TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers Nuxt 4.0, Bun's Smarter Types, and Testing Type Completions | News | Ep 27
News of the week of July 14, 2025: Nuxt 4.0 is released along with an acquisition by Vercel, TSGO ships go-to-type definition support, and Bun ships smarter types. From the community: test type completions and benchmark instantiations with a testing package from Arktype, treating types as values with type-level maps, and dive a bit deeper into how type inference works.
Chapters
- (00:00) - Introduction and Personal News
- (06:02) - News: Nuxt 4.0 Release and NuxtLabs Joins Vercel
- (09:57) - News: TSGO Adds Go-to-type Definition Support
- (10:33) - News: Node 24.4.1 Security Patches
- (12:12) - News: Bun 1.2.19 Ships Smarter Types
- (13:21) - News: SvelteKit Now Supports Vite 7 and Rolldown
- (13:52) - Community Highlight: oxlint + tsgolint = no slowdown!
- (16:01) - Community Highlight: Type-safe Event Emitters by Artem
- (17:13) - Community Highlight: Understanding TypeScript's Type Inference by SharpCoderBlog
- (17:46) - Community Highlight: Testing Type Completions in TypeScript by Arktype
- (19:17) - Community Highlight: Type-safe Persistence and Auto-theming in Svelte 5 by Puru Vijay
- (19:59) - Community Highlight: Your GPU is a JavaScript Runtime by Iwo Plaza
- (20:54) - Community Highlight: DHH Hates TypeScript
- (22:15) - Community Highlight: Node and Deno Permissions Discussion by Dr. Axel
- (25:29) - Community Highlight: Treating Types as Values with Type-level Maps by Gregros
- (27:08) - Community Highlight: Return Types on Functions, Yay or Nay? by Kyle Shevlin
- (28:15) - Community Highlight: Jake and Josh Interview on Software Engineering Daily Podcast
- (28:34) - Cool Link: Dokploy is an OSS Alternative to Vercel, Netlify, and Heroku
- (30:07) - Cool Link: Turning a Toy Into a Cyberdeck by Attoparsec
- (30:52) - Cool Link: What's New in Vite by Evan You
- (31:38) - Cool Link: Add Windows to Your App with winbox.js
- (33:21) - Cool Link: Marginal Utility of Money by The Happy Philosopher
- (37:42) - Post-credits Banter
Personal News
- Sorry for the delay, Kamran just got back from vacation!
- Follow Kamran's trip on Insta
News
- Nuxt 4.0 is released and NuxtLabs joins Vercel
- typescript-go: Implement go-to-type-definition (PR #1405)
- Node.js 24.4.0 and 24.4.1 include high-severity CVE fixes (as well as 20.x, and 22.x release lines)
- Bun 1.2.19 is smarter when you are not using `dom` lib types
- What’s new in Svelte: July 2025
From the Community
- Boshen: oxlint + tsgolint = no slowdown! no-floating-promises completes 4.4k files in 3.2 seconds, in the vscode repo.
- Artem: rettime, a type-safe event emitter
- SharpCoderBlog: Deep Dive into TS Type Inference
- Arktype: Testing Type Completions with @ark/attest (bsky thread)
- Puru Vijay: Type-Safe Persistence and Auto-Theming in Svelte 5
- Iwo Plaza: Your GPU is a JavaScript runtime* (TypeGPU deep-dive)
- DHH: I hate TypeScript
- Discussion: Per-module or Per-dependency Permissions?
- Greg Rosenbaum: Treating types as values with type-level maps
- Kyle Shevlin: Return types on functions, yay or nay?
- Software Engineering Daily Podcast: TypeScript with Jake Bailey
Cool Stuff
- Tool: dokploy is an OSS alternative to Netlify
- Video: Turning a toy into a cyberdeck
- Video: What's New in Vite Explained by Its Creator
- Library: Put Windows in Your Web App with WinBox.js
- Blog: How Understanding the Marginal Utility of Money Will Make you Happier
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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)