Deno 2.3 Ships Tons of QOL Improvements | News | Ep 16

News for the week of April 28, 2025: Deno 2.3 brings some nice quality-of-life improvements, plus void(0) has released a new all-in-one bundler for your TypeScript libraries.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Introduction
• (04:51) - News: This Week in TypeScript Go
• (05:47) - News: Deno 2.3 Released
• (08:36) - News: tsdown is a TypeScript Bundler for Library Authors
• (11:29) - News: Astro 5.7 Release
• (13:04) - Community Highlights: "Macros" in TypeScript by cinny.bun.how
• (15:40) - Community Highlights: Dan Abramov's AMA on BlueSky
• (16:02) - Community Highlights: Josh Goldberg's Series on "If I Wrote a Linter..."
• (18:03) - Community Highlights: Plaid Migrated 100 Services to Deno Deploy
• (19:52) - Community Highlight: Pinterest Migrated 3.7MM Lines of Flow Code to TypeScript
• (21:59) - Dr. Axel's Corner: Converting Values to Strings
• (23:14) - Community Highlights: Build Your Own Build Tools with Immaculata
• (24:52) - Community Highlights: Type-safe Route Management in Vue
• (25:56) - Cool Stuff: Hate git? Try Sapling Instead
• (27:45) - Cool Stuff: Nerd Out with HVAC Ceiling Cassettes
• (30:00) - Cool Stuff: Build Custom Fonts with FontForge
• (30:28) - Cool Stuff: Quantum Computing Explainer by 3Blue1Brown
• (31:05) - Cool Stuff: "Ed", an Early Text Editor
• (31:25) - Cool Stuff: 4000+ Icons for Your Game at Game-Icons.net

Links

• Website: Minnestar events
• Website: IGDATC
• Tool: Deno 2.3
• Tool: tsdown
• Tool: Astro 5.7
• Bsky thread: Macros in TypeScript (@cinny.bun.how)
• Bsky thread: Dan Abramov AMA
• Article: If I wrote a linter, part 1 (Joshua Goldberg)
• Article: Plaid migration to Deno Deploy
• Article: Pinterest Flow to TS migration
• Article: Converting values to strings (2ality)
• Library: Immaculata
• Library: vue-route-query
• Tool: Sapling SCM
• Article: Ductless Ceiling Cassettes
• Video: Quantum computing explainer (3blue1brown)
• Video: ed text editor (Kay Lack)
• Website: Game Icons

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

Creators & Guests

• Erik Onarheim - Host
• Kamran Ayub - Host