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Ankita Kulkarni

2 Free Crash Courses (+ This Week’s Frontend Snacks 🍿)

Published 4 months ago • 2 min read

Hey Reader,

I just wanted to say thank you for an amazing year 🙏 and for all the support. I genuinely wouldn’t get to do this full time without you.

I came close to quitting a couple of times, but your comments and messages kept me going. Every time I heard from you, it reminded me why I started 🙌.

I’d also love to know if I’ve helped you in any way. Just hit reply and let me know or share here. And honestly, this goes for any creator you follow too, a small message like that truly makes their day.

And if there’s anything you want to achieve, you absolutely can. Don’t let doubt or the fear of AI get in the way 💛

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve gone all-in on YouTube, publishing highly practical content to help you build better apps.

Today’s newsletter rounds up the best of it including a complete crash course on Next.js 16.

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And thanks to Clerk for making it happen 🙏.

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How many times have you tried setting up Stripe only to get stuck in wiring web hooks and confusing docs? 🔁

Clerk solves that by combining their top-tier Auth with Organizations and Billing.

Forget writing custom portals. You can now use drop-in components like <OrganizationProfile /> and <PricingTable /> to handle team management, upgrades, and invoices.

Everything is automatically synced to Stripe.

No backend glue code required. You control feature access and plans directly from your Clerk Dashboard 🤯.

And the best part? it’s absolutely free to check it out!

🍿 Simple Tailwind Snack

I know you're ready for the holidays 🎄 so here is a easy snack for ya.

Did you know that instead of writing "h-4 w-4", you can just write "size-4"? It does the exact same dang thing!! I feel a bit silly admitting this, but I only learned it a couple of days ago 😅

🚀 Latest Frontend News

​Is TanStack Start a Next.js Killer? - a Breakdown comparing the two.

Vercel has officially introduced vercel.ts, offering a new way to handle programmatic configuration for your projects with full type safety and environment awareness.

Gemini 3 flash is here, this model is insane! Google will win the AI race imo.

Big updates landed for TanStack AI, which now supports Standard Schema and the new Standard JSON Schema, allowing you to bring your own schema library to your tools.

React developers looking into AI agents should explore the new Generative UI SDK (tambo-ai/tambo) recently shared by Tom Dörr.

​2 More React Security Issues ??? (This is bad)

Dan Abramov just open-sourced a new React Server Components Explorer tool​

You’re Using Shadcn UI the WRONG Way (Here’s How to Fix It)​

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Complete Crash Course on TanStack Start

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Ankita Kulkarni

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