Daily.dev Weekly: Toast Libraries, Vue Skills, Query Patterns, AI & Open Source, and the Future of Agent Tools

Goey-Toast: Morphing Blob Toast Notifications

TLDR: Goey-toast is a React library that brings delight to notifications through organic blob animations, built on framer-motion, with promise tracking and full customization capabilities out of the box.

Link: goey-toast

Vue Ecosystem Skills: AI Agent Knowledge for Bleeding-Edge Vue

TLDR: Vue-ecosystem-skills provides AI agent skills built from actual Vue documentation, GitHub issues, and recent releases, solving the critical problem of AI coding assistants lacking current knowledge about latest Vue API changes.

Link: harlan-zw/vue-ecosystem-skills

Creating Query Abstractions: Beyond Custom Hooks

TLDR: Custom hooks wrapping TanStack Query break TypeScript type inference and limit flexibility, while the queryOptions API provides a cleaner abstraction pattern that preserves type safety and works across contexts.

Link: Creating Query Abstractions

Will AI Kill Open Source?

TLDR: An opinion piece arguing that AI won't kill open source because established libraries provide verified, stable building blocks that AI systems should leverage rather than replace, and AI benefits from well-defined specifications and test suites.

Link: Will AI Kill Open Source?

The Shift from MCPs to Agent Skills: Why Nx Deleted Most of Their MCP Tools

TLDR: Nx moved from Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools to AI agent skills after recognizing that modern agentic workflows make context-dumping MCPs token-inefficient, as agents can now execute CLI commands directly and process outputs themselves.

Link: Trend is to move over to skills over MCPs