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AI Model Runner ONNX and JS Framework Maker Vinxi w/Returning Guest Jason Lengstorf

🍽️ From AI models to fine dining, Jason Lengstorf joins us again to chat about web dev, new React framework react-server, how to build your own JS framework with Vinxi, and even some favorite restaurants. Tune in for tech insights and tasty recs! 🎧

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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. It leads to a more general discussion around vector databases, offline approaches to LLMs to protect user privacy, and how Jack will be giving a talk on this very topic at the upcoming Chain React Conf in Portland. 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. Favorite linting tool, ESLint, has also shared a post outlining its future plans. Think: a core rewrite which will include a new npm package, ESM support, a composable API, a new CLI, and more. No dates have been set yet, but the team’s got an ambitious project ahead of them. 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. It’s a refreshingly simple way to get started with a React project that uses RSCs without using Next.js, and definitely worth a look for those smaller side projects devs like to spin up. Finally, Jason shares his experience with full stack JavaScript SDK Vinxi, which makes it easy for devs to build JavaScript apps and even frameworks. It’s powered by Vite, Nitro, and Rollup, and provides a collection of primitives that allow users to compose their own full stack apps and frameworks be they static sites, SPAs, APIs, or SSR-driven. The sky’s the limit, and while documentation on the site is still a little slim, it shows lots of potential and a small shallow learning curve.

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