Leonardo Montini
@Balastrong
🇮🇹 Frontend Developer - GitHub Star ⭐️ - Microsoft MVP - Open Source Enthusiast 🧑💻 - Dev Content: http://youtube.com/@DevLeonardo - Cat lover 😼
A shiny announcement: I’ve been officially awarded as a @github Star! ⭐️ Thank you to everyone who is being part of this journey! Today more than ever I’m so energised to keep pursuing my goal of inspiring people and introducing them to the Open Source world Thank you ❤️

Fun times playing with MCP. Same server, three different behaviours on each client. On vscode everything works, on Kiro the public tools are fine but I get an error when auth comes in, on claude it doesn't even connect to the server 😅

Setting up an MCP Server on a TanStack Start endpoint was... easier than expected! 👀 I started without any extra library, then connected drizzle and better-auth to get personalized answers and I deployed on netlify. A quick demo 👇 youtu.be/pIo3wanUrgI
I just set up a simple MCP server with TanStack Start, hosted on Netlify aaaand... protected with better-auth! Should I make a video about it? :D The code is still a mess but should look good after I clean it up a bit
I automated a boring workflow with Copilot Instructions (reusable prompts) and Agent mode that fetches some web pages finding the relevant data. Next step? Make it an MCP server to reduce manual work even more youtu.be/kpqcrNaDoyg
For the first time I unironically used document.designMode = "on" to validate a bug (overflowing text) and it feels so good 😂
I underestimated how many people keep browser tabs open forever
I kinda hate this feeling I'm watching a video about AI and thinking "wait, this is two months old... is it still relevant?"
I asked ChatGPT a brainstorming question and enabled search mode: it answered mostly using one of my old articles as reference. I'm torn: should I be proud of it or frustrated as I wanted different answers from what I already knew? 😅
We just merged "devinxi" to main. TanStack Start is now just a Vite plugin - and that unlocks a ton of cool new stuff. If you were not yet on the alpha version, please follow the migration guide linked in the release notes github.com/TanStack/route…
Note to self: stop studying different tools just for fun and begin implementing features. Until then... here's one more integration with TanStack Start to handle your database and authentication 👇 youtu.be/o1l_jL_g9tw
I added a badge to display the TanStack Start version and keep it up to date automatically for starters in the awesome list Feel free to add yours with a PR! github.com/Balastrong/awe…

Here is the webinar I will be holding on May 29th. Don't miss it. 🧑💻 How to Revitalize AngularJS with React 📆 Thursday, May 29, 2025 🕐 12:00 - 13:00 CEST 🌍 Online webinar academy.claranet.it/pages/how-to-r…
Whiskers replacement in progress 🚧 Glad @github also packs a couple extra pairs just in case 😸


🚨 Big news! We’ve been collaborating with the legendary @tannerlinsley and the TanStack team to build something new: TanStack DB — a reactive, normalized, transactional state engine that extends TanStack Query.
The TanStack Start series continues with this spotlight on the Middleware primitive, a simple way to run code before/after server functions, taking care of authentication, logging and more
One of TanStack's greatest maintainers, @seancassiere, is looking for his next big engineering role. Let's find it for him! A true 💯 with autonomy, architecture, throughput, teamwork, etc. He always delivers. DM him for offers! Use TanStack? You use his code. Repost this.
Just launched/updated a bunch of new @Tan_Stack shirts/sweatshirts/hoodies/etc! 🧵⬇️ All merch is zero-profit at cost of @cottonbureau and IMO, very high quality. Enjoy!
I just shared this video on YouTube and I imagine someone who doesn't like to write types being told to also write tests on those types 😂
Do you test your Typescript types? It's not only a thing for library code, but if you're writing library code you better also test your types! Here a few examples on how we ensure TanStack Form's typesafety doesn't break too often