Front-End Fire
A weekly show that helps you stay up to date on the latest and greatest in the front-end world.
Episodes
125 episodes
124: TanStack Enters the AI Arena—Meet TanStack AI
This week TanStack joins the AI wars with the alpha release of TanStack AI: an open-source AI SDK with a unified interface across multiple providers. TanStack AI is an open-source ecosystem of libraries and standards, and it is client, server, ...
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Episode 124
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123: Is Google’s Antigravity IDE a Game-Changer or Just Another Fork?
Another week, another new AI IDE. This week, Google released the Antigravity IDE (yet another VS Code fork) which offers unique twists like “cross-surface” agents, user feedback to agent-generated artifacts, and a view of all agents across any ...
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Episode 123
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122: Snapchat Drops Valdi—A New Challenger to React Native?
In a surprise move, Snapchat open sources its cross-platform UI Valdi. Valdi lets devs write UI components in TypeScript then compiles them to native views on iOS, Android, and macOS, offers instant hot reload without recompiling, and integrate...
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Episode 122
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121: Chrome DevTools Gets AI Superpowers
This week is a news roundup while cohost Jack is away for a hackathon in SF. First up, is how Chrome DevTools has added AI to its panels. Now users can ask Gemini to explain console errors, make CSS changes via in the elements tab, ...
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Episode 121
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120: Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
It’s been almost 3 weeks since the React Compiler hit v1.0 and Jack gives an update on the ease of adding it to a React-based project and immediate performance improvement he’s seen from it. Popular AI-powered IDE Cursor just releas...
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Episode 120
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119: Vercel’s Double Feature—Next.js 16 and Ship AI
Another week, another new AI-browser. This time it’s OpenAI’s turn to introduce ChatGPT Atlas. As with the other AI browsers, Atlas knows the context of open tabs, has an agent that can do things for you, and (maybe its defining feature) it has...
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Episode 119
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118: Bun 1.3 - From Runtime to Full-Stack Powerhouse
Back in May, the Remix cofounders revealed they were reimagining Remix v3 from the ground up, and this past week at Remix Jam, they gave a sneak peek of it. It’s fair to say this new framework shouldn’t be called Remix at all because it’s depar...
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Episode 118
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React Goes Independent: Inside the New React Foundation
It’s been a big week for React devs as the annual React Conf just wrapped up in Las Vegas. The biggest news? React and React Native are moving out from under Meta to a new React Foundation with an independent technical governance st...
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Episode 117
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Claude Code Levels Up: VS Code Extension, Checkpoints & Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic dropped a bunch of good Claude Code updates. There’s a new a native VS Code extension, a v2 of the terminal version of Claude, code checkpoints, and it’s all powered by Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic’s best coding model yet.On top of Cl...
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Episode 116
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Adam Argyle on Cracking the 2025 Web Dev Interview
CSS wizard, and now Staff Design Engineer at Shopify, Adam Argyle, joins us on this episode to talk about what web development interviews are like in 2025 and what folks can do to stand out today.Links:
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Episode 115
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npm Under Siege: The “Shai-Hulud” Worm Attack
The supply chain attacks on npm continue and this week, Crowdstrike’s npm packages fell victim to the “Shai-Hulud” worm. To mitigate the potential of downloading these malicious packages, consider pinning specific package versions i...
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Episode 114
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npm’s Biggest Supply Chain Attack (and What We Learned)
Just 5 months ago we covered how Storybook 9 was in beta, and already Storybook 10 is in beta. The biggest change is that Storybook is going all in on ESM and dropping CJS support, which is making for some big performance gains and smaller bund...
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Episode 113
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Warp Code and the Future of Agent-Driven Dev
The Google vs. the US anti-trust lawsuit has finally drawn to a close, and (spoiler alert) Google doesn’t have to sell Chrome (or Android, for that matter). Going forward it will have to share certain search data with its rivals, and that’s abo...
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Episode 112
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Bun v1.2: SQL, YAML & Security Scans
Last episode, we lamented Claude’s lack of checkpoints to roll back code when it goes off the rails. Other devs feel the same, and this week Checkpoints for Claude Code debuted. It’s an MCP server that follows Claude Code, creating checkpoints ...
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Episode 111
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Alchemy: IaC Without Terraform
The latest craze for MCP this week? Instead of multiple MCP servers with different tools, use an MCP server that accepts programming code as tool inputs - a single “ubertool” if you will. AI agents like Claude Code are pretty good at writing co...
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Episode 110
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TanStack Devtools: One Panel to Rule Them All
You just can’t keep TanStack out of the news for more than a few weeks before a new product appears. This week, it’s TanStack Devtools, which provides a centralized devtools panel of all the Tanstack libraries for streamlined DX and custom devt...
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Episode 109
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TanStack DB: Reactive Apps Without Firebase
There’s drama brewing between AI-answer engine company Perplexity and hosting platform Cloudflare, which recently declared it would actively block AI bots from crawling websites without the owners’ permission. Cloudflare received complaints, se...
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Episode 108
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Is es-toolkit the Lodash Killer?
There’s a new utility library in town called es-toolkit, and it’s gunning for Lodash. 2-3x faster, 97% smaller, full TypeScript support, and using modern JavaScript APIs, es-toolkit’s just added a “Lodash compatibility layer” to ensure an ident...
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Episode 107
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Is Open Source Software Infrastructure?
GitHub is advocating for a European Union Sovereign Tech Fund to help pay the open source software developers building and maintaining software relied upon by economies and societies just like any other necessary infrastructure like roads and b...
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Episode 106
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Windsurf’s 72-Hour Power Shuffle
There are so many headlines about AI IDE Windsurf as of late, but we’ll try to catch you up. First, OpenAI wanted to buy Windsurf for $3B, but the deal fell through due to Microsoft. Next, Google hired Windsurf’s top execs and resea...
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Episode 105
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Vercel Acquires Nuxt and Nitro
Tech companies continue the acquisition spree of the summer when Vercel announces it’s hired the creators of NuxtLabs, the folks who build metaframework Nuxt and server runtime Nitro.Figma returns to the newscycle with the introduction o...
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Episode 104
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Cloudflare Drops the Hammer on AI Crawlers
The 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 ...
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Episode 103
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Battle of the AI CLIs: Jack Tests Them All
The 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...
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Episode 102
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45:36
Oxlint 1.0: The Linter That Leaves ESLint in the Dust
In 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 - Oxl...
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Episode 101
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Rolldown-Vite: Evan You Just Made Vite 16x Faster
We 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 repla...
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Episode 100
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