Astro is Skyward Bound, Stable require(esm), and Temporal Finally Ships | News | Ep 52

Описание: News for the week of January 12, 2025: Astro finds a new home, Chrome ships Temporal API, and latest Node marks require(esm) as stable. From the community: type-safe UI, how TypeScript differs at dev-time vs runtime, and Deno's (impressive) latency under load.


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Chapters




• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show



• (05:11) - News: Astro Joins Cloudflare



• (06:09) - News: Astro 6 Beta Brings Parity to Dev and Prod Behavior



• (07:46) - News: Node 25.4.0 Brings Stable require(esm)



• (09:42) - News: Chrome 144 Ships Temporal, Safari... wen?



• (12:58) - Library Watch: Ohm Lets You Build Parsers, Interpreters, and Compilers



• (14:07) - PSA: Fastify Express Middleware Bypass Vulnerability



• (15:09) - Community Highlight: Daniel Rosenwasser Fixes BOM Bug



• (15:53) - Community Highlight: Type-safe UI by Andrew Hathaway



• (16:51) - Community Highlight: Forcing TS to Be Exhaustive by Carlos Menezes



• (18:11) - Community Highlight: Deno's Low Latency Under Load



• (19:43) - Community Highlight: Deno 2.6.5 Adds WebP and GIF Support to createImageBitmap



• (20:08) - Community Highlight: TypeScript. Runtime. And In-between by Ariel Shulman



• (20:48) - Community Highlight: You Should Be Using Dev Containers



• (21:42) - Community Highlight: useOptimistic Won't Save You by Colum Kelly



• (22:09) - Community Highlight: React Native Best Practices for AI Agents by Callstack



• (23:39) - Bleet of the Week



• (24:23) - Cool Link: Gameboy LEGO Set



• (25:00) - Cool Link: Global Game Jam is Happening Soon



• (25:56) - Cool Link: Realistic Terrain with Wave Function Collapse



• (27:19) - Cool Link: Complete CSS Course by Andy Bell



• (29:13) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye




News

• Astro: The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare (https://astro.build/blog/joining-clou...)  
• Theo: Cloudflare takes on Next.js (   • Cloudflare takes on Next.js  )  
• Astro: Astro 6 Beta (https://astro.build/blog/astro-6-beta/)  
• Node 25.4.0 is out: Joyee Cheung BSky Thread (https://bsky.app/profile/joyeecheung....)
• Chrome 144: Temporal shipped, Safari its your turn (https://bsky.app/profile/bell.bz/post...) (via Andy Bell)
• Sarah Gooding: Temporal API Ships in Chrome 144, Marking a Major Shift for JavaScript Date Handling (https://socket.dev/blog/temporal-api-...) (via Rob Palmer)
• Temporal Polyfill (https://www.npmjs.com/package/tempora...)
• Differential serving / bundling (https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2018/...) by Jeremy Wagner
• Library Watch: Ohm (https://ohmjs.org/) (via JavaScript Weekly Issue 768: January 13, 2026 (https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/768) )
• PSA: Fastify Express middleware can be bypassed (https://cvefeed.io/vuln/detail/CVE-20...)

From the Community

• Daniel Rosenwasser found a latent bug (https://bsky.app/profile/danr.bsky.so...) in TS 6.0 with BOMs and strict testing
• Andrew Hathaway: Type-Safe User Interfaces & the Manifest Pattern (https://andrewhathaway.net/blog/manif...)  
• Carlos Menezes: Forcing TypeScript to be exhaustive (https://www.carlos-menezes.com/posts/...)  
• Deno: P99 Latency is 72% Lower Than Node.js (https://bsky.app/profile/deno.land/po...)
• Deno: Deno 2.6.5 Adds WebP and GIF Support to createImageBitmap (https://bsky.app/profile/deno.land/po...)  
• Ariel Shulman: Typescript. Runtime. And in Between. - Ariel Shulman - NDC Copenhagen 2025 (   • Typescript. Runtime. And in Between. - Ari...  )
•  Syntax/Coding Garden: you should be using dev containers (   • you should be using dev containers  )
• Colum Kelly: useOptimistic Won't Save You (https://www.columkelly.com/blog/use-o...) (via React Weekly Issue #3 (h...