Front-End Fire
A weekly show that helps you stay up to date on the latest and greatest in the front-end world.
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152 episodes
151: Fixing AI’s Microservices Problem
Nx debuts Polygraph, a "synthetic monorepo" that gives AI agents a unified view across microservice boundaries, Deno Desktop takes aim at Electron by compiling web projects into single-binary native apps, and fresh SignalFire hiring data shows ...
150: The Government Said “No Fable For You”
Anthropic's new Fable model gets pulled days after launch when the US government restricts foreign access, a fully open-source Chinese model claims Claude Opus-level benchmarks for a fraction of the price, and MDN ships an MCP server to keep AI...
149: Rise of the React Foundation
React officially leaves the Meta building to live under the new React Foundation (and the React Compiler gets rewritten in Rust), Apple's WWDC unveils a stacked Safari 27 beta, and Chrome DevTools 149 levels up its AI features. A jam-packed wee...
148: The Bots Have Officially Taken Over
In this episode: people are still writing new programming language, Microsoft is going all "developers, developers, developers" again, and bots are apparently outnumbering humans on the web now.Timestamps:1:55 - Bot traffic h...
147: Vercel Made a Programming Language for Robots
In this episode npm implements staged publishing, Deno is patrolling your claws, and Vercel has a new agent-first language.Timestamps:0:58 - npm staged publishing4:52 - Claw Patrol11:00 - zerolang20...
146: Humans vs AI—Fight!
On this episode: Rust has another convert, npm takes another stab at stopping the hackers, and Jack had a coding battle against robots.Timestamps:1:00 - Bun switches to Rust6:45 - Jack’s battle against AI on Greenfie...
145: AI Layoffs Will Continue Until Morale Improves
In this episode: An IDE written in Rust hits 1.0; more vulnerabilities, this time in TanStack and Next.js; and the AI layoffs continue—we’ll discuss whether you should be worried.Timestamps:0:46 - Alternative editor Zed hits ...
144: Did Tanner Just Replace React?
In this episode, we look at whether “founding sponsor” is becoming the new AI acqui-hire, Tanner building a possible React replacement, and how Claude could get faster thanks to a new deal with SpaceX.Timestamps:0:...
143: The AI Bill Is Due
In this episode:pnpm tightens its security stanceWe talk about whether the AI bill is coming dueAnd Remix v3 is back in the newsTimestamps:1:35 - The AI price hike16:31 - Remix v3 ...
142: Vercel Had a Week
In this episode:Anthropic sets its sights on designersVercel has a “security incident”And Elon eyes an IDETimestamps:0:50 - Anthropic introduces Claude Design10:07 - Vercel’s secur...
141: When AI Belongs in Products with Dan Wilson & Kyler Krenek
This week special guests Dan Wilson of DataCurl and Kyler Krenek of Vowel join us to discuss when AI belongs in products and what kinds of AI tools are best suited to different needs.Special Guests:Dan Wilson, Principal Partn...
140: Cloudflare is Coming for WordPress
One of the former React Core team members caused quite the stir last week when he released Pretext, a TypeScript library that uses math to make text measurement and layout super fast. Handy for niche use cases? Definitely. Controversial online?...
139: Claude Code’s Secrets Are Out
This week, Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code’s source code to the world when it published a source map inside an npm release. While the offending file was quickly removed, the code was out there and folks got to work speculating about w...
138: Next.js Leans into AI Agents
Microsoft dropped the last version of JavaScript-powered TypeScript this week with TS 6.0. TypeScript 6 bridges the gap between the TS of yesteryear and the soon to come Go-powered TS compiler of TypeScript 7 that users can fix now so they can ...
137: Netlify Enters the AI App Builder Race
This week the VoidZero team shipped Vite 8. It’s using Rolldown under the hood and boasting 30x faster builds, full plugin compatibility, integrated devtools, and a searchable registry for all plugins.Co-host Jack has officially joined N...
136: VoidZero Wants to be the Laravel of JavaScript
JavaScript framework Eleventy has been renamed Build Awesome, 1.5 years after joining the Font Awesome stable. The name change precedes Build Awesome Pro, which will offer premium features alongside the features Eleventy users know and love. To...
135: Bun is Back in the Oven
This week's a non-AI episode!It’s been a minute since we last discussed Bun, but the team is back with a new release. In v1.3.10, the REPL’s completely rewritten in Zig, barrel imports are optimized, and the JavaScriptCore engine got upg...
134: Anthropic is Having a Week
This week’s episode is all about Anthropic. First up, Anthropic unveiled Claude Remote Control, which will let users continue a Claude session back on their personal machine from a phone, tablet via the Claude mobile app. Watch out OpenClaw.
133: State of React 2025: The Results Are In
It’s survey results reason, and the State of React 2025 results are in! As in the past, Next.js continues to dominate as one of the most used frameworks, but TanStack Start is one to watch. Other honorable mentions include: Zustand,...
132: What Developers Really Think: State of JS 2025 Survey Results
The State of JavaScript 2025 survey results are in this week, and there’s some givens and some surprises this year. Givens: Vite's still a favorites and devs want more native TS features. Surprises: ChatGPT usage declined, no one’s using Windsu...
131: OpenClaw and the Wild West of Autonomous AI Agents
Malicious code is making its way into VS Code extensions this week, as two Chinese-based AI coding assistants are identified as capturing every file on a user’s computer and sending it to servers in China without their knowledge or consent. Ple...
130: TanStack Start Embraces RSC—Minus the Security Nightmares
You heard it here first, folks, RSC support is now available in TanStack Start! Since TanStack Start supports not only React but also Solid, it handles serialization differently, meaning the critical security vulnerabilities RSC-enabled React a...
129: The Era of Humans Writing Code is Over
jQuery is the JavaScript library that just won’t quit. 20 years after its inception the team released jQuery 4.0.0, and it brings some notable modernizations including removed support for IE 10, a migration to ES modules, and support for Truste...
128: What the Heck is a Ralph Wiggum Loop?
A new year, a new tactic to stem the flow of npm supply chain attacks. This time, the proposal is for “Staged Publishing” which introduces a review window that a package owner must approve before a package release becomes publicly available.
127: Are People Leaving Next.js for TanStack Start?
We’re back with our first episode of 2026, and prominent software developer and YouTuber, Theo Browne, made waves recently when he announced he’d migrated his T3 Chat app from the Next.js framework to TanStack Start. It isn’t that Next.js is ba...