News for the week of November 10, 2025: Node 25 marks type stripping as stable, the downlow on some new Rust-based JavaScript and TypeScript engines, and a new browser for keyboard lovers. From the community: visualize how types work, using .NET Aspire without .NET, type-safe SQL, and an experimental Rust-based type checker.

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and more.

• 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

News

• TS 6.0 Expected in Early 2026
• Node 25.2.0 (Current) marks type stripping as stable!
• Andromeda, a native TypeScript runtime alternative to Deno (h/t Rob Palmer)
• Brimstone, a JavaScript engine written from scratch in Rust
• Glide, a Firefox-based browser for neovim dandies

From the Community

• Kit Langton: Visual Types — A Set of Animated TypeScript Concepts (h/t Reddit)
• David Gardiner: Aspire with Python, React, Rust and Node apps
• Rob Palmer: Alternative names for ECMAScript that were originally considered
• Library Watch: squeeel, a type-safe SQL builder
• Library Watch: DomoActors-TS, a TypeScript library for the actor model
• Library Watch: Contour 2.0 “Music Composition as Code” (h/t kootenay-eric)
• Library Watch: Hashery (h/t jaredwray.com)
• Tool Watch: Ezno, a Rust TypeScript type checker (h/t fasterthanli.me)

Cool Links

• Cool Watch: PolyMatt on YouTube makes a floppy disk from scratch
• Cool Tool: Quicker.nvim, a better quickfix list
• Cool Tool: gemshell, a tool to package up web games
• Cool Tool: Debug your Docker build context
• Cool Read: Building an MCP Server for Nuxt
• Cool Tool: WXT – a modern web extensions framework
• Cool App: xelly.games  - a game-sharing social network

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

Daniel Rosenwasser and Jake Bailey join the two fools to talk about what's coming soon in TypeScript 6 and 7. What changes should developers expect? What might the new compiler API look like? How is the Go port progressing? We talk about smarter (and stricter) defaults, ES targets, module resolution, and why it's hard to emulate JavaScript floating point semantics in Go.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Introducing Daniel and Jake

Resources

• TypeScript Homepage
• TypeScript Native Go Port

Where to Follow the Team

• Jake on BlueSky
• Daniel on BlueSky

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and more.

• Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
• Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
• Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

News for the week of November 3, 2025: Node 24 promoted to LTS, Nuxt Image V2 is full of TS goodies, and Anders is humbled by TypeScript's rise. From the community: TypeScript is not a substitute for good engineering, why codemods are helpful, and examples of using the satisfies keyword.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• Housekeeping: Follow and subscribe to TypeScript.fm on YouTube/Music!
• Node.js PSA: 24.x Release Line is now the Active LTS
• GitHub: TypeScript’s rise in the AI era: Insights from Lead Architect, Anders Hejlsberg
• Nuxt Image v2 is full of TypeScript goodies
• PSA: Flaw in React Native CLI opens dev servers to attacks

From the Community

• Codecademy: TypeScript is the Most-Used Language on GitHub — Here’s Why
• Christian Ekrem: Why TypeScript Won't Save You
• David A. Lee: What do flash floods and Typescript have in common?
• Node.js: What is Userland Migrations?
• Marc Dahmen: Building Sortable Tree — A Lightweight Drag & Drop Tree in Vanilla TypeScript
• Marco Ippolito: Type Stripping is Going to Be Unflagged Soon!
• Marek Honzal: Immutable by Default: Practical TypeScript Patterns
• Snap: Valdi, a TypeScript-based cross-platform UI framework
• Library Watch: Izumi Chibi, a port of Scala's DIStage phased dependency injection
• Library Watch: Tokiforge, a modern framework-agnostic design token and theming engine
• Library Watch: Mastro.{js,ts}, the simplest web framework and site generator

Cool Links

• Erik's Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe
• Syntax.fm CSS battles
• The Hive: Building a beehive simulation desk
• This Week in Svelte, Ep. 121 — Changelog, Svelte MCP Server

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and more.

• Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
• Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
• Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

News for the week of October 27, 2025: TypeScript is the #1 language on GitHub, making your Regex type-safe, and Biome adds support for three new metaframeworks. From the community: a metaframework for Angular, PHP in JS, and a polyglot runtime that will blow your mind.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• Octoverse: TypeScript is the most used language on GitHub 🎉
• Bun: Vercel now supports the Bun Runtime 
• ArkType: Introducing ArkRegex (Reddit, Discord, Bluesky)
• Aikaido: Introducing Safe Chain: Stopping Malicious npm Packages Before They Wreck Your Project
• Biome 2.3 supports Vue, Svelte, Astro, and more. 
• VoidZero: What’s New in ViteLand: October 2025 Recap

From the Community

• Friend of the Show Josh Goldberg is looking for a full time position 👀
• AnalogJS 2.0 is a metaframework for Angular with SSR/SSG and file-based routing
• Alexander Lichter: Wait - PHP IN JS!? What is rendu
• Elide is a polyglot runtime, think: import Python modules from TypeScript
• Tool Watch: acrazing/dpdm: Detect circular dependencies in your TypeScript projects
• Library Watch: gorango/flowcraft: A lightweight workflow engine 
• Tool Watch: Trigger.dev, a hosted agentic workflow engine
• Fabi.dev quick tip: Do you know the difference between || and ??
• muszynov: How to use the infer keyword in Typescript

Cool Links

• Cool Watch: 10 useful CLI apps I'm guessing you've not heard of
• Cool Watch: Oliver Medhurst - Porffor - JavaScript Ahead of Time Compiler 
• Cool Watch: Ladybird browser update (October 2025) 
• Cool Tool: Gimli Tailwind – a super hot looking TailwindCSS dev extension
• Cool Tool: PowerSync – local-first sync engine that works with Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and more.

• Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
• Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
• Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

News for the week of October 20, 2025: Deno Deploy revamp, Vitest 4, Nuxt 4.2, and Next.js 16, all in a single week. From the community: 4 weird ways to cast in TypeScript (+2 to Arcana rolls), type-safe API clients, and the hottest JS REPL around.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• Deno: My highlights from the new Deno Deploy
• Vitest 4.0 is out!
• Nuxt 4.2 is out!
• Next.js 16 is out!
• React Native 0.82 - A New Era (h/t TheNewStack)
• Node 22.21 LTS features native HTTP proxy support
• AshTypeScript 0.6.0 (bsky summary)
• A heroic update to DefinitelyTyped to prepare for TypeScript 6
• PSA: Critical Account Takeover in better-auth

From the Community

• Jake Archibald: PSA, don’t use top-level await right now in browsers
• Brian Muenzenmeyer: You Don’t Need a Dependency talk from JSConf is now live
• Brian Vaughn: react-window got a small TS compatibility fix for React 18-18.2
• Wolf Girl: 4 Unconventional Ways to Cast In TypeScript
• Matteo Collina: From curl Commands to Type-Safe API Clients: A Complete Workflow 
• Shola Jegede: How to Build a To-Do List MCP Server Using TypeScript – with Auth, Database, and Billing 
• Ge Gao: JS REPL with Types! (h/t Reddit)
• Moosestack (FiveOneFour): Just OLAP It: Transform Your OLTP ORM into a Type-Safe OLAP Data Model
• Library Watch: FTA Fast TypeScript Analyzer
• Bleet of the Week: “Anyone who writes bare JavaScript in 2025… is a maniac you shouldn’t trust”

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and more.

• Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
• Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
• Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

News of the week of October 13, 2025: Node 25 brings V8 perf update, Remix reinvents itself once again, TypeScript in your DB, and why Map upsertions will be celebrated by TS devs. From the community: 15 npm packages you no longer need, Deno's side projects, Snoop L. O. Double G., and how to write architecture assertions.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• Happy National AWS Outage Day!
• Remix: Remix Jam 2025 (4 hours) announced V3, built on Preact (3min and 20min summaries, plus reddit discussion)
• SpacetimeDB 1.6 adds beta support for TS modules
• Node 25 is out (bsky summary by Rafael)
• Lit joins Open JS Foundation
• VoidZero: New blog post with details around Vite+
• ECMAScript News: Map Upsert proposal heralded by TS devs (h/t Rob Palmer)  
• ECMAScript News: Import bytes lands in ESBuild (+ Deno, Bun, and webpack) (h/t Rob Palmer)

From the Community

• NodeSource: 15 Recent Node.js Features that Replace Popular npm Packages
• Deno: Deno's Other Open Source Projects
• Library Watch: SnoopLogg v6.0.4, a CLI logging library
• Library Watch: LukasNiessen/ArchUnitTS, an architecture testing library
• Evan You: oxfmt is 2-3X faster than Biome and 45X faster than Prettier
• Reddit: What Happened to Nx? and an alternative hidden gem, Moonrepo
• TypedRocks: This New TypeScript Utility Type Prevents Hard-To-Find Bugs!
• WebDevSimplified: Will I Survive These Advanced TypeScript Challenges?

Cool Stuff

• Cool Watch: Alexander Lichter on Rolldown: How Vite bundles at the speed of Rust
• Cool Watch: Beyond Signals by Ryan Carniato (Solid.js creator)
• Cool Tip: Stefan reminds us that AbortController is a thing
• Cool Product: SunStyle solar shingles actually look nice

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, tile maps, particles, and more.

• Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
• Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
• Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

News of the week of October 6, 2025: Highlights from ReactConf 2025, Bun 1.3's (delicious) security lede got buried, and how to buy lifetime access to someone's webcam for $500. From the community: CSS is cool again, Immer.js perf improvements, and why typed linting is blocked by ESLint core.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• ReactConf: React 19.2 dropped
• ReactConf: React Compiler 1.0 dropped (reminded Erik of this old ditty)
• ReactConf: React Foundation
• Bun 1.3 
• VS 2026 has TS 7 preview
• TC39: Module Declarations 
• TC39: Defer Import Eval advances to stage 3 
• Vite+ unifies enterprise JS tooling
• PSA: Stealit Malware Abuses Node.js Single Executable Feature via Game and VPN Installers

From the Community

• Dr. Axel: CSS: Learn the essentials quickly
• Josh Goldberg: Why typed linting optimization blocked by ESLint core 
• Library Watch: Immer.js perf improvements on the horizon
• Blog Post: Stopping Bad Actors: Inside 1Password’s Security Model 

Cool Stuff

• Cool Product: Kagi Search, the premium search engine you pay for
• Cool Video: GPU Programming and Language Design with Chris Lattner 
• Cool Video: Coding Adventure: Simulating Smoke
• Cool Video: UTF-8, Explained Simply
• Cool Library: Twoslash, generate TS metadata for interactive docs snippets
• Cool Read: Chris Coyier’s CSS starter
• Cool Read: Innovate, Leverage, Commoditize (ILC model) strategic gameplay

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript game engine for making 2D web games. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, and particles. Design your assets with tools like Aseprite and Tiled, then load them natively using first-party plugins.

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

News of the week of September 29, 2025: Is Deno the answer to npm's security issues? From the community: replacing .env files with 1Password, stepping outside of TypeScript's padded room, and temporal dead zones. Plus, Kamran fell into a rabbit hole and defeated the Red Queen: SSR with .NET.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• TSGO News: PR #1732: Improves source file parse time by ~10%
• How Deno protects against npm exploits
• DBOS 2.0 adds JS support with a decoratorless API. (docs)
• What’s new in Astro - September 2025

From the Community

• Liran Tal: Mitigate Supply Chain Security with DevContainers and 1Password for Node.js Local Development
• Vincent Rolf: The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is littered with var statements
• Paul Schmeing: TypeScript and the Illusion of Type-Safety
• Theo: Life after TypeScript
• Kamran: dotnet-ssr, an (experimental!) .NET SSR host

Cool Stuff

• Erik's LD58 Game Jam: Play the Gem Jam Game
• Video: Kamran on rendering React Router using a .NET SSR host
• Book: Ensh*ttification with Cory Doctorow (plus, Interview with Adam Conover)
• Kamran's Course: Staying on Task with the Pomodoro Technique
• Kamran's Course: Prioritizing Work with Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand
• Library: microsoft/node-api-dotnet, advanced interoperability between .NET and JavaScript in the same process.
• Library: agracio/edge-js, run .NET and Node.js code in-process on Windows, MacOS, and Linux

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript game engine for making 2D web games. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, and particles. Design your assets with tools like Aseprite and Tiled, then load them natively using first-party plugins.

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

News of the week of September 22, 2025: new default option in TS 6.0, Jiti upgrade, and Cloudflare's on a tear. Plus, npm's security roadmap. From the community: Python-style kwargs, running TS on MS-DOS, and running JS on PlayStation.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• PSA: State of JavaScript 2025
• TS 6.0 will enable "noUncheckedSideEffectImports" by default 🎉 (h/t Rob Palmer)
• Jiti 2.6 – runtime for TS/ESM in Node.js is now using SWC/RSPack
• tc39/proposal-nonextensible-applies-to-private (h/t Rob Palmer)
  • “This breaking change means that if you seal/freeze an object, it cannot later have private fields stamped upon it ❄️”
• DanielRosenwasser/proposal-array-push-all (h/t Rob Palmer)
  • “It lets you append many items into an existing array without running out of stack memory 👍”
• tc39/proposal-iterator-chunking (h/t Rob Palmer)
  • “It lets you make iterators that can chunk & window content”
• Cloudflare: Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
• Cloudflare: Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
• Cloudflare: A year of improving Node.js compatibility in Cloudflare Workers (h/t James Snell)
• GitHub: Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain
• Metaframeworks: Astro 5.14

From the Community

• Course: Free TypeScript tutorial (Scrimba) 
• David Brownman: Python-style kwargs in TypeScript
• Jimbly: From Steam to Floppy: Porting Modern TypeScript to Run on DOS
• JSLegendWeb: You Can Now Make PS2 Games in JavaScript 
• Discussion: Is Effect-Ts really good or is it just hype? : r/typescript

Cool Stuff

• Cool Tools: https://tiny-helpers.dev/ (by Stefan Judis) 
• Cool Games: Minnesota-made games (by Martin Grider)
• Cool Game: https://andre-lima.itch.io/now-thats-a-big-dragon 
• Cool Game: https://mookie4242.itch.io/escape-the-well 
• Cool Tools: Caddy and Vite plugin (h/t nuqayah)
• PSA: Find Missing Money & Unclaimed Property (mn.gov / Go find your state)

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript game engine for making 2D web games. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, and particles. Design your assets with tools like Aseprite and Tiled, then load them natively using first-party plugins.

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

News of the week of September 15, 2025: Shai-Hulud worm hits npm supply chain, WebAssembly 3 spec is ratified, and Elixir fans finally get their time in the spotlight. From the community: SquiggleConf was awesome, type branding and tuples, local-first app dev, and why @ts-ignore is almost always the worst option.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• Socket.dev covers Shai-Hulud: 
  • Updated and Ongoing Supply Chain Attack Targets CrowdStrike npm Packages 
  • Popular Tinycolor npm Package Compromised in Supply Chain Attack 
  • What the npm package attacks mean for us developers
• Wasm 3.0 spec completed
• Announcing AshTypeScript, part of the Ash Framework (Phoenix/Elixir)
• ts-to-zod now supports Zod 4.0
• Typebox 1.0 release

From the Community

• SquiggleConf Happened! Check out the streams (separate videos to come)
  • Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/C_ePbVZqXrw?si=MpRiE8n4xLNpfbV0
  • Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/live/vSXLDvvIpYE?si=cWKQTjZCx91HWJN9
• Federico (AzraelSec): Type Branding in Typescript 
• Renato: TypeScript Tuple Length 
• Evan Hahn: @ts-ignore is almost always the worst option
• Roadmap.sh: Everything You Need to Learn to be a TS Dev
• GitHub Actions can now run pure TS on Node 22/24 runners without a build step (h/t Brian Muenzenmeyer)
• Mathew Brown: Using Node's Test Runner with Typescript & React 
• Library Watch: Combinatorial CLI opt parsing
• Library Watch: Introducing: @traversable/valibot (h/t Andrew Jarret)
• Tool watch: FullStacked, a local-first app development environment
• Tool watch: Roguestrad, a Retro 3D Game engine forked from DOOM-3-BFG with TypeScript scripting support

Cool Stuff

• Funny Read: Is your son a computer hacker?
• Cool Lib: dom-to-image-more – render DOM elements as images
• Cool Tool:  Pages CMS - Hassle-free CMS for static sites powered by Git 

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript game engine for making 2D web games. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, and particles. Design your assets with tools like Aseprite and Tiled, then load them natively using first-party plugins.

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)