Front-End Fire TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington
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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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React Conf Highlights, Vercel Raises Another $250m, and Astro Adds Actions
We’ve got an exciting episode with our co-host Jack Herrington fresh from his trip to React Conf where the React core team and close collaborators unveiled all the cool things they’ve been working on, including the much anticipated React Compiler and some exciting new features for React Native Expo.React Compiler is a new Babel-enabled plugin that will allow React apps to handle the memoization and re-rendering of components in an application so that developers won’t have to use the useMemo()...
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News: const v. let & Effect 3.0 w/Special Guest Jason Lengstorf
On this episode of Front-End Fire we welcomed special guest Jason Lengstorf to chat about the news with us. We opened with a follow-up discussion of the let versus const debate from last week. Jack made a video (see below for link), and we had a bit of fun talking about the controversy.After that we introduced Effect, a library that dubs itself the missing standard library for TypeScript. Effect just had its first stable release, so we discussed what the library does, what sort of apps it wor...
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React 19, TypeScript 5.5, and GitHub Copilot Workspace Wants to Code For You
This week we’re all about beta releases and technical previews of AI that will make us even more productive coders.Since the release of React 18, just over 2 years ago, the React team’s been hard at work, and at the end of April, React 19 beta dropped on npm. This new version brings Server Components and Server Actions out from behind the canary channel, stating they are now stable and will not break between major versions going forward. In addition to this, v19 introduces Actions: hooks for ...
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Node 22, Hydrogen gets Remix(ed), and Vercel Backs Away from the Edge
There’s rarely a dull moment in the web development world and this week is no exception to that rule. The episode kicks off with an update on Shopify’s meta framework Hydrogen, which is now built on top of the open source framework, Remix, which Shopify acquired back in October of 2022. Hydrogen now has full Vite support and integration with the Vite plugins ecosystem, an overhaul of its SEO (now powered by Remix), full page caching, and a decrease in the CLI bundle size of 60%. Listener...
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News: Figma’s Code Connect, Next.js 14.2, and New APIs in Chrome 124
The episode starts off with news about Figma’s new Code Connect feature. Code Connect is the bridge between a design system’s component code and Figma, so when viewing components in Figma’s Dev Mode, they’ll have the same real world code that the design system relies on, and Code Connect can also map properties from code to Figma, enabling dynamic and correct snippets. The catch? This sweet new feature is only available to users who are on Figma’s Organization and Enterprise plans.We continue...
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News: Smaller images via Jpegli, Val Town Raises $5.5M, and Declarative Routing in Next.js
The group dives into the week’s news right away, starting off with a new open source project from Google called Jpegli. Jpepgli is a new JPEG coding library, which claims to compress images up to 35% smaller while also being able to deliver JPEGs in even higher quality than what is currently available today. The GitHub repo the article links to still looks to be in the early stages of development, but this could be a new solution for JPEGs, which traditionally can take quite a bit to load in ...
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If you’ve been missing the hosts of React Round Up, here they are! This show is somewhat different than RRU, though. It’s shorter, has a broader focus, and is more news oriented. Its an efficient yet fun way to keep up with all things front-end. Bonus: no ads besides a brief mention at the end for Blue Collar Coders.
I wish you guys do some basic research on Angular
Before I start, I work in Angular and React . Love both. While Angular community appreciates mentioning Analog.js but the lack of basic research around Angular is appalling. Let me point out few
1. Angular v17 is not yet released. It's in RC phase and will release next month (November 1-2nd week). It brings ton of features like signals, new control flow, defer block syntax, partial hydration and esbuild builder. You can simply find this their release notes in Github or wait for the new a blog post with details when it's reached stable.
2. Angular releases 2 versions every year and supports each version for 18 mon(LTS). They also provide smooth upgrade process unlike some of the libraries/frameworks.
3. While you guys mention Next.js turbo pack and when it will be ready with details, it clearly reflects the amount of effort you put into each one. And also mocking listeners "5 of the angular users listening" is bizarre.
4. Angular has a changed a ton since 2.0. In fact, you will have more content in it rather than React or etc. If you don't like to spend some time to learn, please don't mention it and stop spreading misinformation.