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TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers

Kamran Ayub and Erik Onarheim

The two TypeScript Fools, Kamran Ayub and Erik Onarheim, get together weekly to bring you news, community highlights, and deep dives into the TypeScript ecosystem. Stay up-to-date on what's happening and learn new things to make you a better TypeScript developer along the way!

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  • #62
    April 7 · 59 min

    Spearphishing OSS Maintainers, EmDash is a Wordpress Replacement, and ECMA Fools Day | News | Ep 62

    News for the week of March 30, 2026: fun with UUIDs, Cloudflare gunning for Wordpress, and how OSS maintainers can defend against spearphishing attacks. From the community: a very Solid 6 hours, compiling TS to native UI code, and a super fast VIN decoder. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. 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 (05:01) - News: ECMA Fools Day (07:22) - News: Cloudflare's EmDash Wants to Replace WordPress (11:56) - News: Attackers Are Spear-phishing High Profile OSS Maintainers (20:31) - News: BabylonJS v9, a 3D TypeScript Game Engine (21:38) - News: Claude Code CLI Source Code Leaked (24:00) - Library Watch: LayoutSans, Pure TypeScript 2D Layout Engine (25:29) - Library Watch: PerryTS Compiles TS to Native UI on Any Platform (28:55) - Library Watch: Gagen, Generating GitHub Actions with TypeScript (30:48) - Library Watch: finprim, Type-safe Financial Primitives (32:27) - Library Watch: GameDevLibrary, Excalibur.js Demos and Snippets (34:14) - Highlight: How Vercel Made Turborepo 96% Faster (37:16) - Highlight: oxlint and oxfmt Framework Compatibility Matrix (37:46) - Highlight: Jake Archibald Highlights Proposed HTML-in-Canvas Feature (38:49) - Highlight: Boston TS Club is Back (39:17) - Highlight: Solid 2.0 with Ryan Carniato (40:18) - Highlight: Cardog's Super Fast VIN Decoder in Corgi V3 (41:32) - Highlight: Fireship's Explainer on What Pretext Does (43:48) - Bleets of the Week (44:46) - Secret of the Handbook: Assertion Functions (46:50) - Cool Link: neovim 0.12 (48:07) - Cool Watch: Hands-on with Artemis II (49:14) - Cool Watch: Floating Point Math is Really Hard (50:27) - Cool Read: Project Hail Mary (52:39) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye News ECMA Fools Day Every UUID Dot Com Hot Guids in your area Cloudflare: Announcing EmDash, Wordpress in TypeScript Socket: Attackers Are Hunting High-Impact Node.js Maintainers in a Coordinated Social Engineering Campaign BabylonJS v9 released Anthropic: Claude Code Source Code Leaked and Rewritten in Python Library Watch LayoutSans: Pure TypeScript 2D layout engine powered by Pretext PerryTS: Compile TypeScript to native UI on any platform (React Native, .NET MAUI alternative) Gagen: GH actions in TypeScript FinPrim: Financial Primitives in TypeScript GameDevLib: Excalibur.js demos and snippets From the Community Vercel: Making Turborepo 96% faster VoidZero: Oxlint Oxfmt support compatibility matrix Jake Archibald: HTML-in-Canvas demos Boston TS meetup is back! Ryan Carniato: 6 hours of Solid 2.0 talk Cardog: Binary Indexes and What a Tiny LL M Learned About VINs Fireship: He just crawled through hell to fix the browser… Bleets of the week: Jokes on them and what types for plastic BBQ set? Secret of the Handbook: TypeScript assertion functions Cool Links Neovim 0.12 Floating point math is hard. Really, really hard. Hands On with the Artemis II Trajectory Project Hail Mary (audiobook) Music Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

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  • #61
    April 1 · 50 min

    Aspire 13.2, Hybrid Type-aware Linting, and Claude Wrote a JS Engine | News | Ep 61

    News for the week of March 23, 2026: Aspire 13.2 now supports TypeScript app hosts, Node.js security releases, and axios got got. From the community: Auvred's hybrid linting research, refactoring with generics, and sharing signals across the server-client boundary. Plus, using Claude to write a JS engine from scratch. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. 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 (05:29) - News: Node.js Security Fixes Available (07:00) - News: Aspire 13.2 Brings TypeScript AppHost Support (10:19) - News: Firefox 149 Adds Split View, Free VPN (13:00) - News: Replay Adds React Render Debugging MCP Support (13:55) - PSA: Axios Supply Chain Attack (17:30) - Library Watch: Astro 6.1 (18:08) - Library Watch: ArrowJS 1.0, Agent UI Framework (19:48) - Library Watch: OxMgr, a Rust Port of PM2 (21:13) - Library Watch: AshTypeScript 0.16.0 with Typed Channels (22:11) - Library Watch: Pathwrite, a TypeScript Workflow Builder (24:14) - Library Watch: Reflow, Durable Workflows for TypeScript (26:28) - Library Watch: Pretext, Measure Text in Pure TypeScript (28:15) - Community: Hybrid Type-aware Linting Research by Auvred (29:54) - Community: State of Flint, Spring 2026 by Josh Goldberg (31:40) - Community: On Refactoring with Generic Types by Radoslaw Miernik (32:44) - Community: Bridging the Client-Server Boundary with Signals by Jovi (33:45) - Community: Building a JavaScript Engine with Claude Opus by Paulo Matos (38:19) - Community: WebMCP vs. MCP by Chrome Dev Blog (39:25) - Community: Remodel Your TS Code with Decorators by Michael Dowden (40:22) - Community: Vitest Crash Course by Web Dev Simplified (40:36) - Bleet of the Week (40:52) - Secret of the Handbook: unique symbol (42:52) - Cool Video: Understanding Complex Type Systems (43:37) - Cool Video: The Weirdest Result of Relativity You've Never Heard Of (45:02) - Cool Video: Watch Matt Pocock Implement a Feature with Claude Code (46:46) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye News Node.js: Node.js — Tuesday, March 24, 2026 Security Releases Aspire: Announcing Aspire 13.2 Josh Goldberg: TypeScript + Aspire talk Firefox: Firefox 149.0, split tabs, free VPN Replay: React Renders MCP tool for debugging PSA: Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm Library Watch Astro 6.1 – highlights Arrow.js: TypeScript agent UI framework Vladimir-Urik/OxMgr: Rust-alternative to PM2 process manager (language agnostic) AshTypeScript 0.16.0: TypedChannels (via Zach Daniel) Pathwrite: A TypeScript-first multi-step workflow builder for every framework Reflow: TypeScript workflow engine using SQLite From the Community Pretext: Text Layout in TypeScript (via conputer dipshit) Golar gets a linter (via Josh Goldberg) Auvred: Hybrid type aware linting Josh Goldberg: State of Flint: Spring 2026 Radosław Miernik: On Refactoring with Generic Types Jovide Croock: Bridging the Server-Client Boundary with Signals (Bsky) Paulo Matos: Agent builds a JS engine from scratch that passes test262 100% (via Rob Palmer) Chrome Dev Blog: When to use WebMCP and MCP Michael Dowden: Remodel Your TypeScript Code with Decorators Web Dev Simplified: Vitest Crash Course Bleet of the week Secret of the Handbook: Unique Symbols Cool Links Video: Understanding complex type systems Video: Weirdest result of relativity you've never heard of Video: Real-world Claude building a feature step-by-step (Matt Pocock) Music Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

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  • #60
    March 24 · 45 min

    TypeScript 6.0 is Official, Reducing Dependency Bloat, and a Zig-based Runtime | News | Ep 60

    News for the week of March 16, 2026: TypeScript 6.0 is stable and released, Next 16.2 is better for agents, and SolidStart V2 is coming soon. From the community: bloat in JavaScript projects (and what to do about it), a TypeScript CLI framework, and why Node.js needs a VFS and a better streams API. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. 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 (05:35) - News: TypeScript 6.0 is Officially Out (07:36) - News: Meta Ports Flow to Rust (08:54) - News: Next.js 16.2 is Better for Agents (10:51) - News: Nuxt 4.4 Brings Custom Data Factories, Vue Router 5 (11:36) - News: SolidStart V2 Gets a Roadmap Update and Beta (12:47) - News: Layoffs at Deno, Talented People for Hire (13:16) - PSA: Node.js Security Releases for Tuesday, March 24, 2026 (13:49) - Library Watch: e18e Helps Identify Removable Dependencies (15:35) - Library Watch: Knip v6 Gets 2-4x Faster (16:33) - Library Watch: ZigTTP TypeScript Runtime in Zig (20:36) - Library Watch: CrustJS, a Bun-native Framework for Building CLIs (21:56) - Library Watch: numpy-ts Gets 8-10X Faster (23:51) - Community: Three Pillars of JS Bloat by James Garbutt (27:40) - Community: Rob Palmer Accepts Emca Recognition Award (28:22) - Community: Why Node.js Needs a VFS by Matteo Collina (29:41) - Community: JavaScript Needs a Better Streams API by James Schnell (30:23) - Community: Tales from the Void Launch Week Recap (32:10) - Community: OpenUI Rewrites Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript (33:43) - Community: Animate Code Snippets by Joy of Code (34:04) - Bleet of the Week (34:21) - Cool Link: Customizable Selects by Jake Archibald (34:58) - Cool Read: Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization (35:50) - Cool Activity: Live Armored Combat (37:38) - The Minnesota Long Goodnight News Announcing TypeScript 6.0 Meta: Flow gets a Rust port Next.js 16.2: AI Improvements Nuxt 4.4 SolidStart v2 roadmap PSA: Node.js Tuesday, March 24 security release Library Watch e18e CLI: Analyze and replace dependencies to reduce bloat Knip v6: 2-4x faster than v5 (via Lars webpro.nl) zigttp: A TypeScript runtime written in Zig (via djidja8.bsky.social) Crustjs: A TypeScript-first Bun-native CLI framework (va sungkim) numpy-ts: numpy-ts is now 8-10x faster with WASM : r/typescript From the Community James Garbutt: The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat Rob Palmer: accepts Ecma Recognition award Matteo Collina: Why Node.js Needs a Virtual File System Listen to the Nodeland Banter episode James Snell: We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript Thread and PR: Experimental streams in node VoidZero: Tales from the Void: March Launch Week Recap | VoidZero OpenUI: Rewriting our Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript Related: Rust WASM vs. TS performance Joy of Code: How To Animate Code Using TypeScript 🪄 Bleet of the week Cool Links Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding a Civilization Jake Archibald: Customizable <select> element MN Armored Combat – enjoy the full-force contact sport of Buhurt Music Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

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  • #59
    March 19 · 53 min

    Vite 8, Vite+, Void, and How Well AI Plays Runescape | News | Ep 59

    News for the week of March 9, 2026: it's VoidZero all the way down, seriously. From the community: TanStack makes hotkeys simple, plus how good are AI agents at playing Runescape? Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. 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 (05:53) - News: Vite 8 is Here! (11:18) - News: Vite+ Alpha is Free and Open Source (16:12) - News: VoidZero Launches void.cloud to Deploy Your Vite App (20:17) - PSA: Hold Onto Your Butts for More Node Security Releases (21:27) - Library Watch: Vitest 4.1 Adds Test Tags (23:56) - Library Watch: Video.js v10 Beta (26:06) - Library Watch: Effect v4 Beta (28:07) - Library Watch: SyncPack v14 Syncs Monorepo Deps (30:03) - Library Watch: angular-doctor Checks Health of Angular Apps (30:56) - Community Highlights: Rust-like Error Handling in TS (32:51) - Community Highlight: TanStack Hotkeys by Web Dev Simplified (33:59) - Community Highlight: QR Code Engine in TS by Adam Surgenor (34:44) - Community Highlight: Modern TypeScript Packaging by Francois Best (35:31) - Community Highlight: Runebench Scores AI Agents on How Well They Play Runescape (38:08) - Community Highlight: How Go Devs See TS 7 by Cup O Go (39:16) - Bleets of the Week (40:23) - Cool Link: Calculate Pi from Coin Flips by Stand-up Maths (41:14) - Cool Link: Pi in the Sky Game by Coding Train (41:37) - Cool Tool: Overtype, a Hassle-free Markdown Editor (43:35) - The Minnesota Long Good Night News Vite 8 is out! Vite+ is OPEN SOURCE and FREE! VOID Cloud PSA: Prep for Node.js March 24 security releases Library Watch Vitest 4.1 is out: test tags! Video.js v10 Beta: Hello, World (again): 88% smaller bundle size Effect v4 Beta: 71% smaller bundle size Syncpack v14: Dependency sync CLI for monorepos antonygiomarxdev/angular-doctor: health-checker CLI for Angular apps From the Community Abid Omar: Rust-like Error Handling in TypeScript Web Dev Simplified: NEW Tanstack Hotkeys Library is Amazing Adam Surgenor: QR Code Generator in TS François Best: Modern TypeScript packaging (French Language) RuneBench: Evaluates AI agents by playing RuneScape Cup O’ Go: Go Devs Talk About TypeScript 7 Bleets of the Week: This is how TypeScript is being ported... JavaScript is Satan Cool Links Cool Update: KTOMG Caldera Update adds playthrough and completion tracking Cool Pi Day: Calculating pi from coin flips (without randomness) Cool Pi Day: Coding Challenge 169: Pi in the Sky Game Cool Library: OverType, the Markdown editor that's a textarea Music Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

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