Jack 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 a…

In 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 co…

.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 …

WP 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 r…

This 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…

Tanner 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 …

Big 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 rele…

Kicking 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 …

We’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 compa…

On 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. …

AI 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 …

This 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…

Google 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 r…

Web development survey results season is upon us, so this week’s episode covers two of the newly released survey results: the State of React survey 2023 and Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2024. Just over 13,000 developers filled out the State of React survey, and the results were quite interesting. React devs are fans of component libraries like M…

Popular 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 Nati…

Friend 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 lo…

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 th…

In 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 w…

Although 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 oth…

Today’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…

Vanilla JS author Chris Ferdinandi joins the podcast this week to talk about how having ADHD has affected his career in web development. Chris shares his own diagnosis of ADHD as a child, then proceeds to discuss how it can be both a positive and a negative depending on the situation and how different individuals can have ADHD to varying degrees. H…

This 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 c…

Conference 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 of…

We’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…

On this episode of Front-End Fire we welcomed special guest Jason Lengstorf to chat about the news with us. We opened with a follow-up discussion of the let versus const debate from last week. Jack made a video (see below for link), and we had a bit of fun talking about the controversy. After that we introduced Effect, a library that dubs itself th…

This 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 c…

There’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 Vi…

The 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 …

The 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 sti…

Signals 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…

It 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 Tr…

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…

In 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 …

Today 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 improvement…

We 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 …

News: Paige - Hono v4 takes aim at full-stack frameworks Jack - Storybook 8 TJ - An update on Apple breaking PWAs in the EU Bonus News: Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data Node.js unveils its new mascot Rocket Turtle What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Learning watercolor painting and The Fourth Wing novel Jack - Drive to Survive …

Special Guest(s): Kelvin Omereshone, lead maintainer of Sails.js and creator of The Boring JavaScript Stack Main Topic: The Boring JavaScript Stack Relevant Links: The Boring Stack repo The Boring Stack docs Kelvin on Twitter Kelvin on YouTube Kelvin’s website Sailsconf keynote announcing The Boring Stack Why the name Who is Boring for? Sails.js Sa…

News: Paige - Nx Project Crystal Jack - Simple Stack Streaming TJ - Apple breaking PWAs in the EU Bonus News: Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Mr. & Mrs. Smith TV series Jack - The Murderbot Diaries book series TJ - Casey Neistat’s video on the Apple Vision Pro Join Us: Thanks as always to o…

News: Paige - Vite 5.1 Jack - LLRT and Million Lint TJ - Interop 2024 & wpt.fyi Bonus News: React Native visionOS for the Apple Vision Pro jQuery 4 beta What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - A Court of Mist and Fury book (sequel to A Court of Thorns and Roses) Jack - A Libertarian Walks into a Bear book TJ - Only Murders in the Building Join Us: T…

Special Guest(s): Rachel Nabors, formerly of React at Meta known for their work on reactnative.dev and react.dev Evan Bacon, Engineering Manager at Expo Matt Carroll, Developer Advocate React at Meta Relevant Links: The Two Reacts blog post by Dan Abramov Rachel Nabors on Twitter, @rachelnabors Evan Bacon on Twitter, @Baconbrix Matt Carroll on Twit…

News: Paige - Code editor Zed goes open source Jack - “Hey Code” in VS Code TJ - Apple changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the EU Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox Bonus News: Open Props What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Kindle Paperwhite Jack - Oura smart ring TJ - One Piece on Netflix Jo…

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News: Paige - New Web Components features from the W3C Jack - Code Hike TJ - Apple Vision Pro and Apple Vision Pro drama Bonus News: Bun Shell - experimental shell scripting in JS What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - ColorIt Mandalas coloring book Jack - Brothers Sun TV series TJ - Lugeing! Join Us: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Colla…

News: Paige - ReScript 11.0 - a TS competitor Jack - Donut components Matteo Frana: React, where are you going? Cassidy Williams: Kind of annoyed at React TJ - OpenAI launches a GPT Store & Netlify’s example What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Fargo TV series and JustThe Recipe.com Jack - The Marvels movie TJ - Paprika app Join Us: Thanks as alw…

News: Paige - Superglue - Rails with React & Redux framework Jack - Svelte 5 preview TJ - NY Times is Suing OpenAI Bonus news: Knip What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - A Court of Thorns and Roses book Jack - What If…? season 2 TJ - CES Join Us: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Disc…

News: Paige - TanStack Router 1.0 Jack - Catalyst UI Kit TJ - date-fns v3 What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Money Heist: Berlin Jack - Personalized art and wine experience TJ - Fourth Wing book Join Us: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, reach out to us via email o…

News: The Adobe Figma merger fell apart Predictions: Paige - More native JS APIs Jack - A return to simpler JS frameworks TJ - AI in the whole code base What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Morning Show TV series Jack - Twinkly Christmas Lights TJ - Coffee advent calendar from Brew Company Join Us: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Co…

News: Paige - Waku - new minimal React framework designed for RSCs Jack - Agile 2 TJ - Safari 17.2 Bonus News: Peach Fuzz is the 2024 color of the year Envy HTTP tracing Cody AI code assistant What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Twinkly Christmas lights and Slow Horses TV series Jack - The Artful Dodger TV series TJ - Wheel of Time TV series Joi…

News: Paige - XState v5 debuts the “actor model” Jack - StyleX TJ - Deno Cron Bonus News: VS Code floating editor windows What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - General good health Jack - CO2 detector TJ - Twinkly Christmas Lights Join Us: Outro: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Disco…

News: Paige - CSS nesting is supported by all major browsers Jack - Streaming components from server actions using the Vercel AI SDK library TJ - State of JavaScript 2023 survey Bonus 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 …