
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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113 episodes
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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51:57

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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41:36

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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54:37

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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50:34

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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45:34

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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47:54

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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45:42

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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51:38

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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41:28

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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40:56

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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35:29

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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44:01

The Browser Company Kills Arc
OpenAI 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 c...
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Episode 99
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49:20

Zod v4: Prettier, Better, Faster, Smaller
It’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...
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Episode 98
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53:59

VS Code Open Sources GitHub Copilot Chat
This week both Google and Microsoft held conferences where they announced all the new, great AI breakthroughs, but there were a few other notable, web dev-focused pieces in between. VS Code announced it will be open sourcing the GitHub Copilot ...
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Episode 97
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37:26

GraphQL and AI with Apollo CTO Matt DeBergalis
CTO and co-founder of Apollo, Matt DeBergalis, joins us on this episode to talk about how GraphQL has continued to evolve over time, and how Apollo is focused on making it more accessible for developers and AI agents than ever before.For...
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Episode 96
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47:19

TanStack DB & The Rise of the Tannerverse
TanStack, 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 U...
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Episode 95
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39:35

Design, 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.
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Episode 94
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49:25

React Activity, Storybook 9 Beta, and AI as a Collaborator, Not a Crutch
The 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 stat...
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Episode 93
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55:50

Alien Signals, React Compiler Hits RC, and RedwoodSDK Plans Revealed
Signals 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 improve...
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Episode 92
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37:14

All AI All the Time: OpenAI’s Codex, the Web Dev AI Survey, and More
The 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 millio...
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Episode 91
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45:21

Agents Assemble: Google’s A2A Protocol, Copilot Reviews & RedwoodJS Reborn
Google 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 differ...
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Episode 90
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50:17

tRPC 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 ...
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Episode 89
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36:53

VS Code & GitHub Copilot Announcements with Burke Holland and Harald Kirschner
Special guests Burke Holland and Harald Kirschner from Microsoft join us on this episode to share the new GitHub Copilot features coming to VS Code and beyond.First up: agent mode is now available to all users in VS Code. GitHub Copilot ...
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Episode 88
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55:55
