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Front-End Fire

TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington
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    130: TanStack Start Embraces RSC—Minus the Security Nightmares

    02/2/2026 | 42 min
    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 RSC
    4:15 - Yarn 6 and Rust
    12:03 - Rolldown 1.0 RC
    16:38 - More RSC CVEs
    23:19 - Mozilla is building an AI “rebel alliance”
    30:05 - What’s making us happy
    News:
    Paige - Rolldown 1.0 RC
    Jack - TanStack Start RSC
    TJ - Yarn 6 and Rust
    Lightning News: 
    Another day, another RSC CVE
    Mozilla’s building an AI “rebel alliance”
    What Makes Us Happy this Week:
    Paige - Landman season 2
    Jack - Vaseline
    TJ - ChatGPT continuing to help me around the house
    Thanks 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.
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    129: The Era of Humans Writing Code is Over

    26/1/2026 | 50 min
    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 4.0
    7:58 - Is the era of humans writing code over?
    18:23 - Cloudflare acquires Astro
    24:54 - Vertical tabs are coming to Chrome
    29:37 - Apple is going to use Gemini for Siri
    43:07 - What’s making us happy
    News:
    Paige - Ryan Dahl declares humans writing code is over
    Jack - Cloudflare acquires Astro
    TJ - jQuery 4.0
    Lightning News: 
    Chrome adds support for vertical tabs
    Apple and Google enter agreement to use Gemini for Apple Intelligence
    What Makes Us Happy this Week:
    Paige - Onyx Storm book
    Jack - Learning to play Born to Run on guitar
    TJ - Only Murders in the Building TV series and Dungeon Crawler Carl book series
    Thanks 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.
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    Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire
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    128: What the Heck is a Ralph Wiggum Loop?

    19/1/2026 | 47 min
    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 publishing
    8:16 - Vercel’s json-render
    16:13 - Ralph Wiggum loops
    30:53 - Claude Code tips
    33:52 - Firefox 147 and anchor positioning
    35:42 - Fire starter
    39:40 - What’s making us happy
    News:
    Paige - npm to implement Staged Publishing
    Jack - Vercel Labs’ json-render
    TJ - Ralph Wiggum loops
    Lightning News: 
    Firefox 147 and anchor positioning
    Fire Starters:
    CSS @container scroll-state()
    What Makes Us Happy this Week:
    Paige - Rolife Book Nook Garden House miniature
    Jack - Blade Runner live at the symphony
    TJ - Coffee advent calendars
    Thanks 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.
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    Blue Collar Coder on Discord
    Reach out via email
    Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire
    Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com
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    127: Are People Leaving Next.js for TanStack Start?

    12/1/2026 | 46 min
    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 buzz
    11:32 - A look at the 2025 JS rising stars
    23:25 - Is AI hurting Tailwind?
    31:03 - Lego smart bricks
    35:45 - What’s making us happy 
    News:
    Paige - Is AI killing OSS now? Tailwind thinks so
    Jack - Theo moved off Next.js to TanStack Start and the internet is buzzing 
    TJ - 2025 rising stars
    Lightning News: 
    Lego smart bricks
    What Makes Us Happy this Week:
    Paige - Flip-It! Bottle emptying caps
    Jack - Miami Hurricanes football team 
    TJ - New Pokemon GO features
    Thanks 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 website
    Blue Collar Coder on YouTube
    Blue Collar Coder on Discord
    Reach out via email
    Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire
    Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com
    Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
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    126: The 2025 Holiday Spectacular

    22/12/2025 | 52 min
    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 predictions
    18:01 - 2026 predictions
    39:26 - What’s making us happy
    2024 Predictions Revisited:
    Paige - New web APIs
    Jack - A return to simplicity in coding frameworks
    TJ - AI agents solving bigger coding problems
    2026 Predictions: 
    Paige - More tech attacks and less AI hype, more AI scrutiny
    Jack - SolidJS 2.0 and “code mode” is going to unlock even more AI agent functionality
    TJ - We start treating HTML like assembly code
    What 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 audiobook
    TJ - Reading books
    Thanks 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 website
    Blue Collar Coder on YouTube
    Blue Collar Coder on Discord
    Reach out via email
    Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire
    Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com
    Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

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