TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers TypeScript Native is Now in Preview | News | Ep 19
May 27, 2025
39:25
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.
Chapters
- (00:00) - Introduction and Personal News
- (05:12) - News: TypeScript Native is in Preview!
- (10:12) - News: Anders' Talk About TS Native at MS Build
- (12:58) - News: Zod 4 is Officially Released
- (15:51) - News: Reports of Deno's Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
- (17:23) - News: Importing JSON Across Major Browsers
- (20:13) - News: Experimental node.config.json Support
- (24:43) - Community Highlight: A Brief History of JavaScript by Deno.land
- (25:40) - Community Highlight: tsdown Now Supports Transpile-only Unbundle Mode
- (27:21) - Community Highlight: Vite's Rolldown Preview is Here
- (28:19) - Community Highlight: Go Attend Jake Bailey's Gophercon TS Talk
- (28:41) - Community Highlight: super-utils-plus, a Modern Lodash Alternative That's TypeScript-first
- (29:17) - Community Highlight: tsc.run, a TypeScript Serverless Framework
- (29:58) - Community Highlight: How to Create a TS Library That Runs Everywhere in 2025
- (30:45) - Community Highlight: TypeScript.jobs Board is Looking for Feedback
- (31:28) - Cool Stuff: Markdown Presentation Frameworks
- (33:21) - Cool Stuff: Wookash Interview with Andreas Kling
- (34:31) - Cool Stuff: Computers & Prime Numbers by Purple Mind
- (34:51) - Cool Stuff: Playwright Testing Talk from MS Build
- (35:15) - Cool Stuff: Reporting on AI's Energy Usage
- (35:51) - Cool Stuff: Six Ways to Make Your Electron App Faster
- (36:56) - Fun Stuff: My New Favorite Hobby is Watching Microsoft Employees Being Slowly Driven Insane by AI Copilot
Links
- Microsoft Announces TypeScript Native Previews
- Zod 4 is officially released 🎉
- Reports of Denos Demise are greatly exaggerated
- You can now import json files across browsers (h/t stefanjudis.com)
- Experimental node.config.json support in Node 24.1.0 minor release (h/t aduh95)
- Deno’s brief history of JavaScript
- Tsdown now has unbundle support (h/t sxzz.dev)
- Vite now has a Rolldown preview too
- MS Build: Anders gave a talk on TypeScript native port
- Jake Bailey built a tool called ts-to-go
- Jake Bailey will also be speaking about TS Go at Gophercon
- super-utils-plus: modern lodash alternative that's TypeScript-first by Dhaxor (Gain John)
- How To Create a Simple TypeScript Library That Runs Everywhere (2025)
- Tsc.run – A TypeScript-first serverless framework (via Reddit)
- Looking for a TS job? The TypeScript.jobs board folks are looking for feedback (via Reddit)
- MIT Technology Review has an absolute banger of a series on AI energy usage
- Improve Electron app performance by Amila over at palette.dev, the maintainer of electron-react-boilerplate
- Reddit: My new favorite hobby is watching Microsoft employees being slowly driven insane by AI copilot
- presenterm, a Markdown presentation tool that runs in your terminal
- Via Daniel Raniz: https://sli.dev, another Markdown presentation tool
- MS Build: Advanced Playwright Debugging and Test Resilience | DEM499
- MS Build: How Microsoft Developers Use AI in Real-World Coding | BRK103
- Can You Build a Web Browser? | Andreas Kling
- How Computers Generate Massive Primes In Seconds
- Google Slides Code Highlighter (from Roman Nurik)
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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)
Creators & Guests
- Erik Onarheim - Host
- Kamran Ayub - Host