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.

  1. FA 2 DIES

    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, 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 with increased speed, reliability, and precision. And instead of complicated build processes to convert HTML to markdown for AI agents’ benefit, Cloudflare now offers real-time content conversion when AI systems request pages from any Cloudflare site. That’s pretty great! Timestamps: 1:03 - State of React survey results12:22 - WebMCP24:27 - Markdown for AI agents34:27 - TypeScript 6.0 beta38:00 - Chrome gets split view41:09 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Markdown for AI agentsJack - WebMCPTJ - State of React 2025 survey results and Claude ReceiptsLightning News:  TypeScript 6.0 betaChrome gets split viewWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - New Girl TV showJack - GridfinityTJ - The ResidenceThanks 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

    50 min

  2. 16 DE FEBR.

    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 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 actually intensify it. Employees work faster, take on more tasks, and work longer hours, which can lead to burnout, cognitive fatigue, and lower quality work over time.  And there’s yet another new React2Shell flaw that’s being exploited by the ILOVEPOOP toolkit to scan and target vulnerable Next.js and RSC environments. Patch your React apps, folks. Timestamps: 0:59 - State of JS survey results23:53 - Harvard Business Review’s report on how AI is changing work35:30 - React2Shell exploits and ILOVEPOOP40:08 - The largest domain name purchase ever43:00 - Adobe Acrobat can turn PDFs into podcasts46:48 - We hit 100k downloads!47:55 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - State of JavaScript survey results 2025Jack - React2Shell exploitsTJ - HBR reports AI didn’t shrink work for employees, it intensified it and the burnout is getting realLightning News:  Thanks for helping us reach 100k downloads!The largest publicly disclosed domain name purchase everAdobe Acrobat can turn PDFs into podcastsWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - San Diego Zoo Safari ParkJack - Bambu Lab H2CTJ - Ubuntu OSThanks 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

    59 min

  3. 9 DE FEBR.

    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. 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 isolated secrets—make these sandboxes great for AI agents, or any other dynamic workload where speed and security are paramount. And the software going viral this week is OpenClaw (aka Clawdbot aka Moltbot), which is an open source, autonomous AI agent that runs locally on a user’s machine. OpenClaw can connect to LLMs and perform tasks like managing emails, scheduling, reorganizing local files or other daily tasks, and is designed to be proactive rather than just reacting to prompts. It’s truly the Wild West giving an AI agent access to read all the files on a machine or respond to emails on its own, so be careful out there, folks. Timestamps: 1:07 - VS Code AI plugins are stealing data10:47 - Deno sandboxes16:09 - OpenClaw43:41 - More Gemini features are coming to Chrome45:33 - Apple containers46:44 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - VS Code AI plugins are stealing all the data of users computers (silently)Jack - Deno sandboxesTJ - OpenClaw (aka Clawdbot aka Moltbot) and our lack of trust for AI agentsLightning News:  More Gemini features are coming to ChromeApple ContainersWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Claude CodeJack - Sneakers movieTJ - Firefox browserThanks 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

    57 min

  4. 2 DE FEBR.

    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 apps have been suffering from lately won’t affect TanStack apps. Yarn 6 was recently announced, and (surprise, surprise) it’s going to be ported to Rust. Get ready for blazing fast installs, the ability to easily switch between Yarn versions, and lazy installs to silently keep dependency versions in sync with the package.json.  Also on the Rust bandwagon is the VoidZero team with Rolldown 1.0 RC. Rolldown is the bundler successor to Rollup, and boasts 10-30x faster speeds than Rollup while maintaining API plugin compatibility, built-in transforms, and native CJS/ESM interoperability. All hail the perf gains of JS tools written in Rust. 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: Paige - Landman season 2Jack - VaselineTJ - ChatGPT continuing to help me around the houseThanks 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

    42 min

  5. 26 DE GEN.

    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 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 popular JavaScript framework Astro. Cloudflare has been a good steward to other OSS projects in the past, and this acquisition allows the Astro team to focus on making the framework even better. Timestamps: 0:50 - jQuery 4.07:58 - Is the era of humans writing code over?18:23 - Cloudflare acquires Astro24:54 - Vertical tabs are coming to Chrome29:37 - Apple is going to use Gemini for Siri43:07 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Ryan Dahl declares humans writing code is overJack - Cloudflare acquires AstroTJ - jQuery 4.0Lightning News:  Chrome adds support for vertical tabsApple and Google enter agreement to use Gemini for Apple IntelligenceWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Onyx Storm bookJack - Learning to play Born to Run on guitarTJ - Only Murders in the Building TV series and Dungeon Crawler Carl book seriesThanks 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

    51 min

  6. 19 DE GEN.

    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. 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 character Ralph Wiggum is the biggest thing in AI coding recently. Ralph is an AI development pattern using a while loop (like a bash script) to repeatedly run an AI agent on the same task, feeding its output back as context, and forcing it to iterate until a specific completion promise is met, rather than letting the AI stop prematurely. Interesting? Yes! Useful in practice? Still tbd. Chapter Markers: 1:04 - npm to implement staged publishing8:16 - Vercel’s json-render16:13 - Ralph Wiggum loops30:53 - Claude Code tips33:52 - Firefox 147 and anchor positioning35:42 - Fire starter39:40 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - npm to implement Staged PublishingJack - Vercel Labs’ json-renderTJ - Ralph Wiggum loopsLightning News:  Firefox 147 and anchor positioningFire Starters: CSS @container scroll-state()What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Rolife Book Nook Garden House miniatureJack - Blade Runner live at the symphonyTJ - Coffee advent calendarsThanks 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

    47 min

  7. 12 DE GEN.

    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 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 popular projects (by GitHub stars) for the year include n8n (a workflow automation platform), react-bits (gorgeous animated React components), shadcn/ui (more UI components), and Excalidraw (virtual whiteboard for sketching and diagramming). In less stellar news, the creator of the wildly popular CSS library Tailwind announced he’s had to lay off 75% of his engineering team because AI has killed traffic to its website (and by association, Tailwind’s commercial products that drive revenue). It was hard enough before the rise of AI for OSS to get funding, and this is just another cautionary tale that we need to support the people building the tools and products so many of us use every day in our jobs. Timestamps: 1:54 - Theo moves off Next.js and resulting buzz11:32 - A look at the 2025 JS rising stars23:25 - Is AI hurting Tailwind?31:03 - Lego smart bricks35:45 - What’s making us happy News: Paige - Is AI killing OSS now? Tailwind thinks soJack - Theo moved off Next.js to TanStack Start and the internet is buzzing TJ - 2025 rising starsLightning News:  Lego smart bricksWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Flip-It! Bottle emptying capsJack - Miami Hurricanes football team TJ - New Pokemon GO featuresThanks 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

    47 min

  8. 22/12/2025

    126: The 2025 Holiday Spectacular

    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 web APIs didn’t appear (as Jack and Paige predicted), AI agents evolving to be capable of implementing whole new features and debugging bigger problems in code was spot on (point goes to TJ). Predictions for 2026? With the continued popularity of AI for coding, TJ believes we’ll treat HTML more like assembly code. Paige predicts an uptick in Internet outages and supply chain attacks, and more scrutiny of if AI features are really as valuable as we’ve been led to believe. Jack feels this is the year SolidJS takes off, and “code mode” for AI agents is going to add even more value than the creation of MCP servers last year. Just like last year, the things that made us happiest are pretty simple: maintaining consistent routines like exercising, reading books, and stepping away from the keyboard. And using the tools often used for work for fun, creative projects like a homemade fanfiction audiobook. And as always, thank you, Front-end Fire listeners! We wouldn’t be here without you, and we’ve enjoyed getting to know many of you more over the past year. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season, and we’ll be back in 2026 with more frontend goodness. Timestamps: 2:36 - Revisiting old predictions18:01 - 2026 predictions39:26 - What’s making us happy2024 Predictions Revisited: Paige - New web APIsJack - A return to simplicity in coding frameworksTJ - AI agents solving bigger coding problems2026 Predictions:  Paige - More tech attacks and less AI hype, more AI scrutinyJack - SolidJS 2.0 and “code mode” is going to unlock even more AI agent functionalityTJ - We start treating HTML like assembly codeWhat Makes Us Happy this Year: Paige - Consistent routines (as boring as that sounds): regular exercise, regularly practicing hobbies and reading books Jack - Descript and Claude for a homemade fanfic audiobookTJ - Reading booksThanks 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

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

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  • Creació
    TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington
  • Anys en actiu
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodis
    134
  • Qualificació
    Apte
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    © 2026 Front-End Fire
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    Front-End Fire

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