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%. Listeners may wonder why Shopify continues to develop both Hydrogen and Remix, and the general thought is that Hydrogen is targeted specifically to bigger ecommerce companies that need modern routing, data fetching, SSR, and easy to work with Shopify APIs.Node.js also released its latest version this month, and we’ve already reached v22. Amongst the improvements this version boasts, the most exciting one is probably the support for ESM through an experimental flag,which will eventually become the default. Long live ESM.In a surprising reversal of course, Vercel announced it’s reverting all edge rendering back to Node.js. Vercel first acknowledges it had too many different “Edge” products, which made it hard for developers to keep straight, but then also it became apparent that even when running a site itself “on the edge”, if the site needed to access a database, it most likely had to go back to a region farther away to fetch the data. Turns out, using Vercel’s original Node.js runtime resulted in faster startups, cheaper costs, and better security than edge functions. Who knew?? Today’s episode winds down with a few extra interesting bits of news: the FTC has announced a new rule to ban non compete agreements in the US, and a new feature from the popular React component collection shadcn called “Lift Mode”. “Lift Mode” essentially lets users pick and choose what code to copy from one of shadcn’s “blocks” (pre-made collections of components) for use in their own project. Pretty cool!News:Paige - Shopify’s Hydrogen gets Remix(ed)Jack - Vercel moves away from Edge computingTJ - Node.js 22Bonus News:Lift Mode in shadcnFTC announced a new rule that bans noncompete agreementsWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Shogun TV miniseriesJack - 3 in 1 charging stand for Apple iPhone, watch, and AirPodsTJ - Interview with a Senior JS Dev on YTThanks 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 Tweet us on X @front_end_fire.Front-end Fire websiteBlue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fire

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