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123: Is Google’s Antigravity IDE a Game-Changer or Just Another Fork?
On this episode:We have yet another VS Code fork, but this time it’s from GoogleUniwind makes Tailwind styling easy for React Native devsThe Rust versus TypeScript debate continuesTimestamps:1:27 - Prisma 7.09:35 - Uniwind12:18 - Antigravity27:32 - Angular v21 release video29:20 - Cloudflare outage37:11 - Firefox gets an AI window38:47 - State of React survey open40:36 - What’s making us happyNews:Paige - UniwindJack - Prisma 7.0TJ - AntigravityLightning News:Firefox gets an AI windowCloudflare had a big outageThe State of React Survey 2025 is now openAngular v21 Dev Release videoWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Upcoming holidays and seeing familyJack - StroboClip HD for the guitarTJ - Dungeon Crawler Carl bookThanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube.Front-end Fire websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
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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 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 with tailored prompts and tools, new Copilot integrations and agentic code review, and Plan Mode. TanStack DB released v0.5 and Query-Driven Sync. With Query-Driven Sync, a component’s query is the API call and DB handles the fetching, caching, and updating, and provides different sync modes for different use cases. Chapter Markers:0:47 - Snapchat open sources cross-platform tool Valdi7:08 - GitHub Universe updates15:45 - TanStack DB query-driven sync19:54 - GitHub eliminates toasts22:49 - Firefox has an updated mascot24:09 - Vibe coding named word of the year33:26 - What’s making us happyNews:Paige - Snapchat open sources cross-platform UI ValdiJack - TanStack DB query-driven syncTJ - GitHub Universe recapLightning News:GitHub eliminates toasts from their designsFirefox has an updated mascotVibe coding named word of the yearWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Holiday light displaysJack - Cursor ComposerTJ - Inflatable dragon yard decorationThanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube.Front-end Fire websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
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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, 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 improved history caching.Angular’s meta-framework AnalogJS also just launched 2.0 which offers file-based routing, better Vite ecosystem support, and unified SSR, SSG, and islands-style hydration in one cohesive setup.Rumor has it that next year Apple will be using Gemini to drive Siri, as it continues to try and get Apple Intelligence to work reliably.GitHub has officially disabled classic token creation for npm publishing in an effort to reign in the supply chain attacks we’ve reported on for the last few months. And last but not least, a company called NEO has a home assistant robot available for preorder now. The robot can clean, fold laundry, do dishes, and so on, but here’s the kicker: it’s a human piloting it remotely. Is this really the robot enhanced future we imagined?Timestamps:1:16 - Chrome DevTools gets a bunch of AI features8:39 - htmx v4 alpha14:25 - AnalogJS 2.017:09 - Apple allegedly to use Gemini to drive Siri22:13 - GitHub disables classic token creation for npm27:38 - NEO home robot35:58 - What’s making us happyNews:Paige - HTMX goes right from v2 to v4 (alpha)TJ - Chrome DevTools gets a bunch of AI featuresLightning News:AnalogJS 2.0Apple allegedly to use Gemini to drive SiriGitHub’s disabled classic token creation for npmNEO home robotWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - The Survivalists novelTJ - Pokemon Legends Z–A gameThanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube.Front-end Fire websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
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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 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 whether the AI hype bubble is about to burst, if it’s really capable of stealing anyone’s jobs, and how much you should trust an LLM when making decisions about things like the tech stack for a new project. Timestamps:1:43 - React Compiler 1.08:13 - Cursor 2.022:28 - AI discussion on bubbles and more43:13 - What’s making us happyNews:Paige - AI: bubbles and more bubbles, employment impact, and proper useJack - React Compiler 1.0TJ - Cursor 2.0What Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Heated Under Desk Foot RestJack - The Toxic Avenger movieTJ - A London reporter interviewed the wrong Bill DeBlasioThanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube.Front-end Fire websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
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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 "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 with Vite+, with the performance we expect from a compiler toolchain built completely in Rust. Plus, it’s free for individual users and OSS projects, and has annual licensing prices for startups and enterprises.Vercel held not one but two conferences this week: Next.js Conf and then Ship AI. Next.js 16 was unveiled with improvements to Turbopack, a Next.js DevTools MCP, and updates to Cache Components. And Ship AI covered updates to the AI SDK, Vercel’s AI Gateway and Agents, and more. Chapter Markers:02:05 - ChatGPT Atlas12:38 - Vite+20:21 - Next.js conf and Ship AI28:07 - Claude Code on the web33:02 - The Louvre was robbed38:02 - What’s making us happyNews:Paige - Vite+Jack - Next.js Conf and Ship AI conf updatesTJ - ChatGPT AtlasLightning News:Claude Code on the webThe Louvre was robbedWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - The Diplomat TV seriesJack - Timers to limit doom scrollingTJ - Claude CodeThanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube.Front-end Fire websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fireFollow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
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