Episode Details

News of the week of August 25, 2025: the two fools unpack the expected breaking changes to TSConfig in the upcoming 6.0 release, explain Node's latest LTS notable changes, and cover the latest in the JS trademark case from Deno. Plus, a PSA if you use Nx! From the community: making the case to migrate to Node's type stripping, a peek at Vitest 4, Zod's new Codecs feature, refactoring types, Rolldown is the opposite of a letdown, and a bunch of neat libraries/framework releases to watch.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
• (06:46) - News: TSGo Refactoring and Find Reference Enhancements
• (07:54) - News: Expect Some (Good) Breaking Changes in TS 6.0
• (12:26) - News: Node.js 22.19.0 LTS Notable Changes
• (18:13) - News: RsPack 1.5 Features Type Re-export Analysis
• (21:27) - News: Deno's GoFundMe to #FreeJavaScript
• (22:38) - PSA: Supply Chain Attack Against Nx Packages
• (25:49) - Community Highlight: Attend SquiggleConf 2025
• (26:43) - Case Study: How Calm.com Migrated to Node Type Stripping
• (30:13) - Community Highlight: Dr. Axel's Corner
• (33:01) - Community Highlight: Vitest 4 Sneak Peek
• (34:28) - Community Highlight: Zod 4.1 Codecs
• (36:39) - Community Highlight: Shout-out to Remco for Fixing JSX Typing Bugs
• (37:24) - Community Highlight: TypedRocks Shows You How to Refactor Type Definitions
• (38:27) - Community Highlight: Neovim Support for TSGo Spotted in the Wild
• (39:09) - Library Watch: csv-utils Helps You Deal with CSV Files
• (39:39) - Library Watch: contrastrast Provides WCAG-compliant Color Manipulation
• (41:16) - Case Study: Plaid Cut Build Time by 97% with Rolldown
• (42:17) - Framework Watch: Runner V4 Released
• (43:53) - Framework Watch: Ripple, a TypeScript UI Framework
• (45:20) - Community Highlight: Joke of the Week
• (45:48) - Secret of the Handbook: declarationMap
• (47:17) - Cool Link: MuJS for Embedding Scripting into C/C++
• (48:57) - Cool Link: Cory Doctorow is Kickstarting a Book
• (50:44) - Cool Watch: Learn Game Dev from a Nintendo Game Designer
• (52:29) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

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• Alternatively, switch to Mint and save some cheddar (that's Kamran's referral link :-)

News

• TS 6.0 proposed deprecations and breaking changes
• Node 22.19.0 LTS notable changes include a new CA certificate API and unflagging WASM modules (see: source-phase imports)
• Rspack 1.5 release features type re-export analysis
• Deno's GoFundMe for #FreeJavaScript
• PSA: Nx supply chain attack (write-ups from Socket.dev and TheHackerNews)

From the Community

• SquiggleConf: September 18-19
• Calm.com:

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