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You Say Vite, I Say Vite | Ep 4

Episode 4 Published 1 year, 1 month ago

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 and Qwik Video
(15:52) - Community Highlight: Zig, TypeScript, and WASM by David Bushell
(16:49) - New Library Watch: tsc-extra
(17:24) - New Library Watch: typemap and typebox
(18:23) - Vite Overview
(22:01) - Vite: Getting Started
(22:53) - Vite: build and preview
(23:34) - Vite: How Does It Work?
(26:57) - Vite: Support for Libraries and Frameworks
(28:04) - Vite 6.0: Environments API
(30:27) - Vite 6.0: Support for Additional HTML Asset References
(31:28) - Vite: Testing with Vitest
(32:48) - Vite Gripes and Gotchas
(33:52) - Vite Gripes: Dev and Prod Build Inconsistencies
(35:14) - Vite Gotcha: Forgetting to Set a URL Base
(35:49) - Vite Gotcha: Targeting Legacy Browsers
(38:30) - Vite Gripes: npm linking
(41:43) - Vite's Future: What Are We Excited About?
(44:12) - Secrets of the Handbook: Type Guards and Predicates
(47:27) - Cool Stuff: Write Typesafe Emails with React.email
(49:51) - Cool Yet Questionable Stuff: Custom Type Errors When Working With Generics

Week of January 27

News: TS 5.8 Beta Released
News: Ruck 9, a Deno web framework
News: Guy Bedford releases es-module-shims@2.0, allowing type stripping in the browser
Community: Qwik and Deno (📸 Video)
Community: Benchmarking Zig, TS and WASM by David Bushell (✍️ Blog Post)
New Libraries
- tsc-extra
  - Static analysis tool, type checking only, no code generation or compiling
  - Useful for documentation or lower-level TS tools
- Typemap is like a Zod alternative, built for TypeBox
  - “It offers a common TypeScript syntax for type construction, a runtime compiler for high-performance validation and type translation from one library to another.”

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