Episode Details

News 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 News
• (04:59) - News: ECMAScript 2025 is Here
• (07:06) - News: Vite 7.0 is Out
• (10:15) - News: Node 24.3.0 and 22.17.0 LTS Releases
• (10:39) - News: Oracle v Deno Trademark Fraud Claim is Dismissed
• (12:04) - News: Astro 5.10 Introduces Experimental Live Content Collections
• (12:34) - Community Highlight: 6 Advanced TS Tricks by OlegWock
• (15:54) - Community Highlight: TypeScript Stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier
• (19:52) - Community Highlight: zap-socket Offers a TypeScript-first WebSocket API
• (20:42) - Community Highlight: Dr. Axel Shares Tips for Making Regular Expressions Better in JS
• (22:01) - Community Highlight: Functional Programming Examples in TS
• (22:50) - Community Highlight: Exhaustiveness Checking with never
• (24:12) - Community Highlight: Deno Adding Support for Import Type Text and Bytes
• (24:39) - Community Highlight: Importing JSON as const
• (26:37) - Community Highlight: Branded Types Example with ArkType
• (27:21) - Cool API: Promise.try Nuances Erik Realized After the Fact
• (29:48) - Cool Watch: Mitchell Hashimoto's Talk on Testing
• (30:44) - Cool Listen: Jake Archibald on Why We Don't Have HTML Imports
• (31:25) - Cool Link: PNG 3.0 Spec
• (32:41) - Cool Link: Invite an Eagle to Your Zoom Meeting
• (33:41) - Cool Read: Node.js Celebrates Pride Month

• Ecma International approves ECMAScript 2025: What’s new? 
• Vite 7.0 is out and deprecates a bunch of stuff
• Oracle fraud claim is dismissed in the latest JavaScript™ Trademark Update from Deno
• Astro 5.10 brings experimental Live Content Collections

From the Community

• 6 advanced TypeScript tricks · OlegWock (h/t Reddit)
• TypeScript stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier (h/t Reddit)
• Use https://github.com/type-challenges/type-challenges to become a generic God
• zap-socket – A Typescript-first abstraction over WebSockets (h/t Reddit)
  • Blog post: My attempt at fixing websockets 
• Dr. Axel's tips for making regular expressions easier to use in JavaScript 
• Functional Programming tips in TypeScript by Kanishka Naik
  • Algebraic Data Types
  • Monoids and Semigroups 
  • Pattern Matching 
  • Lazy Evaluation 
• Exhaustive Checks with never by Nico