My quality of life just improved by a huge amount (infinite amount?)! The typescript blog just got _dark mode_! HYPEE!!!11
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I'm very excited for my "Tonight's TypeScript Injection" talk at the first @UtrechtJS meetup in 3 years!
Also excited for @iAmChappIO's talk about Bun, the latest JS server-side runtime.
Feel free to join us on Sept 29th if you need a dose of JS love!
📢 New meetup!! 🎉
Thursday, September 29th from ~18:00 the lovely folks at @Bluefront_NL will host us for *two* presentations 😊, some socializing, and some food and drinks.
We'll also talk a bit about the future of our user group there.
RSVP at 👇
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TS 4.8 is here! Loads of quality of life improvements!
I'm actually pretty excited for the new support/fix for git checkout while in --watch mode on Linux. A niche issue, but very annoying!
TypeScript 4.8 is here! Now with
✅ Improved narrowing and inference
✅ Primitive-parsing from template string types
✅ --incremental/--watch perf improvements
✅ Lots of new correctness checks
and more! Read up and get it now!
devblogs.microsoft.com/types…
TypeScript: *powers JavaScript JSDoc-based Intellisense in VS family; gets better every release*
JS Devs: "Wow, JS Intellisense is so good these days you hardly even need TypeScript at all"
TypeScript:
They are doing... What now? Can anyone explain how transitive npm depencies are going to work? How about commonjs magic? @deno_landdeno.com/blog/changes#compat…
🐿 Sneak preview. Coming to StrykerJS: run mutation testing only on your changes. We're calling it "--incremental" and it will allow for vast performance improvements.
👩 Wife: "Why are there so few plants that can survive in the shade?"
-👨Me: "Well... plants kind of evolved to need sunlight, you know?"
👩 "That wasn't what I had planned!"
- 👨"You planned for photosynthesis not to exist?"
👩"Exactly!"
- 🤷♂️
The puns at the end of each chapter are a stroke of genius. It encourages me to read through the next chapter, and the next,. ....
> Why are const variables so serious?
> They take themselves too literally
🤣
@JoshuaKGoldberg
Wil je je kennis over TypeScript uitbreiden? Volg dan onze #training op 10-11-12 aug in Veenendaal/remote.
Je leert onderhoudbare #JavaScript applicaties ontwikkelen met TypeScript. Info: infosupport.it/3cMLbzV
Happening in ~1.5 hours on Twitch: I'll be continuing to work on @tseslint maintenance! My triumphant return to streaming after a few weeks of being away.
I'm thinking of continuing to automate more of the rules page generation. It's a fun task. 🧑💻
twitch.tv/joshuakgoldberg/sc…