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Are you switching from TypeScript to JavaScript in your project? No? You'll be left behind! Moving to JavaScript seems to be a new trend right now.
💎 Highlight of the Week
Svelte was first, but Hotwired's Turbo joins the wave - you may not recall the project, but maybe your older friends will know - Turbo (Turoblinks) are removing TypeScript entirely from the project. Worth taking a look at this PR to know the motivation and the reaction of the community.
📎 Thought-Provoking Bits
Staying on the topic, here's a long post about the author's motivation behind this decision.
As you may know, or already saw, this met an exceptional response from the frontend community - even some decided to bring back TypeScript to the mentioned project.
The whole frontend Twitter (X!?) is spammed about this decision, and a lot of projects are joking that they will also switch to JavaScript. Will you join them?
Are you struggling to get these 100s in the Lighthouse for your SEO/Marketing team? Send them this Xeet (Tweet?!) from the person who was a part of the team which was implementing the search rankings. They say that only Web Vitals influence them, not the entire Lighthouse stats.
add<number>(4,5)andnew Point<bigint>(4n, 5n)are valid JavaScript fragments. You don't believe me? Run it through prettier and you see what happens!Staying on fun news, THE ROME HAS FALLEN, not the real one of course, but the "unified developer toolchain" - if you would like to read more about this funny coincidence I really recommend reading Bytes #219.
📦 Useful Whatchamacallits
Pierre - A different way to build together—a new developer platform that brings together your entire team to build and ship software.
Nitro - an open source TypeScript framework to build ultra-fast web servers.
🤠Weekly Meme
