Deno 2.5, Type-safe Configs and Forms, and Underrated TS Features | News | Ep 35

News of the week of September 8, 2025: Deno 2.5 adds a bunch of DX improvements, Fresh 2.0 is out of beta, and a supply chain attack mitigation for pnpm users. From the community: Val Town's OSS TypeScript editor, discussing underrated TS features, and tools/libraries to help make your configs, secrets, and forms type-safe.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
• (05:46) - News: TSGo Adds JSDoc Support to LSP
• (07:08) - News: Deno 2.5 Released
• (15:05) - News: Deno Fresh 2.0 is Now Out of Beta
• (15:28) - News: rspack and webpack Add Dynamic Import Tree Shaking
• (16:26) - News: pnpm 10.16 adds minimumReleaseAge Config Option
• (18:10) - Community Highlight: Dr. Axel's Corner
• (18:51) - Community Highlight: Lessons from npm Security Failures
• (23:47) - Community Highlight: Val Town's Open Source TS Editor
• (26:12) - Community Highlight: Lint Rules Spreadsheet by Josh Goldberg
• (28:16) - Community Highlight: Most Underrated Features in TS?
• (31:48) - Tool Watch: confkit Provides Type-safe Config and Secrets
• (32:46) - Library Watch: taxum, a TypeScript-first HTTP Framework
• (33:35) - Library Watch: conformal is a Type-safe FormData and Submissions Library
• (34:31) - Community Highlight: Why Using Bun in Production (Maybe) Isn't the Best Idea
• (39:14) - Secret of the Handbook: Analyze Trace Tool
• (40:37) - Cool Watch: Restoring Old GameBoys and Game Systems
• (42:04) - Cool Game: Assassin's Creed Mirage
• (44:37) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

• TSGo
  • Full JSDoc Support in LSP (#1702) by Anders
  • TypeScript Build Watch Mode (#1684) by Sheetal
• Deno 2.5 + Fresh 2.0
• Rspack 1.5.3 features advanced tree shaking for dynamic import members
• Pnpm 10.16 adds “minimumReleaseAge” to help mitigate supply chain attacks

From the Community

• Dr. Axel’s Corner
  • Learning web development: Implementing web servers 
  • Learning web development: Authenticating users with plain Node.js
• OneUpTime: Lessons from npm's Security Failures 
• Wojciech Maj: Why using Bun in production (maybe) isn't the best idea
• Val Town’s open source TS editor was rewritten from scratch
• Josh Goldberg is tracking common rules across linters for Flint
• Reddit discussion: Name underrated things in Typescript
• Tool watch: https://www.confkit.dev/ (h/t HackerNews) -- Type-safe config and schemas that work across all runtimes
• Library watch: https://taxum.js.org/ (h/t DASPRiD) -- TypeScript-first HTTP framework
• Library watch: https://github.com/marcomuser/conformal -- Type-safe FormData and submissions

Cool Stuff

• Cool Tool: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-analyze-trace
• Cool Watch: Retrofitting a broken Game Boy with modern upgrades
• Now playing: AC: Mirage

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)