TypeScript 7 Beta, Deno Fresh 2.3, and Const Generics | News | Ep 65

About this episode

The episode discusses the highlights from the TypeScript 7 beta and Deno Fresh 2.3, along with various community tools and libraries.

News for the week of April 20, 2026 : highlights from the recent TypeScript 7 beta and Deno Fresh quality of life improvements. From the community: Bloomberg's type-safe CLI library, a new TSGO toolchain, and TypeScript database migrations. 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 (05:42) - News: TypeScript 7 Beta! (15:01) - News: Deno Fresh 2.3 is Zero JS by Default (18:37) - News: Firefox 150 Has Better Split Views, PDF Editor (20:23) - Library Watch: TypeScriptToLua Supports TS 6.0 (21:34) - Library Watch: ttsc, a TypeScript Go Toolchain to Replace tsx (23:27) - Library Watch: tesseron, Turn Any App Into an MCP Server (26:03) - Library Watch: stricli, Bloomberg's Lightweight CLI Library (27:38) - Highlight: Writing Node.js Add-ons…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kamran Ayub, Erik Onarheim

Topics covered

• TypeScript 7 Beta
• Deno Fresh
• TypeScript tools
• TypeScript database migrations
• TypeScript game development

Keywords

• TypeScript
• Deno
• game engine
• CLI library
• database migrations
• web development
• JavaScript

Sponsors

Excalibur.js

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bloomberg, Prisma, Firefox, TypeScriptToLua, tts, tesseron, stricli, Zod, TuiSky, unbash

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