Friend of the podcast (and previous guest host), Jason Lengstorf, joins Jack and Paige today to talk about the latest happenings in the web dev world - and wax poetic at the end about favorite restaurants and fine dining.

First up, is AI model runner ONNX, which Jack’s been digging into recently. ONNX offers many pre-trained models which can run locally or in the browser and integrates well with many different programming languages.

After that is new Lodash library competitor es-toolkit. It’s smaller, faster, relies heavily on native browser APIs, and wants to supplant Lodash for all those useful helper functions so many JS apps still rely heavily on.

Then there’s a new React project framework named react-server that claims to be the easiest way to build React apps with server-side rendering.

Finally, Jason shares his experience with full stack JavaScript SDK Vinxi, which makes it easy for devs to build JavaScript apps and even frameworks.

News:

• Paige - es-toolkit and what’s next for ESLint 
• Jack - ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) AI model runner and React Server
• Jason - Vinxi · Dev Agrawal on LWJ teaching Vinxi · Nikhil on Vinxi at ViteConf

Special Guest:

Jason Lengstorf, host of Learn with Jason and developer-focused media consultant.

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• Jason’s YouTube channel
• Learn with Jason site
• Jason’s link tree (jason.energy/links)

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Bear TV series
• Jack - Inside Out 2 movie
• Jason - Chef movie and The Chef Show

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