Shopify's React Native Leap, AI Dev Agents & UI Framework Showdowns

Join us on Tech Tuesdays (WebDev) as we journey through the ever-evolving landscape of web development. This week, we dive into Shopify's impressive migration of its largest apps to React Native's New Architecture, a move that kept millions of merchants online while embracing modern mobile development. We'll also explore how React Fast Refresh is revolutionising hot reloading, preserving application state for a smoother developer experience.

Our conversation then shifts to next-gen tools and frameworks. Discover TanStack DB, designed to enhance TanStack Query with features like live queries and transactional mutations for real-time data synchronisation. We'll also compare development philosophies, looking at a developer's newfound preference for Solid.js over React, praising its efficient reactivity model and alignment with web standards. Plus, get a glimpse of Ripple, a TypeScript UI framework aiming to combine the best of React, Solid, and Svelte.

Beyond frameworks, we explore cutting-edge developer utilities. Learn about Term.everything, a Linux CLI that remarkably runs GUI applications within your terminal, and Haystack Editor, a GitHub app streamlining code reviews with logical change views. We also reflect on the historical journey of merge queues, now a crucial part of maintaining stable main branches in software engineering.

Finally, we consider the future with AI in development, from Alibaba's powerful Qwen3-Coder, an "agentic CLI" handling complex coding tasks, to DoorDash's AI models that automate restaurant menu transcription. We'll even ponder the implications of relying too heavily on external tools versus critical thinking and the surprising truth behind JavaScript timer throttling in browsers.

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