Copilot, and Awesome Shadcn UITo start us off, the State of JS 2024 survey results were recently released, and there’s lots of interesting stats to share. Vite continues to be the most loved framework and build tool amongst all JS devs, React continues to be the most used framework amongst JS devs at work, and SvelteKit and Astro are the two meta frameworks JS devs are most interested in trying out. Fun fact: 67% of respondents say they use ChatGPT to help them write code, but estimate only 12 - 20% of their code in a project is AI-assisted.In keeping with the AI tr...2025-01-0648 min

Front-End Fire2024 Holiday Spectacular!We wrap up the podcast with an end of year holiday spectacular episode! Instead of the usual news, the hosts share the biggest front end stories of 2024, the most fascinating developments, and the moments that made us happiest.Thank you, Front-End Fire listeners! We couldn’t have done this without you. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season, and we can’t wait to bring you more frontend goodness in 2025.Biggest Story of the Year for Frontend Devs:Paige - Vite and void(0)Jack - React 19 drama and delaysTJ - The rise in AI tooling, and...2024-12-2348 min

Front-End FireOpenAI Goes Pro, React 19 is Stable, and Figma's New Competitor OnlookIn our last news episode of the year, we share that React 19 is declared stable, just in time for the holidays. It’s been a long road from release candidate in April to stability now, but it was well worth the wait. React 19 is packing a lot of features, including: Actions, hooks, form actions, the new use API, and of course, React Server Components and Server Actions.OpenAI’s been busy as well, introducing ChatGPT Pro, its $200 a month subscription for unlimited access to OpenAI o1 (the “reasoning model), GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice mode. Additionally, the startu...2024-12-1650 min

Front-End FireTriple Threat: vlt, Vite 6, and Astro 5The new JavaScript package manager and serverless registry vlt debuted recently, promising to be a drop-in replacement for existing package managers like npm with additional offerings like a dependency query syntax selector and GUI experience for dependency graphs.Vite 6.0 released this week, and its biggest improvement is the new experimental Environment API. The Environment API is designed so that framework authors can create as many environments as they need within a single Vite server so they can map the way their apps work in production. Astro 5.0 also enters primetime with Astro Content Layers that loads c...2024-12-0941 min

Front-End FireTanStack Start Beta, Framer Motion Goes Vanilla, and the US vs. GoogleCo-host Jack Herrington is just back from the React Summit conference in New York and he shares some of the highlights of the conf, including the announcement that TanStack Start is now in beta status and Tanner Linsely (the creator of the TanStack products) will be working on it full time.Additionally, React-based animation library Framer Motion announces it has spun off into open source library Motion. Going forward, Motion will provide vanilla JS APIs so every JavaScript project can take advantage of the smooth, easy-to-use animations that were previously only available to React applications. T...2024-11-2538 min

Front-End FireExpo Unlocks RSCs, Amazon’s RTO Mandate, and CSS Masonry Layouts DebateWe kick off this week’s episode with news that React Native framework Expo now has a developer preview of universal React Server Components. For the first time ever, you can use React Server Components & Server Actions in native apps. In a controversial move, Amazon has mandated all employees must return to offices by Jan 2025. The hosts discuss the pros and cons of working from the office vs remote, and speculate this is just another way for Amazon to conduct layoffs without actually laying more employees off.CSS masonry, a long yearned for feature, gets clo...2024-11-1849 min

Front-End FireGitHub's AI-Driven Future: Copilot Models, Micro Apps, and More!The AI race continues with lots of new updates straight from the GitHub Universe conference!New features from GitHub include: the ability to choose different AI models for GitHub Copilot Chat to use (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc.), Copilot Workspaces reviewing PRs, suggesting code changes, and validating fixes.In addition to the GH Universe announcements, the October VS Code release has a bunch of new Copilot additions like: Copilot Edits to change multiple files at once, Copilot Chat in a secondary sidebar, and Copilot code reviews before committing to GitHub.Next.js’s caching, wh...2024-11-1147 min

Front-End FireNext.js 15 & Svelte 5: Major Upgrades Hit the Web Dev WorldJack is away this week speaking at the React Advanced conference in London, so be sure to check out his recorded talk (and all the others) about if React is really dying.For the news this week, we’ve got a bunch of interesting topics, the first of which is the latest release of Next.js: Next 15. It’s stable and production ready offering React 19 and React Compiler (experimental) support, Turbopack Dev, improvements to caching, and a change to async Request APIs that will allow for simplified rendering and caching in the future. Svelte 5 is also...2024-10-2847 min

Front-End FireOne Framework, Astro Server Islands, and WordPress Steals a WP Engine PluginIn the new frameworks based on React, we introduce you to One. It is a Vite-powered project claiming to support React web apps and React Native apps all in one.Next, Host Jack Herrington shares an update on how Astro’s Server Islands work after trying them out for himself. Similar to React’s Suspense components, Astro’s Server Islands allow any component that relies on server data to render with a “fallback” (like a loader or skeleton component) in the browser until the data is returned and the full HTML can render.And as we cannot...2024-10-2149 min

Front-End FireBye-bye .IO, void(0)’s Next Gen JS Toolchain, and StackBlitz’s AI platform bolt.new.io domains have been in vogue for over a decade, but now that the British government has decided to give up sovereignty over the small set of islands in the Indian Ocean that owned that country code on the Internet, it will soon cease to exist. Evan You, of Vue JS and Vite fame, has started a new company VoidZero Inc. to build the next generation toolchain for JavaScript. While trying to make Vite even better, Evan realized he needed a full-time team and funding to build the best toolchain around, and the engineers and investors agreed.2024-10-1452 min

Front-End FireWordPress Wars Continue, React Server Functions, and Web Component BacklashWP Engine is taking Automattic and Matt Mullenweg to court. The complaints are numerous and juicy: extortion, libel, slander, and include screenshots of text messages, tweets, and emails that look pretty damning against Automattic. The whole story has “Made for TV documentary” written all over it.In slightly less controversial news, React 19 has renamed its Server Actions to Server Functions. This name change brings React’s server functions more in line with other frameworks who support the same sort of functionality like SolidJS, Astro, TanStack Start, and others.Also in a follow up from the last e...2024-10-0745 min

Front-End FireNews: Deno 2.0, Web Components on the Server, and WordPress DramaThis episode kicks off with the new Deno 2 release candidate. V2 boasts improved dependency management, updates to the APIs and CLI, and improved CommonJS support because even though ESM is the future, so much good stuff in the JS ecosystem still runs on CJS. Web Components take a big step forward in terms of wider spread adoption with the adoption of the Declarative Shadow DOM by all major browsers back in August. The Shadow DOM (a Web Components standard) provides a way to scope CSS styles to a specific DOM subtree and isolate the subtree so the e...2024-09-3043 min

Front-End FireNews: TanStack Start, Safari 18 Updates, and Astro 5.0 HighlightsTanner Linsley, creator of TanStack Query and TanStack Router, continues expanding the Tanner-verse with a new TanStack Start framework. It’s a full-stack React framework powered by TanStack Router, Vinxi, and Vite, and boasts all the mainstays of a JavaScript framework today, including SSR, streaming, server function support, RPCs, and more. With the release of the new Apple operating system, iOS 18, comes new updates to the Safari browser and its WebKit rendering engine. A couple notable highlights for Safari 18 are “distraction control” where users can hide distracting items on web pages like sign-in banners, cookie preference popups, and new...2024-09-2339 min

Front-End FireNews: ChatGPT Moves to Remix, TypeScript 5.6, and Meta-framework HonoX DebutsBig news this week when it’s announced that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has moved ChatGPT from using Next.js to using Remix. While both metaframeworks rely on React under the hood, Remix seems a bit less opinionated about how teams might want to structure their projects to best suit their unique use cases and needs.TypeScript has also released v5.6, and amongst the many improvements is one many day-to-day TS users will benefit from: disallowed nullish and truthy checks. Although the name sounds impressive and confusing, what it boils down to is: if TS identifies an...2024-09-1642 min

Front-End FireNews: Updates for Vue, RedwoodJS, shadcn, and TC39’s Proposal StagesKicking off the discussion is the release of Vue 3.5. Although it’s not a major release, Vue 3.5 packs some great new features and optimizations like: reactivity system improvements (up to 56% less memory usage for apps than before), reactive prop destructuring stabilization (it’s simpler to declare props with default values), and SSR improvements like lazy hydration for async components.RedwoodJS is also out with a new version, and 8.0 packs a wallop. It makes RedwoodJS the third framework to support React Server Components behind Next.js and Waku.The shadcn CLI has gotten an update as well...2024-09-0947 min

Front-End FireNews: JavaScript Edition! Build Tools, Date Handling APIs, and SSR Benchmark WarsWe’ve got a good show for you today! It’s chock full of new build tools, better date handling in JavaScript, and SSR benchmarks to prove which framework is truly the fastest.The rust-ification of JavaScript build tools continues, as next generation build tool Rspack hits v1 and claims it’s ready for primetime. Rspack boasts (almost) complete compatibility with the webpack API while also being 10x faster.JS dates are about to be fixed thanks to the new Temporal API proposal, which is currently in stage 3 of the TC39 process of adding new featur...2024-09-0239 min

Front-End FireNews: Sentry’s Fair Source Licensing & What’s Next for React NativeOn this week’s episode, a new software licensing term has emerged in the development world: Fair Source Software (FSS). The error and exception tracking software company Sentry added some legal protections to their Codecov product last year (they are a business trying to earn money, after all), which technically meant it was no longer open source. In order to keep sharing its code with the community, Sentry created a new “Fair Source” licensing category that shares similar values to open source, but also allows companies to enforce non-compete clauses to protect its business interests.In othe...2024-08-2626 min

Front-End FireNews: AI-Edition: OpenAI’s Structured Outputs, EU AI Legislation, and Chrome CSS Usage StatsAI is the main topic of conversation for this week’s episode. Between continued advancements in the technology and governments trying to put safeguards in place to prevent a Terminator-style future, there’s plenty going on.OpenAI has introduced a new feature of its API called “structured outputs,” which essentially lets developers pass in a valid JSON schema that guarantees the model will always generate responses that adhere to it. No omission of required keys, no extra values you weren’t expecting, no need for strongly worded prompts to achieve consistent formatting.On the flip side, the...2024-08-1939 min

Front-End FireNews: Node Gets TS Support, Tauri v2, and New JS Acronym e18eThis week’s episode kicks off with an announcement that Node 22.6 has experimental TypeScript support! What you might not realize unless you read the fine print though, is that this isn’t the sort of TS support you might assume. Instead, the feature strips type annotations from .ts files, allowing them to run without transforming TS-specific syntax.Tauri, a competitor to Electron for building cross-platform desktop apps, just released a stable release candidate of Tauri 2. Tauri promises lower memory usage and CPU usage by taking advantage of a system’s native webview on the frontend and usi...2024-08-1239 min

Front-End FireNews: Google Backs Off Blocking Cookies, New CSS Features, and Vercel’s Feature Flags SDKGoogle is making headline news once again as it reverses course on a decision to block third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. After years of testing, planning, and delays, Google scrapped a plan to turn off third-party cookie tracking by default like Safari and Firefox already do.In other news, the annual CSS Working Group meeting wrapped up recently, and some of the exciting features the group will be focusing on this year include: the if() statement for conditional styling, cross document view transitions without the need for a JavaScript library, and (perhaps the most anticipated feature...2024-08-0542 min

Front-End FireNews: Astro Announces Server Islands and Partners with NetlifyPopular web framework Astro is making lots of headlines this week, between new experimental feature Server Islands, and achieving “official deployment partner” status with Netlify, it’s been a whirlwind.But in addition to Astro’s big news, Expo, arguably the most popular framework for building React Native apps, has been endorsed by the React Native team as the recommended way to build apps.Also, Vitest 2.0, the fastest growing test framework, has introduced a new experimental feature called “Browser Mode”, which allows users to run tests in the browser natively, providing access to browser globals like window...2024-07-2243 min

Front-End FireNews: AI Model Runner ONNX and JS Framework Maker Vinxi w/Returning Guest Jason LengstorfFriend of the podcast (and previous guest host), Jason Lengstorf, joins Jack and Paige today to talk about the latest happenings in the web dev world - and wax poetic at the end about favorite restaurants and fine dining.First up, is AI model runner ONNX, which Jack’s been digging into recently. ONNX offers many pre-trained models which can run locally or in the browser and integrates well with many different programming languages.After that is new Lodash library competitor es-toolkit. It’s smaller, faster, relies heavily on native browser APIs, and wants to supp...2024-07-1554 min

Front-End FireTopic: Favorite Tech Gear We Use (and Recommend)The hosts switch up the regular news format this week in favor of another favorite developer topic: tech gear. All the extras that make web development that little bit nicer.If you were stranded on a desert island (that only had power and Internet), what tech gear would you bring that you just can’t live without?Aside from MacBook Pros for all three hosts, there’s a good variety of office chairs, adjustable desks, external monitors, keyboards, mice, headphones, microphones, and even cameras. Many of the recognizable brand names make an appearance like: Apple, Logi...2024-07-0851 min

Front-End FireNews: Coding Reality TV, AI Companies Crawl Excluded Content, and Apple Violates More EU LawsIn a rare turn of events, it was a slightly quieter week in terms of actual web development news, so the hosts round up some technology-adjacent news and drama to share.Jack kicks off the show recounting his experience of being one of four developers in a reality show-type scenario that his friend Jason Lengstorf (host of the YouTube show “Learn with Jason”) put together. Next up is more drama around how AI companies are training their LLMs. Up and coming AI company Perplexity’s getting some heat for ignoring the robots.txt files on website...2024-07-0147 min

Front-End FireNews: State of JS 2023 Survey Results, React Drama Updates, and Adobe Sued by FTCAlthough we’re already halfway through 2024, this week the State of JavaScript survey for 2023 dropped, and the hosts weighed in and discussed the results they found most interesting.This year the survey provided a lot more write in options instead of predefined lists, which made extrapolating clear answers in many cases more difficult than it otherwise would have been, but there were still some clear winners in terms of usage and popularity among respondents. React and Next.js continued to dominate in the framework wars, Vite was beloved by most everyone, and the new category of AI to...2024-06-2447 min

Front-End FireNews: GH Copilot Workspace Review, the Latest in Web UI, and React Suspense DramaToday’s episode covers a slew of hot topics making headlines in the web development and general technology world.TJ kicks off the show with his firsthand experience of GitHub Copilot Workspace (available to users by invite only). He tested Copilot Workspace with a relatively simple issue in one of his repos, and while the plan Copilot came up with seemed sound, the implementation didn’t end up working. It took Copilot several minutes each time he asked it to try and code a working solution again too, which wasn’t the best experience. While it’s still ex...2024-06-1756 min

Front-End FireNews: New SSG Framework VitePress, Component Libraries Based on shadcn/ui, and Angular 18 DropsThis is a rapid fire episode of news topics today because (as always) there’s plenty going on in the front-end development world.Evan You, the creator of the popular Vue.js framework and Vite build tool, is back with a new static site generator named VitePress. VitePress allows users to build fast, content-centric websites with Markdown, a fully customizable theme, and Vue-enhancements for greater interactivity, and it will generate static HTML pages that can be deployed anywhere.There’s also two new component library frameworks taking a page from the shadcn/ui open source comp...2024-06-0335 min

Front-End FireNext.js 15, Google Search Rolls Out AI to All, and SolidStart 1.0 DebutsConference season is in full swing this week Vercel showed off the new goods they’ve got for developers to get excited about.During Vercel Ship, the Next.js 15 RC (release candidate) was officially announced. Next.js 15 includes benefits like: support for React 19 and the React Compiler (Experimental), plus hydration error improvements. It also offers experimental support for partial pre-rendering, a new API to execute code after a response has finished streaming, and new config options for the App and Pages Router. But the biggest thing to note in this release is the change to caching: in Ne...2024-05-2743 min

Front-End FireReact Conf Highlights, Vercel Raises Another $250m, and Astro Adds ActionsWe’ve got an exciting episode with our co-host Jack Herrington fresh from his trip to React Conf where the React core team and close collaborators unveiled all the cool things they’ve been working on, including the much anticipated React Compiler and some exciting new features for React Native Expo.React Compiler is a new Babel-enabled plugin that will allow React apps to handle the memoization and re-rendering of components in an application so that developers won’t have to use the useMemo() and useCallback() hooks themselves. It will essentially save devs from having to think about...2024-05-2047 min

Front-End FireReact 19, TypeScript 5.5, and GitHub Copilot Workspace Wants to Code For YouThis week we’re all about beta releases and technical previews of AI that will make us even more productive coders.Since the release of React 18, just over 2 years ago, the React team’s been hard at work, and at the end of April, React 19 beta dropped on npm. This new version brings Server Components and Server Actions out from behind the canary channel, stating they are now stable and will not break between major versions going forward. In addition to this, v19 introduces Actions: hooks for supporting asynchronous functions in transitions like form submission, designed to hand...2024-05-0636 min

Front-End FireNode 22, Hydrogen gets Remix(ed), and Vercel Backs Away from the EdgeThere’s rarely a dull moment in the web development world and this week is no exception to that rule. The episode kicks off with an update on Shopify’s meta framework Hydrogen, which is now built on top of the open source framework, Remix, which Shopify acquired back in October of 2022. Hydrogen now has full Vite support and integration with the Vite plugins ecosystem, an overhaul of its SEO (now powered by Remix), full page caching, and a decrease in the CLI bundle size of 60%. Listeners may wonder why Shopify continues to develop both Hydrogen and Remix...2024-04-2936 min

Front-End FireNews: Figma’s Code Connect, Next.js 14.2, and New APIs in Chrome 124The episode starts off with news about Figma’s new Code Connect feature. Code Connect is the bridge between a design system’s component code and Figma, so when viewing components in Figma’s Dev Mode, they’ll have the same real world code that the design system relies on, and Code Connect can also map properties from code to Figma, enabling dynamic and correct snippets. The catch? This sweet new feature is only available to users who are on Figma’s Organization and Enterprise plans.We continue the news with the release of Next.js 14.2, which has moved...2024-04-2237 min

Front-End FireNews: Smaller images via Jpegli, Val Town Raises $5.5M, and Declarative Routing in Next.jsThe group dives into the week’s news right away, starting off with a new open source project from Google called Jpegli. Jpepgli is a new JPEG coding library, which claims to compress images up to 35% smaller while also being able to deliver JPEGs in even higher quality than what is currently available today. The GitHub repo the article links to still looks to be in the early stages of development, but this could be a new solution for JPEGs, which traditionally can take quite a bit to load in the browser depending on their size and resolution....2024-04-1530 min

Front-End FireNews: Signals in JS, RSCs in Storybook 8, and Bun Hits Windows in v1.1Signals have been around in the JavaScript world as early as 2010 when Knockout.js first introduced them, but the past few years they’ve been picking up steam among JS frameworks as a way to effectively manage application state so that developers can focus on the business logic parts of their apps. Now there’s a proposal to make Signals part of the native JavaScript ecosystem, and it’s being backed by some well-known frameworks like Angular, Svelte, Vue, and more. Storybook 8 has introduced experimental support for React Server Components. It is noted that server side actions are sti...2024-04-0842 min

Front-End FireWangular, RedwoodJS on the RSC Bandwagon, Modern CSSIt turns out we had a lot of news to cover in this week’s episode. We kicked it off discussing how RedwoodJS is the latest framework to support React Server Components, and has some pretty nice illustrated docs to help devs get started. Then, there was a rapid fire of interesting topics including a great new article about modern CSS from Mr. CSS Tricks himself, Chris Coyier, a new documentary film on the origin story of Node.js from the team that created the React and Ruby on Rails documentaries as well, and a footnote about a new an...2024-04-0142 min

Front-End FireNews: Google’s New Web Vitals, AnalogJS Reaches 1.0, and is CSS-from-JS a Thing?CSS-in-JS has been around for years now, but have you tried JS-from-CSS? This week we talk about the new alternative trend sweeping through the web development community: writing only CSS to create a fully styled and typed React component. Two early frontrunners in this race are MistCSS and Stylin, and we’ll keep an eye out for if this new twist on writing JSX components catches on. AnalogJS, the meta-framework for Angular we covered several months ago, announces release 1.0 with all the bells and whistles we’ve come to expect from other meta frameworks: Vite integration, filesystem routing, SSR/SSG...2024-03-2537 min

Front-End FireNews: Astro Adds Databases, Pigment CSS, and Speedometer 3.0 Browser TestingIn this episode, we explore the latest in web development with Astro unveiling Astro DB, a fully managed, blazing fast SQL-based database that is “ridiculously easy to use.” Next, you may not know the name, but Speedometer just released version 3.0, which further solidifies its status as the browser benchmark for web app responsiveness. Next up is Pigment CSS, a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS solution from the makers of the Material UI component library that works with Next.js’ app router and React Server Components. And to cap it all off, we’ve got new details about Rolldown, the Rust-based version of Rollup...2024-03-1835 min

Front-End FireNews: Vercel’s New AI SDK 3.0, Tailwind CSS Goes Open Source, and Safari 17.4Today we discuss Vercel’s latest offering: AI SDK 3.0, which streams React components from LLMs to deliver richer user experiences than text-only chatbots. Then we dive into the world of modern styling as Tailwind CSS drops its latest gem - version 4.0, now open source for community exploration. And then finally we talk about the latest improvements in Safari 17.4. Plus, stay tuned for Elon Musk’s legal saga with OpenAI and the Indian government’s new stance on AI model updates.News:Paige - Tailwind CSS v4 goes open sourceJack - Vercel’s AI SDK 3.0 with Generative UI suppo...2024-03-1134 min

Front-End FireNews: npm Has Competition, Parcel Adds Macros, and BrowserStack Gets SuedWe discuss JSR, the new package registry from Deno, and whether it can compete with npm. Next, we talk about Parcel’s new support for macros, which is a handy way to embed build-time logic into your code. After that we some get into some BrowserStack legal drama, and wrap up with some BREAKING NEWS about Apple, PWAs, and the EU. Drama!News:Paige - JSR - Deno’s New JavaScript Package RegistryJack - Parcel v2.12 supports macrosTJ - Deque Systems Sues BrowserStack for Intellectual Property TheftJack - React 19’s useOptimistic hookTJ - So what exactly did Ap...2024-03-0434 min

Front-End FireNews: Hono v4 Enters the Meta Framework Arena, Storybook 8 Supports RSCs, and Apple Shuts Off PWAs in the EUNews:Paige - Hono v4 takes aim at full-stack frameworksJack - Storybook 8TJ - An update on Apple breaking PWAs in the EUBonus News:Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training dataNode.js unveils its new mascot Rocket TurtleWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige...2024-02-2634 min

Front-End FireNews: Powering Up Monorepos with Nx’s Project Crystal, Astro’s Simple Stack Streaming, and Apple’s EU App-ocalypseNews:Paige - Nx Project CrystalJack - Simple Stack StreamingTJ - Apple breaking PWAs in the EUBonus News:Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AIWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Mr. & Mrs. Smith TV seriesJack - The Murderbot Diaries...2024-02-1936 min

Front-End FireNews: Amazon’s JS Runtime LLRT, Vite 5.1, and Interop 2024 Browser InitiativesNews:Paige - Vite 5.1Jack - LLRT and Million LintTJ - Interop 2024 & wpt.fyiBonus News:React Native visionOS for the Apple Vision ProjQuery 4 betaWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - A Court of Mist and Fury book (sequel to...2024-02-1231 min

Front-End FireNews: Apple’s Browser Drama in the EU, Voice Powered Copilot Chat, and Zed Goes Open SourceNews:Paige - Code editor Zed goes open sourceJack - “Hey Code” in VS CodeTJ - Apple changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the EUMozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for FirefoxBonus News:Open PropsWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - 2024-02-0541 min

Front-End FireNews: Exploring Next-Gen Web Components, New Code Hike Highlighter, and the Arrival of Apple VisionNews:Paige - New Web Components features from the W3CJack - Code HikeTJ - Apple Vision Pro and Apple Vision Pro dramaBonus News:Bun Shell - experimental shell scripting in JSWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - ColorIt Mandalas coloring bookJack - 2024-01-2939 min

Front-End FireRescript 11.0 Takes on TypeScript, RSCs Explained with Donuts, and OpenAI’s GPT Store DebutNews:Paige - ReScript 11.0 - a TS competitorJack - Donut componentsMatteo Frana: React, where are you going?Cassidy Williams: Kind of annoyed at ReactTJ - OpenAI launches a GPT Store & Netlify’s exampleWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Fargo TV series and JustThe Recipe.co...2024-01-2236 min

Front-End FireExploring the Superglue Framework, Svelte 5’s Arrival, and the OpenAI’s NY Times Legal BattleNews:Paige - Superglue - Rails with React & Redux frameworkJack - Svelte 5 previewTJ - NY Times is Suing OpenAIBonus news:KnipWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - A Court of Thorns and Roses bookJack - What If…? season 2TJ...2024-01-1533 min

Front-End FireTanstack Router 1.0, Catalyst UI from the Makers of Tailwind, and date-fns Hits v3News:Paige - TanStack Router 1.0Jack - Catalyst UI KitTJ - date-fns v3What Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Money Heist: Berlin Jack - Personalized art and wine experienceTJ - Fourth Wing bookJoin Us: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder c...2024-01-0824 min

Front-End FireEnd of Year Wrap Up and Predictions for Web Dev in 2024News:The Adobe Figma merger fell apartPredictions:Paige - More native JS APIsJack - A return to simpler JS frameworksTJ - AI in the whole code baseWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - The Morning Show TV seriesJack - Twinkly Christmas Lights TJ - Coffee advent calendar from B...2023-12-2523 min

Front-End FireNew React Framework Waku Unveiled, Agile 2 in Action, and Big Updates in Safari 17.2News:Paige - Waku - new minimal React framework designed for RSCsJack - Agile 2TJ - Safari 17.2Bonus News:Peach Fuzz is the 2024 color of the yearEnvy HTTP tracingCody AI code assistantWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Twinkly Christmas lights...2023-12-1838 min

Front-End FireXState’s Back with v5, Facebook Open Sources StyleX, and Cron Jobs Come to DenoNews:Paige - XState v5 debuts the “actor model”Jack - StyleXTJ - Deno CronBonus News:VS Code floating editor windows What Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - General good healthJack - CO2 detectorTJ - Twinkly Christmas LightsJoin...2023-12-1141 min

Front-End FireVercel’s AI building UIs, Nested CSS without Sass, and the Annual State of JS Survey is LiveNews:Paige - CSS nesting is supported by all major browsersJack - Streaming components from server actions using the Vercel AI SDK libraryTJ - State of JavaScript 2023 surveyBonus News:The OpenAI debacle (aka Sam Altman’s ousting on Friday and rehiring by Microsoft on Sunday then reinstating at OpenAI by Tuesday)Update on the Prettier & Rust sagaWhat Makes Us Ha...2023-12-0429 min

Front-End FireCopilot comes to github.com, Blazing-er Faster Next.js, and a Bounty for Code Formatter PrettierNews:Paige - GitHub’s bringing Copilot Chat to github.comJack - Next.js Partial Prerendering featureTJ - The $20k bounty for Prettier to be written in Rust What Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Blue Eye Samurai on NetflixJack - HikingTJ - iPhone 15 usb c power port 2023-11-2040 min

Front-End FireThe Angular Renaissance with Jessica JaniukNews:Paige - Shots.so a full featured device mockup toolJack - Astro 3.5 releaseTJ - The :has selector has landed in Firefox. CSS nesting is now widely supported.Jessica - Angular 17 debutSpecial Guest:Jessica Janiuk Senior Software Engineer at Google 2023-11-1356 min

Front-End FireWeb Dev Breakdown: Remix joins the Vite Train, Docusaurus 3.0, and an Update on Vercel's AI Code Generator v0News:Paige - Remix announces support for ViteJack - Docusaurus 3.0 TJ - v0 updateBonus news:Angular event - https://twitter.com/angular/status/1719025621425369267 Stack Overflow is adopting Svelte to enhance their UI - https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/31/why-stack-overflow-is-embracing-svelte/ What Makes Us Happy this Week:P...2023-11-0640 min

Front-End FireThe Latest in Web Frameworks: Next.js v14, Angular’s new Analog.js, Plus Updates on the React Compiler React ForgetNews:Paige - Next.js 14 just droppedJack - React ForgetTJ - Analog.js and this talkBonus - https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/hr-in-select/ What Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Archer TV seriesJack - Kinesis Freestyle2 keyboardTJ - G...2023-10-3034 min

Front-End FireCodeSandbox's Dev Container Magic & TanStack Query V5 UnveiledNews:Paige - TanStack Query hits v5TJ - Dev Container Support in CodeSandboxWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - ILeftMyStuff.comTJ - YouTube TV multiviewJoin Us:Blue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via email 2023-10-2326 min

Front-End FireAccelerate Your Web Dev with React Aria Components, Optimized Barrel File Imports, and ActivityPub Support in WordpressNews:Paige - The React Aria team released a new library of unstyled componentsJack - Barrel FilesTJ - WordPress now offers official support for ActivityPubBonus news: Node.js 20 has killed dotenvWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Royal Therapy Memory Foam PillowJack - Godly Design Website 2023-10-1631 min

Front-End FireThe Future of SolidJS with Ryan CarniatoNews:Paige - Web components library Lit 3.0 is about to be releasedTJ - Photoshop is now on the webRyan - The future for SolidJSSpecial Guest:Ryan Carniato the creator of SolidJS.Ryan’s X profile @RyanCarniatoRyan’s YouTube channelSolidJS siteSolidJS on DiscordWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:2023-10-0956 min

Front-End FireChatGPT for JS Devs, HTML Elements Beyond Divs, and Parallel CI Tasks Made Easy with NXNews:Paige - ChatGPT.js - we knew it was only a matter of time…Jack - Latest Nx updatesTJ - What the State of HTML Survey taught me about HTMLWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Dune, the novelJack - EggrollsTJ - Anker USB Outlet...2023-10-0229 min

Front-End FireTypeScript’s origin story, Svelte 5 references Knockout.js, and Meta’s CSS-in-JS library StylexNews:Paige - The first look at Svelte 5Jack - Stylex CSS-in-JS libraryTJ - TypeScript Origins: The DocumentaryWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham TV showJack - Foundation on Apple TVTJ - Scorpio Races and 2023-09-2531 min

Front-End FireIt’s a Bun-anza! A Bun-apalooza! Bun-tastic, with a dash of AINews:Paige - Vercel Labs presents generative UI tool v0Jack - Bun MacrosTJ - Bun 1.0 is hereWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - What We Do in the Shadows TV showJack - Making stuff 🙂TJ - Tears of the KingdomJoin Us:2023-09-1832 min

Front-End FireTypeScript Drama, Open Props, and the End of RomeNews:Paige - Ruby on Rails creator DHH removing TypeScript from Turbo 8, which supports HotwireJack - Open PropsTJ - The end of Rome and start of BiomeBonus - https://studio.astro.build What Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Bardcore musicJack - New Godzilla movieTJ...2023-09-1132 min

Front-End FireAstro partners with Vercel, Lightning CSS gets adopted by Tailwind, and ChatGPT goes Enterprise EditionNews:Paige - Lightning CSS gains wid(er)spread adoptionJack - Vercel becomes official hosting partner for Astro TJ - ChatGPT Enterprise is out now What Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Star Trek: Strange New WorldsJack - Chip WarTJ - M2 Macbook Pro...2023-09-0427 min

Front-End FireAnnouncing Astro 3.0 with Fred K. SchottNews:Paige - Lots of Supabase enhancements - Postgres Language Server, new utilities for the CLI, and branching & preview environments for PRs via GitHubJack - CoduxFred - Astro 3.0Special Guest:Fred K. Schott the co-creator of Astro.Fred’s X profile @fksAstro siteAstro blogWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Google Translate and DuolingoJack - Woodworking with Jason LengstorfFred - Factorio: Space Age gameJoin Us:Bl...2023-08-3042 min

Front-End FireFaster React apps with Million.js, more new CSS features, and Bun 1.0News:Paige - Chrome introduces 4 new CSS features for entry/exit animationsJack - Million.js auto modeTJ - Bun 1.0 launch eventWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - CodePen siteJack - The Weird Al Yankovic MovieJack #2 - Miracle Workers Season 4TJ - GitHub Copilot ChatJoin Us:Blue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fire 2023-08-2127 min

Front-End FireA new React component library, Google’s cloud-based IDE, and an RSC debuggerNews:Paige - Radix UI themes - an OS component library for ReactJack - RSC ParserTJ - Google announces Project IDXWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Meater BBQ Oven MittsJack - XP-Pen + ScreenbrushTJ - Michigan’s Upper PeninsulaJoin Us:Blue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fire 2023-08-1426 min

Front-End FireThe Death of Jamstack, the Rise of HTMX, and Another AI AssistantNews:Paige - StackOverflow launched Overflow AIJack - HTMXTJ - Is Jamstack Officially Finished? Bonus news: Introducing react-tweetWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Roller coastersJack - The Barbie MovieTJ - Algolia searchJoin Us:Blue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fire 2023-08-0726 min

Front-End FireDan Abramov leaves Meta, GitHub Copilot Chat, and native browser view transitionsNews:Paige: Dan Abramov is leaving Meta: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1682029195843739649 Jack: GitHub Copilot Chat is now available for enterprise dev teams: https://github.blog/2023-07-20-github-copilot-chat-beta-now-available-for-every-organization/ TJ: Zero-JavaScript page transitions coming to Astro https://twitter.com/astrodotbuild/status/1683514985115426817, https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/view-transitions/ What Makes Me Happy this Week:Paige - The Witcher Season 3 on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80189685 Jack - Star Trek Strange New Worlds on Paramount+ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12327578/ TJ - Pokemon Sleep https://www.pokemon.com/us/app/pokemo...2023-07-3134 min

PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocketThe Launch Pad with Tru Narla, Trash Dev, and Paige Niedringhaus2023 has just begun but we have a lot to get through already with our second episode of The Launch Pad. Tru Narla, Trash Dev, and Paige Niedringhaus join us to talk about the state of frontend going into 2023, the release of the long-anticipated SvelteKit 1.0, and how JavaScript is in its golden age. Links https://www.paigeniedringhaus.com https://twitter.com/pniedri https://twitter.com/trunarla https://www.mewtru.com https://www.youtube.com/c/mewtru https://www.tiktok.com/@mewtru https://www.twitch.tv/mewtru https://twitter.com...2023-01-1341 min

PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocketModern React with Paige Niedringhaus (Repeat)Originally published on February 8, 2022 We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on July 6th. Paige Niedringhaus, Staff Software Engineer at Blues Wireless and author of the Modernizing React Apps course, joins us to talk about keeping your React application up to date, challenges React developers are experiencing, VS Code extensions that you should try, career changes, and more. Links https://twitter.com/pniedri https://blues.io https://reactroundup.com https://prettier.io https://eslint.org https://marketplace.visualstudio.com...2022-07-0150 min

PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocketModern React with Paige NiedringhausPaige Niedringhaus, Staff Software Engineer at Blues Wireless and author of the Modernizing React Apps course, joins us to talk about keeping your React application up to date, challenges React developers are experiencing, VS Code extensions that you should try, career changes, and more. Links https://twitter.com/pniedri https://blues.io https://reactroundup.com https://prettier.io https://eslint.org https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pnp.polacode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=aaron-bond.better-comments https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client https://www...2022-02-0850 min

React Round UpNailing Your Interview with Paige Niedringhaus - REACT 167So, you’ve followed up with a recruiter and have an interview scheduled tomorrow. Not sure what to do next besides print your resume? Don’t fret! In this episode, the guys sit down with Paige Niedringhaus to discuss the fundamentals of nailing your interview. They lay out the interview red flags that should scare you to your core, how to escape the “application blackhole”, and why the “STAR Method” is incredible for leaving an awesome impression. “If you don’t feel like you qualify, apply anyway. If it sounds interesting, just apply.” Paige Niedringhaus In This Episode: For real, though: Boot...2022-01-0550 min

React Round UpModernizing Enterprise React Apps with Paige Niedringhaus - RRU 160This week, our very own host Paige Niedringhaus leads the discussion about modernizing enterprise React applications - inspired by a course she's just released on that very subject. Over the course of the episode everyone shares tips, tricks, strategies and war stories when it comes to the struggle most developers will face at some point in their careers of keeping large React applications up to date. There's a lot more to keep in mind than just upgrading the code too: tooling setups, code linting, component refactoring, testing - the list goes on! But with some advice (and the help of...2021-10-2058 min

React Round UpRRU 106: React Socks for Easy Responsive Design with Paige NiedringhausJavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now! Paige Niedringhaus talks about the ever increasing need for developers and designers to be thinking about responsive web design as they build apps in today's world; a quick recap of a conference talk she gave at Connect.Tech, called 'Responsive Design featuring ReactJS'. Then, she talks about two possible solutions for making responsive web apps: CSS media queries and a new, React-specific NPM package called React Socks. Both options have their benefits and drawbacks (and can be used together too!), but getting started with either is relatively simple. Considering how...2020-04-1438 min

JavaScript JabberJSJ 398: Node 12 with Paige NiedringhausGuest Paige Niedringhaus has been a developer full time for 3 years, and today she is here to talk about Node 12. One of the things she is most excited about is the ES6 support that is now available, so things that used to require React, Angular, or Vue can now be done in Node. The require function will not have to be used in Node 12. AJ is worried about some of these changes and expresses his concerns. Paige assures him that in the beginning you won’t have to switch things to imports. You may have to change file extensions/types so...2019-10-081h 04