TraeAI Enters the IDE Wars, CRA’s Successor, and Bolt.new + Expo

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The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, has just released TraeAI, the newest entrant to the AI-enhanced IDE wars. Trae is also a fork of the VS Code IDE and offers many of the same AI features of competitors Windsurf and Cursor: chats, autocomplete, etc.

Recently we reported the React team agreed to deprecate starter React repo Create React App due to changes in React 19 breaking the project. Well, our very own Jack Herrington collaborated with the TanStack team to create a drop-in replacement called create-tsrouter-app that builds TanStack Router based SPA applications to give folks who previously used CRA a better option in today’s world.

Bolt.new, the browser-based AI agent continues to make news announcing a new integration with native app development framework Expo. Now, users can describe to Bolt what sort of mobile app they want in natural language, preview the code in real time on any platform, and refine their vision by chatting with the agent, and finally deploying it to the app store.

News:

• Paige - Bolt.new & Expo integrate to build mobile apps with AI
• Jack - Jack’s very own Create React App replacement: create-tsrouter-app
• TJ - TraeAI

Bonus News:

• Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter
• ESLint supports CSS linting

Fire Starters:

• CSS text-box-trim

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Drop Stop car seat gap filler
• Jack - 3D printing
• TJ - Onyx Storm

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