News: TanStack Start, Safari 18 Updates, and Astro 5.0 Highlights

Tanner Linsley, creator of TanStack Query and TanStack Router, continues expanding the Tanner-verse with a new TanStack Start framework. It’s a full-stack React framework powered by TanStack Router, Vinxi, and Vite, and boasts all the mainstays of a JavaScript framework today, including SSR, streaming, server function support, RPCs, and more. 

With the release of the new Apple operating system, iOS 18, comes new updates to the Safari browser and its WebKit rendering engine. A couple notable highlights for Safari 18 are “distraction control” where users can hide distracting items on web pages like sign-in banners, cookie preference popups, and newsletter signup overlays, and iPhone mirroring and remote inspection.

And the Astro team is at it again with the release of Astro 5.0 beta. This new release introduces the Astro Content Layer, a flexible, extensible way to interact with content in Astro, no matter where it comes from. 

And for the Fire Starters section of the show this week we learn more about the writingsuggestions attribute. 

News:

• Paige - TanStack Start
• Jack - Astro 5.0 Beta Release
• TJ - WebKit Features in Safari 18.0

Bonus News:

• Next.js SaaS starter

Fire Starters:

• writingsuggestions attribute

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Bad Monkey show and Carl Hiaasen books in general
• Jack - iOS 18 and Sony Alpha 7C II - Full-frame interchangeable Lens Hybrid Camera
• TJ - Bookshelves 

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