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Front-End Fire

TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

A weekly show that helps you stay up to date on the latest and greatest in the front-end world.

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56:58

npm Under Siege: The “Shai-Hulud” Worm Attack

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2025/09/22

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 in JS projects and using 2FA to publish new package versions to npm. Also this week, WebAssembly Specification (Wasm) released v3.0. This version dramatically expands the memory Wasm apps can use, supports multiple memory usage, and now allows garbage collecti...

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50:13

npm’s Biggest Supply Chain Attack (and What We Learned)

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2025/09/15

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 bundle sizes. This past week, npm suffered the largest supply chain attack in its history when a prolific OSS maintainer got phished. Luckily, the attack was noticed and reported within the hour and it looks like the hackers got next to nothing for their ef...

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51:57

Warp Code and the Future of Agent-Driven Dev

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2025/09/08

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 about it, so this is definitely a big win for Google any way you look at it. The popular terminal company Warp just unveiled Warp Code - a suite of features for shipping agent-generated code “all the way from prompt to production” via the Warp terminal. Wa...

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41:36

Bun v1.2: SQL, YAML & Security Scans

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2025/09/01

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 when tasks are completed, allowing for easy reverts when needed. The Bun team quietly pushed some nice new features in Bun v1.2. Highlights include: a unified SQL client with zero dependencies, native YAML file support, OS native credential storage for ...

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54:37

Alchemy: IaC Without Terraform

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2025/08/25

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 code, but letting the agent write and execute code to invoke API functions instead of using a defined MCP server doesn’t seem like the most efficient use of LLM tokens, but it's another approach to consider. In infrastructure news, there’s a library calle...

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50:34

TanStack Devtools: One Panel to Rule Them All

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2025/08/18

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 devtools support. The State of CSS 2025 survey results are in, and highlights include: devs love the new `:has()` feature, Tailwind CSS continues to be the most popular CSS framework, and over 60% of respondents are still using Sass or SCSS in their web app...

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45:34

TanStack DB: Reactive Apps Without Firebase

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2025/08/11

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, set up its own test sites, and then asked Perplexity pointed questions only - and got answers! Not a great look, Perplexity. Two years after Vercel launched v1 of its AI SDK, it has dropped v5, and it’s got some major improvements. Rebuilt chat hooks, imp...

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47:54

Is es-toolkit the Lodash Killer?

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2025/08/04

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 identical API and 100% Lodash compatibility. oRPC is the newest wrinkle in the Remote Procedural Call (RPC) world, and it promotes easy to build APIs that are end-to-end type-safe and adhere to OpenAPI standards. Stack Overflow’s 15th developer survey ...

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45:42

Is Open Source Software Infrastructure?

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2025/07/28

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 bridges. Apple gets called out by the Open Web Advocacy group saying its technical rules and restrictions are blocking other browser vendors from successfully offering their own search engines to iOS users in the EU. Last episode we talked about Amazon’s...

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51:38

Windsurf’s 72-Hour Power Shuffle

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2025/07/21

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 researchers to work on its AI products, but didn’t buy the Windsurf IDE, for $2.4B. Then, Cognition bought the remainder of Windsurf’s IP (and its staff) to integrate into its own products like Devin. And did we mention this all happened in the span of 72 hours? A...

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41:28

Vercel Acquires Nuxt

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2025/07/14

In this episode: Vercel acquires more JS metaframework creatorsFigma joins the MCP gameAnd everyone is building a web browserTimestamps: 1:13 - Vercel acquires NuxtLabs5:54 - Figma releases an MCP Server13:41 - OpenAI and Perplexity announce browsers26:08 - Xmcp framework29:06 - CSS conditions with if()33:05 - What’s making us happyLinks: Paige - NuxtLabs joins VercelJack - Figma Dev Mode MCP server TJ - Upcoming web browsers from OpenAI and Perplexity. Xmcp framework for building M...

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40:56

Cloudflare Drops the Hammer on AI Crawlers

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2025/07/07

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 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 ...

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45:36

Battle of the AI CLIs: Jack Tests Them All

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2025/06/30

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 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 o...

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35:29

Oxlint 1.0: The Linter That Leaves ESLint in the Dust

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2025/06/23

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 - 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 “sp...

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44:01

Rolldown-Vite: Evan You Just Made Vite 16x Faster

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2025/06/16

In this episode: 1:00 - void0’s Rolldown-Vite5:52 - Safari 26 beta21:26 - Dia, the new AI-browser from The Browser Company29:38 - Cursor raises $900 million Links: Paige - void0's Rolldown-ViteJack - Dia, the new AI-browser from The Browser CompanyTJ - Safari 26 betaLightning News: Cursor raises $900 millionWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Paradise TV seriesJack - Ballerina TJ - Apple Vision Pro on The Price is RightThanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channe...

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49:20

The Browser Company Kills Arc

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2025/06/09

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 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 detaili...

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53:59

Zod v4: Prettier, Better, Faster, Smaller

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2025/06/02

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 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 support...

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37:26

97. VS Code Open Sources GitHub Copilot Chat

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2025/05/26

In this episode: VS Code is open sourcing its AI chat extensionRemix’s “Declaration of Independence” blog leakedAnd Microsoft introduces yet another AI standardLightning News: Satya Nadella and podcastsIntroducing Claude 4 What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Daredevil: Born Again TV seriesJack - Baseball team Portland Pickles’ Red Head Appreciation NightTJ - The Philadelphia Inquirer’s summer reading listThanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. ...

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47:19

GraphQL and AI with Apollo CTO Matt DeBergalis

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2025/05/21

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 those less familiar with Apollo and GraphQL, Matt shares the history of both, including lessons he learned from founding the company Meteor that helped him while building Apollo. We discuss how even though GraphQL is making less headlines than it was a few y...

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39:35

TanStack DB & The Rise of the Tannerverse

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2025/05/19

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 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, an...

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