News of the week of September 8, 2025: Deno 2.5 adds a bunch of DX improvements, Fresh 2.0 is out of beta, and a supply chain attack mitigation for pnpm users. From the community: Val Town's OSS TypeScript editor, discussing underrated TS features, and tools/libraries to help make your configs, secrets, and forms type-safe.

Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to the Show
(05:46) - News: TSGo Adds JSDoc Support to LSP
(07:08) - News: Deno 2.5 Released
(15:05) - News: Deno Fresh 2.0 is Now Out of Beta
(15:28) - News: rspack and webpack Add Dynamic Import Tree Shaking
(16:26) - News: pnpm 10.16 adds minimumReleaseAge Config Option
(18:10) - Community Highlight: Dr. Axel's Corner
(18:51) - Community Highlight: Lessons from npm Security Failures
(23:47) - Community Highlight: Val Town's Open Source TS Editor
(26:12) - Community Highlight: Lint Rules Spreadsheet by Josh Goldberg
(28:16) - Community Highlight: Most Underrated Features in TS?
(31:48) - Tool Watch: confkit Provides Type-safe Config and Secrets
(32:46) - Library Watch: taxum, a TypeScript-first HTTP Framework
(33:35) - Library Watch: conformal is a Type-safe FormData and Submissions Library
(34:31) - Community Highlight: Why Using Bun in Production (Maybe) Isn't the Best Idea
(39:14) - Secret of the Handbook: Analyze Trace Tool
(40:37) - Cool Watch: Restoring Old GameBoys and Game Systems
(42:04) - Cool Game: Assassin's Creed Mirage
(44:37) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

TSGo
- Full JSDoc Support in LSP (#1702) by Anders
- TypeScript Build Watch Mode (#1684) by Sheetal
Deno 2.5 + Fresh 2.0
Rspack 1.5.3 features advanced tree shaking for dynamic import members
Pnpm 10.16 adds “minimumReleaseAge” to help mitigate supply chain attacks

From the Community

Cool Stuff

Cool Tool: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-analyze-trace
Cool Watch: Retrofitting a broken Game Boy with modern upgrades
Now playing: AC: Mirage

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