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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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134: Anthropic is Having a Week

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2026/03/02

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. Anthropic continued making news by refusing to bow to the Department of War’s request for “unrestricted use” of its AI for military purposes, including domestic surveillance and fully-autonomous weapons. We’ll let you know if those defense contracts get r...

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49:57

133: State of React 2025: The Results Are In

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2026/02/24

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, Vite, and (most importantly) Front-end Fire tying for fifth place in the podcast section. Thank you, listeners! Google has a new proposal called WebMCP, which is a way to define structured tools for agents visiting a site, ensuring they can perform actions w...

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132: What Developers Really Think: State of JS 2025...

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2026/02/16

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 Windsurf, and Bun is the third most-used JS runtime. And thanks for making us the most written-in podcast of the survey! We appreciate it! An 8 month study conducted by the Harvard Business Review reports AI tools don’t shrink work for employees, they actuall...

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57:08

131: OpenClaw and the Wild West of Autonomous AI Agents

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2026/02/09

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. Please just be cautious about what you’re installing on your machines, folks. In related news, the Deno team has introduced Deno sandboxes to create and deploy secure, isolated VMs in the cloud. Strict permissions, network policies, directories, and isolat...

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42:25

130: TanStack Start Embraces RSC—Minus the Security...

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2026/02/02

In this episode: Rolldown 1.0 reaches RC stageAnother JavaScript tool switches to RustAnd TanStack is going RSC Timestamps: 1:20 - TanStack Start RSC4:15 - Yarn 6 and Rust12:03 - Rolldown 1.0 RC16:38 - More RSC CVEs23:19 - Mozilla is building an AI “rebel alliance”30:05 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Rolldown 1.0 RCJack - TanStack Start RSCTJ - Yarn 6 and RustLightning News: Another day, another RSC CVEMozilla’s building an AI “rebel alliance”What Makes Us Happy this Week: P...

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50:35

129: The Era of Humans Writing Code is Over

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2026/01/26

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 Trusted Types. Node.js creator Ryan Dahl declared earlier this week that “the era of humans writing code is over”, and considering how good AI coding agents have gotten lately, he’s probably not wrong. Cloudflare also announces it has acquired pop...

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47:29

128: What the Heck is a Ralph Wiggum Loop?

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2026/01/19

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. Vercel Labs is out with a new AI tool called json-render that lets users generate dashboards, widgets, apps, and data visualizations from prompts, and constrains the response to JSON for only components pre-defined by the user. Finally, The Simpsons chara...

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127: Are People Leaving Next.js for TanStack Start?

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2026/01/12

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 bad, but that the requirements of T3 Chat were better supported by TanStack Start’s architecture, and Theo breaks down his evaluation process to reach that decision. For the 10th year in a row, the JavaScript Rising Stars report drops, and the most popula...

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52:00

126: The 2025 Holiday Spectacular

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2025/12/22

It’s that time of year again: the holidays are nearly upon us and 2026 is fast approaching, so it’s time for our year end holiday spectacular! This year our past predictions for the future of web development come back to haunt us, we make some bold new proclamations for what’s in store for 2026, and of course, share what’s made us happy this year. Our past predictions were pretty hit or miss. Although a surge in popularity for simpler frontend frameworks like SolidJS and a whole slew of new w...

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125: The RSC Vulnerabilities Keep Coming

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2025/12/15

Hot on the heels of the first critical vulnerability discovered in React applications using RSCs last week, two more vulnerabilities have surfaced, which is not uncommon. Even if you already updated for the critical vulnerability, you will need to update again. In lighter news, Anthropic donates MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation, just one year after introducing it to the world. MCP’s rise has been meteoric: 10,000 active public MCP servers, adoption by ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, VS Code...

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44:59

124: TanStack Enters the AI Arena—Meet TanStack AI

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2025/12/08

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, and AI provider agnostic, to make building AI-enabled apps accessible to all. In a surprise move, AI company Anthropic acquires JavaScript runtime Bun to accelerate its development of Claude Code. Apparently, Bun has been central to Claude Code reaching...

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48:56

123: Is Google’s Antigravity IDE a Game-Changer or...

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2025/11/24

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 workspace. The team behind the Unistyles cross-platform library just debuted Uniwind for all the React Native devs who want to use Tailwind styling in their native apps. Uniwind brings Tailwind-style className support to RN at build time, and has a cust...

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44:21

122: Snapchat Drops Valdi—A New Challenger to React...

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2025/11/17

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 integrates well into already existing native apps. GitHub Universe 2025 wrapped up just a few weeks ago, and it had a bunch of new AI agent updates to share. Think: a single source to manage agents across GitHub, Mobile, CLI, and VS Code, custom agents wit...

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121: Chrome DevTools Gets AI Superpowers

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2025/11/10

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, and explain traces collected in the performance panel. HTMX has also jumped from v2 to v4 (alpha), rebuilding the internals after 5 years of maintaining the project. Upgrades include: going from XMLHttpRequests to fetch, explicit attribute inheritance, and im...

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120: Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?

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2025/11/03

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 released v2.0, and it’s going hard on the agent mode, offering things like: a multi-agent interface where agents can run in parallel working on the same task with different models, and a new frontier model that’s 4x faster. Then the hosts then get existential about...

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119: Vercel’s Double Feature—Next.js 16 and Ship AI

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2025/10/27

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 "memory" built in so conversations can draw on past chats and details when needed. The team behind Vite reveals their path to revenue with command line devtool Vite+. Devs will soon be able to test, lint, format, bundle, and even view their apps’ stats...

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43:22

118: Bun 1.3 - From Runtime to Full-Stack Powerhouse

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2025/10/20

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 departed so far from its origins: devs manually update state, it uses signals, routes are defined in a TS doc, and it will ship with a component library, for starters. Will it catch on, who knows? Not to be outdone by React v19.2 last week, Next.js 16 beta d...

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React Goes Independent: Inside the New React Foundation

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2025/10/13

Coming up in this episode: React Conf happened this week, and we have a bunch of React news to cover.There’s a new React foundation and new React version.And Cloudflare announced something called Cap'n Web, so of course we need to talk about it.Chapter Markers: 03:18 - React Foundation07:10 - React Compiler 1.0 and React 19.217:13 - Cap’n Web24:19 - Opera Neon27:16 - The EU is considering cookie law changes31:43 - The Internet Archive hits 1 trillion pages33:33 - What’s making us happyLinks: ...

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41:58

Claude Code Levels Up: VS Code Extension, Checkpoints...

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2025/10/06

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 Claude’s glow up, the Google Chrome team launched a Chrome DevTools MCP. AI coding assistants will be able to debug web pages directly in a Chrome browser, including using DevTools to review network requests, console output and page structure, simulate user int...

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63:05

Adam Argyle on Cracking the 2025 Web Dev Interview

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2025/09/29

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: Adam’s nerdy.dev websiteAdam’s Argyle Ink websiteAdam on YouTubeAdam on BlueskyAdam on GitHubAdam on XAdam on LinkedInhttps://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce https://www.capcut.com What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Why Is This Interesting (WITI) newsletterTJ - Strands NYT game...

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