ECMAScript 2025 is Ratified, Vite 7, and 6 Advanced TS Tricks | News | Ep 24

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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

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Erik Onarheim
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Erik Onarheim
Self-professed Neovim Dandy 🎩 Software developer in Minneapolis ⛄I created a game engine for the web called Excalibur 🗡
Kamran Ayub
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Kamran Ayub
Solopreneur, speaker, and Pluralsight author. Founder of KeepTrackOfMyGames.com.
ECMAScript 2025 is Ratified, Vite 7, and 6 Advanced TS Tricks | News | Ep 24
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