TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers

The two TypeScript Fools, Kamran Ayub and Erik Onarheim, get together weekly to bring you news, community highlights, and deep dives into the TypeScript ecosystem. Stay up-to-date on what's happening and learn new things to make you a better TypeScript developer along the way!

TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 88 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #77

  Astro 7.2, Stacked Pull Requests, and Eradicating any Using oxlint | News | Ep 77

  Aug 13, 20261h 3m

  News for the week of August 3, 2026 : Astro 7.2 adds incremental static builds, SvelteKit 3 preview, and a closer look at TypeScript 7.1 compiler APIs. From the community: build your own "isThingy" type guards, eliminating 'any' types using oxlint, and how it went adding Go's defer keyword to TypeScript. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (06:32) - Tooling: TypeScript 7.1 API Feature Roadmap (11:34) - Metaframeworks: Astro 7.2 Introduces Experimental Incremental Static Builds (12:44) - Metaframeworks: Sweltering Updates in SvelteKit 3 Preview (14:14) - Web: Cloudflare Open Sources an Issue Triage Agent (18:16) - Web: GitHub Now Supports Stacked Pull Requests (22:24) - Library Watch: zodql, Enforce Zod Schemas for GraphQL (24:11) - Library Watch: TanStack Form v2 is in Alpha (26:17) - Library Watch: TanStack Table V9 (28:08) - Library Watch: is-kit Lets You Build Your Own Type Guards (29:23) - Library Watch: typesafe-ts is Like a Toned Down Effect (31:14) - Library Watch: antiox, Rust-like Async Primitives for TypeScript (33:08) - Library Watch: apiful, a Fetch Client You Compose (33:53) - Community: Andrew Healey Adds Go's defer Keyword to TypeScript (36:24) - Community: Mastodon Upgrades to TypeScript 7 (36:57) - Community: Next.js on How They Made Navigations Instant in v0 (39:14) - Community: Mauro Bieg on How to Build a TypeScript Web Framework With No Build Step (39:52) - Community: Sam Rose Found a Bug in Kubernetes Thanks to Webernetes (41:35) - Community: afox.dev Releases Luna.nvim, a Minimal Neovim Theme (42:32) - Community: Silvenon's Oxlint Config to Eradicate any in Your Codebase (43:23) - Bleet of the Week (44:21) - Cool Link: tuicr Lets You View Side-by-Side PR Diffs in Your Terminal (46:12) - Cool Link: Green Building Advisor (48:17) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye News TypeScript: API feature roadmap #4830 - microsoft/typescript-go Astro 7.2 brings incremental static builds What’s new in Svelte: August 2026 Cloudflare: How we built a software factory to drive Astro’s GitHub issue count to zero GitHub: ICYMI, Stacked pull requests Library Watch zodql: Enforce Zod schemas for your GraphQL Plus: https://github.com/enormora/schema-hub Plus: gql.tada TanStack Forms v2: Form v2 is here: All you need to know about the alpha TanStack Table v9: Announcing TanStack Table V9 is-kit: Build isThingy style type guards typesafe-ts (via Allan Duetsch ): Runtime typesafety helpers antiox: Rust like async primitives for Typescript apiful: a fetch client you compose From the Community Andrew Healey: Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler Mastodon: Now written in TS7 Next: Making Navigations Instant in v0 Mauro Bieg: A TypeScript web framework with no build step Sam Rose: Found a bug in kubernetes Luna.nvim: Minimal colorscheme for TS Matija Marohnić: Eradicate as any with oxlint Bleet of the Week Cool Links GitHub - agavra/tuicr: a code review TUI with vim keybindings ("tweaker") Green Building Advisor for all your high-performance building needs Discord: Kamran's backyard studio build thread Music Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi ( Spotify )

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  Episode #76

  TS 7 Compiler API Plans, Elysia 2 Beta, and JSX in ASP.NET Core | News | Ep 76

  Aug 6, 20261h 2m

  News for the week of July 27, 2026 : insights into what's coming in TS 7.1, rendering JSX and TSX natively using ASP.NET Core, and Elysia gets rewritten with the new v2 beta. From the community: semantic versioning spec for types, a typesafe TSConfig builder, and lessons learned migrating ts-loader with AI. Kamran's New Course: React 19 Security and Safety Watch on Pluralsight . Learn how to deal with and protect yourself from real-world threats like XSS, CSRF, and supply chain attacks with full-stack React applications. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (04:53) - Tooling: TypeScript 7.1 Iteration Plan (07:29) - Tooling: TypeScript ESLint Still Needs TS 6 For Now (09:02) - Tooling: Emacs TypeScript LSP Fixed (09:24) - Tooling: JsxCore is a Native JSX/TSX View Engine for ASP.NET Core (12:50) - Tooling: Notion as Code (in TypeScript) (14:31) - Metaframeworks: Nuxt July Security Patches (15:22) - Metaframeworks: Elysia 2 Beta is a Full Rewrite (18:08) - Web: Cloudflare Workers RPC Now Works Across Python and JavaScript (21:00) - Web: Chrome 151 Adds User Media Element (23:56) - Security: Ongoing npm Supply Chain Attack for keyv and cacheable Scopes (25:56) - Security: Node July Security Releases (26:24) - Library Watch: semver-ts, a Spec for Versioning Types (28:03) - Library Watch: JS2WASM Compiler is in the Experimental Phase (30:40) - Library Watch: PeurTS, Write TS in Unity, Unreal, and .NET (32:03) - Library Watch: dynwinrt, Mess with WinRT APIs in TypeScript (34:16) - Library Watch: syt, Type-safe TSConfig Builder (35:09) - Library Watch: rm-pushnotify, Cross-browser Push Notifications (37:05) - Library Watch: mazely, a Maze Editor and Solver in TypeScript (38:05) - Library Watch: inclusive-color, a Color Space for Human Skin Colors (39:00) - Community: Are the Types Wrong? (39:58) - Community: John Reilly Migrated ts-loader to TypeScript 7 (41:16) - Community: Jake Worth Shares Daily TypeScript Notes in Your Inbox (42:13) - Community: Tabularis Ported Their Visual EXPLAIN Rust Parsers to TypeScript (43:14) - Community: Jake Archibald Wants Us to Learn From His Tool Tip Accessibility Mistake (44:57) - Community: Debugging TypeScript Applications Book by Andrey Ozornin (45:50) - Community: David Sherret Made TS AST Viewer Support TS 7 (46:42) - Bleet of the Week (48:48) - Cool Link: Reliability Lessons from SQLite by Richard Hip (51:24) - Cool Link: Why I Delete My Tests Every Night by KCD (52:02) - Cool Link: Nirvanna the Band the Show (54:23) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye News TypeScript: 7.1 iteration plan PSA TS 6/7 - typescript-eslint and others that depend on compiler apis emacs LSP fixed JsxCore: Native JSX + Preact/React support for ASP.NET Core MVC Notion: In beta, Notion as code Nuxt: Nuxt Security Patch Releases Elysia: Elysia 2 beta - DayDream Cloudflare: Workers RPC now works across Python and JavaScript Chrome: New in Chrome 151 Socket: Popular npm Packages in the keyv and Cacheable Namespaces Compromised in Active Supply Chain Attack Node: July Security Releases Library Watch semver-ts: Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types JS2: JS to WASM AOT Compiler Puerts: TS in Unreal Engine or Unity in TS!?! dynwinrt: Mess with WinRT APIs using TS syt: a typesafe builder for tsconfigs (via domutala ) rm-pushnotify : Browser push notifications library Mazely: Maze editor and generation in TS Inclusive Color: Inclusive human skin color space From the Community Are The Types Wrong : Tool for checking declaration files John Reilly: Migrating ts-loader to TypeScript 7.1 with AI Jake Worth: TypeNotes – Daily learning notes for TS and JS developers Tabularis: Visual EXPLAIN beyond the app: one engine, multiple hosts (c/w LLM-assisted) Jake Archibald: Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake Andrey Ozornin: Debugging TypeScript Applications: Build Web Apps That Don't Break David Sheeret: TS Ast viewer supports 7 Bleet of the Week Cool Links Take some lessons from Reliability Lessons From SQLite - Richard Hipp | SSW 2026 You should watch Nirvana the Band the Show Stop Being Tricked by theprimeagen

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  Episode #75

  Type-aware Linting Stable in oxlint, Qwik v2 Beta, and Octane Turns Up the Heat on React | News | Ep 75

  Jul 30, 202653 min

  News for the week of July 20, 2026 : Oxlint type-aware linting is now stable, Qwik v2 is now in beta, and the successor to Inferno is lighting up React. From the community: must-watch talks from Software Should Work conference, why Node.js can't harden against prototype pollution, and practical TypeScript tips learned while building a Trello clone. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (03:45) - Tooling: WebStorm Adds TypeScript 7 to the IDE (04:34) - Tooling: TypeScript 7.1 Compiler API is in Progress (05:32) - Tooling: Type-aware Linting is Now Stable in oxlint (08:24) - Tooling: New Buz Runtime is a Bun Port in Modern Zig (10:48) - Tooling: TypeScript 7 is Getting Some Perf Improvements (11:23) - Metaframeworks: Solid.js Getting a Rewrite in Rust? (12:53) - Metaframeworks: Qwik v2 Beta is Official (15:16) - Metaframeworks: Next.js July Security Release is Available (17:13) - Web: TypeScript AI Conference Videos Are Up (18:05) - Web: A Bunch of TC39 Proposals Advance (20:27) - Web: Octane, Successor to Inferno is a New React Alternative (23:46) - Web: Firefox 153 with Quality of Life Updates (26:22) - Security: Malicious Corepack Site Was Tricking People Into Downloading Malware (28:32) - Security: Wordpress Exploit is Pretty Darn Bad (29:49) - Security: White House Launches Gold Eagle Initiative (30:54) - Library Watch: scriptc, Compiles TypeScript to Native Binaries (33:50) - Library Watch: API Extractor Helps You Build Better TS Library Packages (35:35) - Library Watch: knip Keeps Knipping Its Own Performance (35:52) - Library Watch: TanStack Markdown and Highlight (36:48) - Library Watch: webpack 105.9 Ships Zero-config Bundling (39:39) - Community: Jim's TrueType QR Code Font (40:11) - Community: Software Should Work Conference Videos Are Up (41:18) - Community: MochaJS is Sponsoring Other Open Source Projects (41:43) - Community: Effect Miami 2 Talks Are Up (42:05) - Community: Antony Jones Shares Practical TypeScript Benefits, Pitfalls, and Patterns That Paid Off (43:09) - Community: Jon Sagara Upgrades Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild to v7 (43:57) - Community: Rachel Johnson Will Teach You To Build Express APIs in TypeScript (44:21) - Community: Matteo Collina Says No, We Can't Harden Node.js Against Prototype Pollution (45:43) - Community: Matia Makes the Web Fun Again with Pretext (47:43) - Cool Link: I Tried Coding My Own Graphics Library (48:37) - Cool Link: nitter.net Lets You Follow People on X or Get RSS Feeds (49:36) - The Minnesota Short Goodnight News Developer Tooling TypeScript 7 in JetBrains WebStorm TypeScript v7.1 is cooking Oxlint: Type-Aware Linting Stable Buz: A drop-in replacement for Bun using modern Zig Metaframeworks SolidJS rewritten in Rust? Qwik v2 Beta is official Next.js: July 2026 Security Release Web TypeScript AI: The only conference for TypeScript AI developers More ECMAScript Proposals Advanced Octane announced, successor to Inferno (React, compiled) Browsers Firefox 153: See All New Features, Updates and Fixes Security Socket: Beware of fake Corepack site (since taken down) Wordpress: Wordpress Exploit is Absolutely Beautiful Socket: White House Launches Gold Eagle Initiative to Manage Surge in AI-Discovered Vulnerabilities Library Watch Scriptc: https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc API Extractor : Validate and track breaking changes on output typings Knip is k-nipping perf Introducing TanStack Markdown and TanStack Highlight Webpack 5.109 : Zero-config bundling for new projects From the Community Jim: TrueType QR code font Software Should Work conference Andrew Kelly’s Talk Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026 Alexis King The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Constructive Data Modeling - Alexis King | SSW 2026 Fil-C Real Memory Safety Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out! - Filip Pizlo | SSW 2026 Joshua Goldberg: Mocha is donating to other projects : Knip, @nodejs.org, Prettier, and Unified Effect: Effect Miami 2 videos landed Antony Jones: TypeScript in Practice: Benefits, Pitfalls and Patterns That Paid Off Jon Sagara: Upgrading Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild to v7.0.0 Rachel Johnson: FreeCodeCamp: Build Bullet-Proof APIs in Express w/ TS Matteo Collina:

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  Episode #74

  Announcing TypeScript 7, Bun 1.4 is in Rust, and Vite+ Beta | News | Ep 74

  Jul 21, 20261h 16m

  News for the first half of July, 2026 : TypeScript 7 is now generally available, Bun's Rust port will be official in v1.4, plus Nuxt 4.5, and Astro 7.1 updates. From the community: Tangled is the new hotness, a tool that can refactor TypeScript, and a modern CSS theming guide. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (09:12) - Tools: TypeScript 7 is Now Stable and Available (13:06) - Tools: Vite+ is Now in Beta (15:17) - Tools: Vite 8.1 Brings Experimental Bundle Dev Mode (17:40) - Tools: Nx 23 Supports Angular 22 and TypeScript 6 (18:25) - Runtimes: Bun is Ported to Rust from Zig (25:22) - Runtimes: Node 26.5.0 Brings Experimental Import Text Support (25:40) - Runtimes: Deno 2.9.2 Speeds Up Across the Board (26:39) - Metaframeworks: Nuxt 4.5 Ships Major Upgrades to Build Layer (27:46) - Metaframeworks: Astro 7.1 Lets You Run Multiple Dev Servers at Once (28:57) - Metaframeworks: Next.js Formalizes Security Release Schedule (29:52) - Browsers: Chrome 150 Brings Declarative Updates (30:51) - AI: New Kimi K3 Open Weight Model Tops the Coding Leaderboards (31:51) - AI: 1Password Can Let Agents Securely Use Credentials (34:21) - Security: More npm Packages Compromised in Ongoing Supply Chain Attacks (34:44) - Security: npm 12 Ships with Install Scripts Off by Default (37:11) - Library Watch: Zenolith Rendering Engine (38:30) - Library Watch: Box3D for 3D Physics Simulations (39:18) - Library Watch: Porffor is Now Self-Hosted, Faster, and More Efficient (40:56) - Library Watch: Updated WebGPU Types for TS 6 and 7 (41:35) - Library Watch: rslint 0.7 is TS-first, ESLint-compatible, and 30% Faster (42:16) - Library Watch: magic-string Reaches 1.0 (43:26) - Library Watch: Effect V4 Beta (44:02) - Community: Daniel Roe's SyncHub Helps You Mirror GH Repos to Tangled (47:21) - Community: Jared Forsyth's Dosido Helps You Refactor TypeScript (48:37) - Community: Una Kravetz Teaches You How to Do Modern CSS Theming (49:54) - Community: Jake Archibald's Journey Customizing Select Heights (51:38) - Community: Visualize Data Structures and Algorithms Step-by-Step (53:28) - Community: Joss Mackison Has TypeScript Opinions (54:35) - Community: Jessica Wachtel Dives Deep Into Understanding WebAssembly (55:02) - Community: James Randall Recreated the BBC Micro Game 'Exile' in TypeScript (55:55) - Community: Berlin TypeScript Meetup (56:10) - Bleets of the Week (57:46) - Cool Link: Email Verification API in Chrome Origin Trial (01:01:29) - Cool Link: Coding ASMR Videos (01:03:18) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye News Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Announcing Vite+ Beta Vite 8.1 is out! Nx 23.1 Is Here: Per-Run Performance Reports, TypeScript 6, and Angular 22 Rewriting Bun in Rust Node 26.5.0 : Experimental text imports Deno 2.9.2 perf wins Nuxt 4.5 Astro 7.1 Next.js Security Release and Our Next Patch Release Chrome 150: Post by @tunetheweb.com — Bluesky Kimi K3 tops Arena's coding leaderboard — and it's open-weight 1Password's new browser integration for Claude changes how AI uses your credentials jscrambler npm Package Compromised in Supply Chain Attack npm v12 Ships With Install Scripts Off by Default, Begins Deprecating 2FA-Bypass Tokens Library Watch Zenolith a renderer engine : r/typescript Box3D!!? @erincatto.bsky.social on Bluesky Porffor is now self-hosted TypeScript WebGPU types Rslint 0.7 : TypeScript-first, ESLint-compatible, and 30% faster than v0.6 magic-string 1.0 Effect v4 beta From the Community Daniel Roe: Built synchub.io to mirror GH to Tangled Jared Forsyth: Automate typescript refactors with dosido Una Kravets: Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries Jake Archibald: The Goldilocks customizable select height nyaomaru: I Built a Tool to Visualize Data Structures and Algorithms Joss Mackison: TypeScript with Opinions Jessica Wachtel: WebAssembly is everywhere. Here's how it works James Randall: BBC Micro 'Exile' recreation in TS Prisma: TS Berlin meetup, July 31 Bleet of the Week Bonus Bleet of the Week Cool Links

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  Episode #73

  TypeScript, Agents, and What Skills Will Matter Tomorrow | Kent C Dodds | Ep 73B

  Jul 2, 202658 min

  In this episode, we interview Kent. C Dodds, a prolific developer educator and TypeScript fan, to talk about his new courses and where he sees the future of software development going. Should you still learn to code in 2026? What skills will still be valuable 5 or 10 years from now? And how is he using agents day-to-day in his own work? Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy Chapters (00:00) - Meet Kent C. Dodds, Developer Educator (04:44) - Should You Still Bother to Learn TypeScript in 2026? (08:21) - Everyone Has Knowledge Gaps No Matter Your Experience (10:42) - The Role of Agents in Software Development (15:34) - AI Lowers the Barrier of Entry But It Doesn't Raise Your Ceiling (17:36) - What Skills Will Become More Valuable in the Future? (25:59) - How Agents Are Taking Lower-Value Work (30:35) - Where Does TypeScript Fit in This Future? (34:02) - Practical TypeScript Foundations for Fluency (39:07) - Interactive and Cohort-based Learning (41:27) - From Zero to Hero with TypeScript (46:09) - How Kent Integrates AI-assisted Learning (48:30) - Kent's Tips on Working with Coding Agents (55:28) - Where to Find Kent Online Kent's Links Practical TypeScript: Foundations for Fluency EpicWeb.dev Epic AI Call Kent Podcast Music Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi ( Spotify )

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