TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers

News for the week of June 23, 2025: Ecma ratifies ES2025 standard, Vite 7 is mostly deprecations, Oracle gets a free pass, and the experimental type stripping warning is... stripped... from latest Node LTS releases. From the community: 6 advanced TS tricks, a new type-safe WebSockets API, and RegEx tips.

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News for the week of June 16, 2025: Biome v2 features type-aware linting without TSC, Mocha and Jest both get native ESM and TS upgrades, and Grafana Lab's k6 load testing tool... also can now run native TS tests. From the community: type safety for WebGPU shaders, type narrowing map and indexed key access, and resilient import maps.

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News for the week of June 9, 2025: Node's type stripping wrapper is released as a standalone package, VoidZero is building a super fast linter, and pnpm introduces experimental virtual store for speeding up package installs. From the community: secure your TS apps, #ROLP, and updated Exploring JS book edition for 2025.

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News for the week of June 2, 2025: TSC init command gets new, modern defaults, plus new betas drop for Vite 7 and Babel 8. From the community: Learn advanced TS features in 25 mins, and improve the performance of your TS monorepos with secret arcane knowledge.

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Jason Yu (ycmjason.codes) joins us to share an open source tool he created to help teams migrate their legacy TSConfig compiler options to modern-day options painlessly and progressively. Learn about his experience implementing strict options on big teams, how it inspired his new tool, and how you can take advantage of it right now!

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News for the week of May 26, 2025: Angular's 20th release brings DX improvements, Remix replaced by React Router receives reincarnation, and how a lone volunteer brings the much-anticipated Temporal API to Firefox.

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News for the week of May 19, 2025: Try out the new TypeScript Go native port, Zod 4 is out, and no, Deno is not dead.

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News for the week of May 12, 2025: Microsoft layoffs impact TypeScript team, and Deno explains the radio silence on Fresh 2.0.

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In this week's deep dive, we cover everything TypeScript developers need to know about the latest Node 24 release, including examples of each new language feature. We've even put together a code snippet repo you can check out!

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News for the week of May 5, 2025: Node 24 officially brings TS support to the masses, Parcel adds RSC support, and a TC39 proposal gets replaced.

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News for the week of April 28, 2025: Deno 2.3 brings some nice quality-of-life improvements, plus void(0) has released a new all-in-one bundler for your TypeScript libraries.

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Erik shares how you can build games for the web with TypeScript and the Excalibur.js game engine. What's involved? What are some of the primitives you need to learn? What tools are there to make assets? And how do your webdev skills translate? All this and more in today's deep dive episode!

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News for the week of April 21, 2025: TSGo gets autocomplete and JSX support, pnpm adds JSR support, and remember to migrate off Node 18!

In this episode, Erik and Kamran have a candid discussion about how the podcast started, how it went, and what the plans are for the future.

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News for the week of April 14, 2025: TC39 Enums in JS Proposal moves to Stage 1, plus Next.js gets some TS LSP plugin perf/stability improvements.

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This week on the pod, we talk to Dimitri Mitropoulos about building DOOM in the TypeScript type system. We walk through all the nitty gritty and explore this truly amazing engineering feat! We touch on things that Dimitri learned and discovered along the way, and how you might be surprised what you can accomplish by trying! In the news, Zod 4 Beta drops with awesome new features. 

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This week on the pod, we were very busy with travel, cons, and sickness! We have a news grab bag episode talking about the JS enums proposal, Deno v. Oracle, Parcel+RSCs, Firefox vulnerabilities and more!

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00:00 Intro
00:50 VGM Con
02:07 IGDATC Talk Wednesday April 9th
02:41 Toddler Zone
03:28 Exciting Arizona Travels
05:53 (Almost) Missing Flights
07:33 Sponsored by Excalibur.js
08:44 JavaScript Enums Proposal
10:06 Deno v. Oracle

12:55 Parcel 2.14 and React Server Components<...

This week on the pod, we talk all about the Bun runtime funtimes! This is a powerful new player in the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime space focusing on DX, speed, and pushing the state of the art! We dive into the details and offer some of our thoughts around when to use it at the moment. In other news we avoid phone scams and talk fun new TypeScript libraries.

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Personal News

In this episode, we are joined by special guest Josh Goldberg to teach us about getting started with TypeScript from scratch. If you're new to TS, this is a great introduction! And if you've been using TS for a long time, you can explain to your friends where they should start to make their experience smoother. In the news, Nx gets support for project references and we curate some of the best TSGo content.

(00:36) Personal News

The Internet blows up as TypeScript reaches its next Pokemon evolution, and Kamran and Erik scramble to create an episode to pick up the pieces and make sense of it. In other news, TikTok announces Lynx, Angular gets some fetch upgrades, and Josh Goldberg releases v2 of create-typescript-app.

Week of March 3, 2025

This week Kamran dives into some nuances with using React with TypeScript while Erik plays the React fool and coins the word "schbooleans" (yep). In the news, erasableSyntaxOnly gets shipped, some new minor releases in the ecosystem, and oh, TypeScript types can run DOOM. Yes, TS is a real language now.

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Week of February 24, 2025

This week Kamran and Erik discuss when ORMs are helpful... or hurtful. They cover trade-offs, the spectrum of abstraction, the value of escape hatches, and the options available to you in the TypeScript ecosystem.

Week of February 17, 2025

Community Highlights

This week Kamran and Erik unpack JSR, the new open alternative to the npm registry from the folks at Deno. They both published packages and discuss what JSR offers npm doesn't, when to use it, and how it works for both consumers and maintainers.

This week Kamran and Erik try to dissect the complex landscape of JavaScript and TypeScript compilers, transpilers, interpreters, engines, and runtimes (oh my!). What are the tools, what are they used for, why is the world so complicated, and what should you care about as a TS developer?

This week Erik and Kamran talk about Vite (Vight? Veet?), what it's good for, how it works, and its status as the "go-to" tool for frontend tooling.

This week Erik and Kamran make poor dad jokes, talk about Deno, and tour its ecosystem. If you're new to Deno, this will be a great introduction!

In this episode, Kamran and Erik discuss the newly released TypeScript support with Node 23.6 and its implications. What's supported? What's not supported? And how does it differ from Bun or Deno?

In the inaugural episode of TypeScript.fm, the two fools introduce themselves, share their "origin stories," and share plans for the podcast. Briefly covered in the news: Vite 6, Deno 2's expansion of the ecosystem, Node 23's new TypeScript support, and the latest Excalibur.js 0.30.0 release.