require(esm) Stable in Node 24, TanStack RSC, and HTML-in-Canvas Demos | News | Ep 64

About this episode

This episode covers the latest news in the TypeScript community, including the stability of require(esm) in Node 24, updates on HTML-in-Canvas, and the closure of Cal.com.

News for the week of April 13, 2026 : require(esm) marked stable in Node 24.15.0 LTS, HTML-in-Canvas demos, and Cal.com goes closed source thanks to AI security. From the community: dependency cooldowns are not a solution, TanStack's take on RSC, and accidentally DDOS'ing npm with TypeScript. Sponsored by Excalibur.js Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools. Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (06:03) - News: TSGo Cut 400 Hours a Month From CI Builds (06:47) - News: Node 24.15.0 Marks require(esm) and Module Compile Cache Stable (08:40) - News: See HTML-in-Canvas in Action (11:19) - News: Everything Cloudflare Announced During Agents Week (14:20) - News: Mozilla Takes Pot Shots at Microsoft on Copilot Rollback (15:20) - News: Cal.com Goes Closed Source (18:03) - Library Watch: Elide Runtime 1.0…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kamran Ayub, Erik Onarheim

Topics covered

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• HTML-in-Canvas
• Cal.com
• Game Development
• Library Updates

Keywords

• TypeScript
• Node 24
• Excalibur.js
• Cal.com
• HTML-in-Canvas
• Game Engine
• Library Watch

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Organizations: Node, Cal.com, Mozilla, Microsoft

Products: Excalibur.js, TSGo, HTML-in-Canvas, Phaser 4, numpy-ts, MavonEngine, gql.tada

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