Node 24 Officially Brings TS Support to the Masses | News | Ep 17

News for the week of May 5, 2025: Node 24 officially brings TS support to the masses, Parcel adds RSC support, and a TC39 proposal gets replaced.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Introduction
• (04:07) - News: Node 24 Release Highlights
• (08:09) - News: What's New in TSGo?
• (09:05) - News: TC39 Records and Tuples Proposal Has Been Withdrawn
• (11:45) - News: Parcel Bundler Introduces Support for RSC
• (13:15) - Community Highlight: Why Was Node 24 Delayed?
• (15:52) - Community Highlight: Type-safe Theming in Tailwind CSS
• (16:52) - Community Highlight: TypeScript Gotchas via Reddit
• (20:48) - Community Highlight: Trick for Error Handling in TypeScript
• (22:46) - Cool Stuff: V8 Compile Hints
• (25:40) - Cool Stuff: Bare, a Minimal JavaScript Runtime
• (26:16) - Cool Stuff: AwesomeDev's Node 24 Rundown
• (26:27) - Cool Stuff: Build System in C for C
• (27:01) - Cool Stuff: Typecraft's Vim Challenges

Links

• Event: IGDATC Game.wav
• Article: An introduction to Node.js 24 from Red Hat
• Video: Awesome on Node.js 24
• Repo: Records and Tuples Proposal replaced with tc39/proposal-composites
• Video: Arrays, objects... now ‘composites’? 
• Docs: Parcel 2.14 introduces React Server Components 
• Bluesky: Interesting thread on why Node 24 was delayed
• Article: Type-Safe Theming in Tailwind CSS Using CSS Variables and TypeScript
• Redditors share TypeScript Gotchas
• Article: Giving V8 a Heads-Up: Faster JavaScript Startup with Explicit Compile Hints
• Video: Jason Yu shares his way of doing try..catch in TS
• Video: Build System For C in C 
• Learn: Typecraft's Vim Challenges 

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

Creators and Guests

Host

Erik Onarheim

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Host

Kamran Ayub

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