Front-End Fire

News:

• Paige - ReScript 11.0 - a TS competitor
• Jack - Donut components
  • Matteo Frana: React, where are you going?
  • Cassidy Williams: Kind of annoyed at React
• TJ - OpenAI launches a GPT Store & Netlify’s example

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Fargo TV series and JustThe Recipe.com
• Jack - The Marvels movie
• TJ - Paprika app

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News:

• Paige - Superglue - Rails with React & Redux framework
• Jack - Svelte 5 preview
• TJ - NY Times is Suing OpenAI

Bonus news:

• Knip

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - A Court of Thorns and Roses book
• Jack - What If…? season 2
• TJ - CES 

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News:

• Paige - TanStack Router 1.0
• Jack - Catalyst UI Kit
• TJ - date-fns v3

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Money Heist: Berlin 
• Jack - Personalized art and wine experience
• TJ - Fourth Wing book

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News:

• The Adobe Figma merger fell apart

Predictions:

• Paige - More native JS APIs
• Jack - A return to simpler JS frameworks
• TJ - AI in the whole code base

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Morning Show TV series
• Jack - Twinkly Christmas Lights 
• TJ - Coffee advent calendar from Brew Company

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News:

• Paige - Waku - new minimal React framework designed for RSCs
• Jack - Agile 2
• TJ - Safari 17.2

Bonus News:

• Peach Fuzz is the 2024 color of the year
• Envy HTTP tracing
• Cody AI code assistant

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Twinkly Christmas lights and Slow Horses TV series
• Jack - The Artful Dodger TV series
• TJ - Wheel of Time TV series

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News:

• Paige - XState v5 debuts the “actor model”
• Jack - StyleX
• TJ - Deno Cron

Bonus News:

• VS Code floating editor windows 

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - General good health
• Jack - CO2 detector
• TJ - Twinkly Christmas Lights

Join Us:

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News:

• Paige - CSS nesting is supported by all major browsers
• Jack - Streaming components from server actions using the Vercel AI SDK library
• TJ - State of JavaScript 2023 survey

Bonus News:

• The OpenAI debacle (aka Sam Altman’s ousting on Friday and rehiring by Microsoft on Sunday then reinstating at OpenAI by Tuesday)
• Update on the Prettier & Rust saga

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Great British Baking Show series
• Jack - Godzilla Minus One movie
• TJ - Wordle board game

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News:

• Paige - GitHub’s bringing Copilot Chat to github.com
• Jack - Next.js Partial Prerendering feature
• TJ - The $20k bounty for Prettier to be written in Rust 

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix
• Jack - Hiking
• TJ - iPhone 15 usb c power port

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News:

• Paige - Shots.so a full featured device mockup tool
• Jack - Astro 3.5 release
• TJ - The :has selector has landed in Firefox. CSS nesting is now widely supported.
• Jessica - Angular 17 debut

Special Guest:

Jessica Janiuk Senior Software Engineer at Google

• Jessica’s website
• Jessica’s personal GitHub | Jessica’s Google Github
• Jessica’s LinkedIn
• Jessica’s linktree
• New Angular.dev site

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Instant Pot cooker
• Jack - Kinesis Freestyle2 Split-Adjustable keyboard
• TJ - Carrying on special family traditions even as the kids grow up

Jessica - Litter Robot 4 and Petkit Pura Max cat litter boxes

News:

• Paige - Remix announces support for Vite
• Jack - Docusaurus 3.0 
• TJ - v0 update

Bonus news:

• Angular event - https://twitter.com/angular/status/1719025621425369267 
• Stack Overflow is adopting Svelte to enhance their UI - https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/31/why-stack-overflow-is-embracing-svelte/ 

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - F1 Racing on Sky TV
• Jack - The Empire Strips Back
• TJ - Major League Baseball playoff and new rules

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