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.

• (04:21) - This Week in TypeScript: TS 5.8 Beta

• News: TS 5.8 Beta Released
• News: Ruck 9, a Deno web framework
• News: Guy Bedford releases [email protected], allowing type stripping in the browser
• Community: Qwik and Deno (📸 Video)
• Community: Benchmarking Zig, TS and WASM by David Bushell (✍️ Blog Post)
• New Libraries
  • tsc-extra
    • Static analysis tool, type checking only, no code generation or compiling
    • Useful for documentation or lower-level TS tools
  • Typemap is like a Zod alternative, built for TypeBox
    • “It offers a common TypeScript syntax for type construction, a runtime compiler for high-performance validation and type translation from one library to another.”

 Vite Deep Dive

• Homepage
• Evan You's State of Vite 2023 Keynote (📸 Video)
• Why Use Vite?
• Vite 6 Updates
• Sapphi-Red's Increasing Vite's Potential With the Environment API (✍️ Blog Post)
• Vite's browser compatibility
• Vite's future, bundling with Rolldown

Links

• Handbook: Type Guards and Predicates
• Send typesafe emails with React.email
• Better string literal errors (📸 Video)

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

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