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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WebStorm Supports TS Go, V8 Stringifies JSON 2X Faster, and a TypeScript AI Conference | News | Ep 30
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48:52News of the week of August 4, 2025: WebStorm 2025.2 adds support for TypeScript Go language server (preview), V8 made JSON.stringify supa-supa-fast, and there's a new TypeScript AI conference on the block. From the community: recommended tools and libraries for TS developers, how to prevent ReDOS attacks, and an interview discussing how the JavaScr…
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State of TypeScript Linting 2025 | Joshua Goldberg | Ep 29B
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41:53Joshua Goldberg (JoshuaKGoldberg.com), creator of typescript-eslint, joins us to discuss the state of linting TypeScript projects in 2025. Which linters should we pay attention to? Why are there so many? What's unique about TypeScript? Josh shares his perspective and covers what to look for in a linter and how best to utilize them in your projects.…
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Node 22.18 LTS Green Lights TypeScript for Orgs | News | Ep 29
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42:20News of the week of July 28, 2025: TS 5.9 released, Node 22.18 is the first LTS to support TypeScript, a Rust-based alternative to Next.js, plus why Laravel ain't your pappy's PHP. From the community: eslint-max-depth-ts plugin, Zod vs. Valibot battle, Better Auth is so good, a deal with the TypeScript devil, and did you know you can render motion …
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Building Secure TypeScript Applications | Liran Tal | Ep 28B
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57:02Liran Tal (lirantal.com) from Snyk joins us to dive deep into writing secure TypeScript applications. What's different compared to vanilla JavaScript security? Will schema validators fix all our woes? Can't we let LLMs find and fix security vulnerabilities? Liran educates us about the pitfalls and risks with misplacing trust in TypeScript and LLMs …
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Deno Fresh 2.0 Alpha, a BigInt Trick, and Learn TS in One Hour | News | Ep 28
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32:57News of the week of July 21, 2025: Deno Fresh 2.0 is in alpha, TS 5.9 RC has some small changes, and beware the latest eslint-config-prettier supply chain attack. From the community: learn TypeScript for free in an hour, master generics through Soduku, run TS in the browser without a build step, and a library for modern TS dependency injection. Cha…
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Nuxt 4.0, Bun's Smarter Types, and Testing Type Completions | News | Ep 27
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38:21News 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 …
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TypeScript 5.9 Beta, Redonkulous Linting, and a Community Enum Syntax Proposal | News | Ep 26
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41:48News of the week of July 7, 2025: We dive into the TypeScript 5.9 beta, an experimental Go linter for TS/JS, plus make sure you upgrade your Node.js versions! From the community: a new enum syntax proposal in case JS doesn't get native enums, TSL brings faster type-aware linting, and trashh_dev asks TypeScript: WTF? Chapters (00:00) - Introduction …
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Deno 2.4 Bweets, Next.js Vuln Alert, Modern Node, and Typed Mongo | News | Ep 25
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40:31News of the week of June 30, 2025, Deno Bundle is Back in Black in 2.4! We coin the term "Bweet", Deno also gets some non-standard import attributes for text and bytes, OTEL is now stable in Deno, and Next.js has a DoS vulnerability. From the community: we chat about modern Node.js patterns for 2025, NDC Oslo talks are rolling in on YouTube, and st…
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ECMAScript 2025 is Ratified, Vite 7, and 6 Advanced TS Tricks | News | Ep 24
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35:22News for the week of June 23, 2025: Ecma ratifies ES2025 standard, Vite 7 is mostly deprecations, Oracle gets a free pass, and the experimental type stripping warning is... stripped... from latest Node LTS releases. From the community: 6 advanced TS tricks, a new type-safe WebSockets API, and RegEx tips. Chapters (00:00) - Introduction and Personal…
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New Biome, Mocha, Jest, and k6 Releases All Kissed by TypeScript | News | Ep 23
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39:52News for the week of June 16, 2025: Biome v2 features type-aware linting without TSC, Mocha and Jest both get native ESM and TS upgrades, and Grafana Lab's k6 load testing tool... also can now run native TS tests. From the community: type safety for WebGPU shaders, type narrowing map and indexed key access, and resilient import maps. Chapters (00:0…
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Strip Your Own Types, New Rust-based Linter, and #ROLP is Trending | News | Ep 22
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38:26News for the week of June 9, 2025: Node's type stripping wrapper is released as a standalone package, VoidZero is building a super fast linter, and pnpm introduces experimental virtual store for speeding up package installs. From the community: secure your TS apps, #ROLP, and updated Exploring JS book edition for 2025. Chapters (00:00) - Introducti…
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TSC Init New Defaults, Who Dis? Plus Vite 7, Babel 8 Betas | News | Ep 21
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30:49News for the week of June 2, 2025: TSC init command gets new, modern defaults, plus new betas drop for Vite 7 and Babel 8. From the community: Learn advanced TS features in 25 mins, and improve the performance of your TS monorepos with secret arcane knowledge. Chapters (00:00) - Introduction and Personal Updates (02:26) - News: tsc --init Finally H…
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Painless TSConfig Migrations | Jason Yu | 20B
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34:24Jason Yu (ycmjason.codes) joins us to share an open source tool he created to help teams migrate their legacy TSConfig compiler options to modern-day options painlessly and progressively. Learn about his experience implementing strict options on big teams, how it inspired his new tool, and how you can take advantage of it right now! Chapters (00:00…
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Angular Turns 20, Remix Revived, and Hurricane André Hits Firefox | News | Ep 20
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37:42News for the week of May 26, 2025: Angular's 20th release brings DX improvements, Remix replaced by React Router receives reincarnation, and how a lone volunteer brings the much-anticipated Temporal API to Firefox. Chapters (00:00) - Personal News and Updates (04:46) - News: Angular 20 is Out and It's Boring (But in a Good Way) (08:39) - News: Remi…
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TypeScript Native is Now in Preview | News | Ep 19
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39:25News 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…
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Microsoft Layoffs Impact TypeScript Team | News | Ep 18
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33:23News for the week of May 12, 2025: Microsoft layoffs impact TypeScript team, and Deno explains the radio silence on Fresh 2.0. Chapters (00:00) - Personal News (06:25) - Correction: Node 24's Security Model (07:22) - News: Microsoft Lay-offs Impacting TypeScript Team (11:32) - News: Deno Posts an Update on Fresh 2.0 (13:27) - News: TSGo Gets LSP Co…
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What's New in Node 24 | Deep Dive | Ep 17B
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37:40In this week's deep dive, we cover everything TypeScript developers need to know about the latest Node 24 release, including examples of each new language feature. We've even put together a code snippet repo you can check out! Chapters (00:00) - Introduction to Node 24 and TypeScript Support (02:49) - Type Stripping and Experimental Transform Types…
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Node 24 Officially Brings TS Support to the Masses | News | Ep 17
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28:40News for the week of May 5, 2025: Node 24 officially brings TS support to the masses, Parcel adds RSC support, and a TC39 proposal gets replaced. Chapters (00:00) - Introduction (04:07) - News: Node 24 Release Highlights (08:09) - News: What's New in TSGo? (09:05) - News: TC39 Records and Tuples Proposal Has Been Withdrawn (11:45) - News: Parcel Bu…
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Deno 2.3 Ships Tons of QOL Improvements | News | Ep 16
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32:54News for the week of April 28, 2025: Deno 2.3 brings some nice quality-of-life improvements, plus void(0) has released a new all-in-one bundler for your TypeScript libraries. Chapters (00:00) - Introduction (04:51) - News: This Week in TypeScript Go (05:47) - News: Deno 2.3 Released (08:36) - News: tsdown is a TypeScript Bundler for Library Authors…
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Building Games in TypeScript | Erik Onarheim | Ep 15B
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52:37Erik shares how you can build games for the web with TypeScript and the Excalibur.js game engine. What's involved? What are some of the primitives you need to learn? What tools are there to make assets? And how do your webdev skills translate? All this and more in today's deep dive episode! Chapters (00:00) - Introduction to Excalibur.js (01:13) - …
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TSGo Gets Autocomplete and JSX Support | News | Ep 15
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27:46News for the week of April 21, 2025: TSGo gets autocomplete and JSX support, pnpm adds JSR support, and remember to migrate off Node 18! (00:00) - Introduction and Personal Updates (04:55) - News for the Week of April 21, 2025 (06:26) - News: TSGo Gets JSX and Autocomplete Support (08:36) - News: pnpm Gets JSR Package Support (10:00) - News: Juno A…
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Are We Sick of TypeScript.fm Yet? | Retrospective | Ep 14B
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58:53In this episode, Erik and Kamran have a candid discussion about how the podcast started, how it went, and what the plans are for the future. Chapters (00:00) Introduction (01:18) Is TypeScript.fm Done? (01:59) Erik's Reflection (03:05) Kamran's Reflection (03:48) What's the Goal of the Podcast? (06:46) What Do We Want to Focus On? (12:10) Should We…
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TC39 Enums in JS Proposal Moves to Stage-1 | News | Ep 14
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11:56News for the week of April 14, 2025: TC39 Enums in JS Proposal moves to Stage 1, plus Next.js gets some TS LSP plugin perf/stability improvements. Chapters (00:00) - Introduction (02:07) - News for Week of April 14 (03:20) - News: SquiggleConf 2025 (03:40) - News: TC39 Enums in JS Proposal Moves to Stage 1 (04:20) - News: Deno 2.2.10 (04:48) - News…
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DOOM.ts | Dimitri Mitropoulos | Ep 13
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1:24:58This week on the pod, we talk to Dimitri Mitropoulos about building DOOM in the TypeScript type system. We walk through all the nitty gritty and explore this truly amazing engineering feat! We touch on things that Dimitri learned and discovered along the way, and how you might be surprised what you can accomplish by trying! In the news, Zod 4 Beta …
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Enums in JS, Deno v Oracle Cage Match, and Parcel Gets React Server Components | Grab Bag | Ep 12
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31:21This week on the pod, we were very busy with travel, cons, and sickness! We have a news grab bag episode talking about the JS enums proposal, Deno v. Oracle, Parcel+RSCs, Firefox vulnerabilities and more! Also Please email us your feedback for your retro episode ([email protected]) 00:00 Intro 00:50 VGM Con 02:07 IGDATC Talk Wednesday April 9t…
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This week on the pod, we talk all about the Bun runtime funtimes! This is a powerful new player in the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime space focusing on DX, speed, and pushing the state of the art! We dive into the details and offer some of our thoughts around when to use it at the moment. In other news we avoid phone scams and talk fun new TypeS…
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The Vanilla TS Experience | Josh Goldberg | Ep 10
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56:54In this episode, we are joined by special guest Josh Goldberg to teach us about getting started with TypeScript from scratch. If you're new to TS, this is a great introduction! And if you've been using TS for a long time, you can explain to your friends where they should start to make their experience smoother. In the news, Nx gets support for proj…
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The Internet blows up as TypeScript reaches its next Pokemon evolution, and Kamran and Erik scramble to create an episode to pick up the pieces and make sense of it. In other news, TikTok announces Lynx, Angular gets some fetch upgrades, and Josh Goldberg releases v2 of create-typescript-app. Week of March 3, 2025 (07:09) - Big News: TypeScript Is …
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React, TypeScript, and... Schbooleans? | Ep 8
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1:07:52This week Kamran dives into some nuances with using React with TypeScript while Erik plays the React fool and coins the word "schbooleans" (yep). In the news, erasableSyntaxOnly gets shipped, some new minor releases in the ecosystem, and oh, TypeScript types can run DOOM. Yes, TS is a real language now. Erik's News Personal Blog Post: The Best Wors…
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This week Kamran and Erik discuss when ORMs are helpful... or hurtful. They cover trade-offs, the spectrum of abstraction, the value of escape hatches, and the options available to you in the TypeScript ecosystem. Week of February 17, 2025 (05:54) - News: Ember 6.2 Released (07:16) - News: Deno 2.2 Released npm-check-updates package Package JSON Up…
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The Sheer Joy of Publishing to JSR | Ep 6
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1:07:04This week Kamran and Erik unpack JSR, the new open alternative to the npm registry from the folks at Deno. They both published packages and discuss what JSR offers npm doesn't, when to use it, and how it works for both consumers and maintainers. (00:00) - The Sheer Joy of Publishing to JSR | Ep 6 (05:40) - News: TypeScript 5.8 RC (07:45) - News: JS…
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Compilers, Runtimes, and Funtimes | Ep 5
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1:03:49This week Kamran and Erik try to dissect the complex landscape of JavaScript and TypeScript compilers, transpilers, interpreters, engines, and runtimes (oh my!). What are the tools, what are they used for, why is the world so complicated, and what should you care about as a TS developer? (04:55) - This Week in TypeScript: Node.js Corepack Issue Aff…
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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 (11:02) - This Week in TypeScript: Ruck 9 Released (12:39) - This Week in TypeScript: Type Stripping in the Browser (14:45) - Community Highlight: Deno an…
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This week Erik and Kamran make poor dad jokes, talk about Deno, and tour its ecosystem. If you're new to Deno, this will be a great introduction! (00:00) - We Don't Talk About Deno-no-no-no | Ep 3 (06:54) - This Week in TypeScript: Bun 1.2 Released (10:54) - This Week in TypeScript: 5.8's ErasableSyntaxOnly Flag (14:57) - This Week in TypeScript: T…
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Node 23 Gets TypeScript Support, Mostly | Ep 2
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36:57In this episode, Kamran and Erik discuss the newly released TypeScript support with Node 23.6 and its implications. What's supported? What's not supported? And how does it differ from Bun or Deno? (00:00) - Ep 2 - Node 23 Gets TypeScript Support (00:05) - Introduction (04:04) - TypeScript News and Announcements (10:27) - A Closer Look at Type Strip…
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In the inaugural episode of TypeScript.fm, the two fools introduce themselves, share their "origin stories," and share plans for the podcast. Briefly covered in the news: Vite 6, Deno 2's expansion of the ecosystem, Node 23's new TypeScript support, and the latest Excalibur.js 0.30.0 release. (00:00) - Ep 1 - Two TypeScript Fools, One Podcast (00:1…
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