Angular Turns 20, Remix Revived, and Hurricane André Hits Firefox | News | Ep 20

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News for the week of May 26, 2025: Angular's 20th release brings DX improvements, Remix replaced by React Router receives reincarnation, and how a lone volunteer brings the much-anticipated Temporal API to Firefox.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Personal News and Updates
• (04:46) - News: Angular 20 is Out and It's Boring (But in a Good Way)
• (08:39) - News: Remix Receives Revival
• (10:03) - News: Vite with Rolldown is in Preview
• (11:32) - News: What's New with Astro in May 2025
• (12:05) - News: Temporal API Finally Hits Browsers with Firefox 139
• (16:52) - PSA: Take the StackOverflow 2025 Developer Survey!
• (17:40) - Community Highlight: Josh Goldberg's Types Beyond TypeScript Talk
• (18:27) - Community Highlight: sirhamy on the Cost of Throwing Errors in JS/TS
• (19:16) - Community Library Watch: ts-migrating for Migrating Your TSConfig Incrementally
• (20:26) - Community Library Watch: jsonv-ts, a JSON Schema Validator
• (21:08) - Community Library Watch: tsargparse, a Type-safe CLI Parser
• (21:28) - Community Highlight: TypeScripting the Technical Interview by Richard Tower
• (22:02) - Community Highlight: CanIUse... for Angular by angular.courses
• (22:25) - Community Highlight: Type-safe Internationalization by Web Dev Simplified
• (23:13) - Community Highlight: Deno Might Have the Features You're Missing
• (23:41) - Community Highlight: skeary.me Wrote a Programming Language... in TypeScript Types
• (24:30) - Discuss: Competition Between Node.js, Deno, and Bun
• (29:51) - Cool Links: David Macaulay is a National Treasure
• (32:05) - Cool Links: Progressive JSON by Dan Abramov
• (33:24) - Cool Stuff: Curated List of Data Grids by Ian Langworth
• (33:54) - Cool Stuff: Hack Into React Internals with bippy
• (34:43) - Cool Stuff: Wookash Interview with Inigo Quilez
• (35:29) - Cool Stuff: Building a Software Rasterizer with Sebastian Lague

News

• Angular 20 is out! (And it's boring)
• Remix gets revived
• Announcing Rolldown-Vite
• What’s New in Astro – May 2025
• Shipping Temporal (Matt Pocock video, Wes Bos tweet)
• PSA: Stack Overflow Survey 2025 is Open

From the Community

• Josh Goldberg gives Types Beyond TypeScript talk at JS Nation 2025
• Hamilton teaches us about errors as values and how they're 335x faster than throwing new errors (sirhamy)
• Typescripting the technical interview (Richard Towers)
• Angular CanIUse
• How To Handle Internationalization Like A Senior Dev (Web Dev Simplified)
• Deno Might Have the Exact Tools You’re Missing…
• TLTSS: a language written in TS types (by skeary.me)
• Library watch: Jason Yu’s ts-migrating tool helps teams migrate their codebase to modern TSConfig settings incrementally!
• Library watch: jsonv-ts validates and produces clean JSON schemas with a Zod-like API (h/t Reddit)
• Library watch: tsargparse is a simple type-safe CLI args parser (h/t Reddit)
• Discuss: Are Deno, Bun, and Node.js competing? (via James Snell)

Cool Stuff

• Kamran
  • The Way Things Work (1994) on Classic Reload
  • David Macauley’s book, Motel of the Mysteries (1979)
• Erik
  • Dan Abramov - Progressive JSON
  • Curated List of JS Grids by Ian Langworth
  • Bippy - Hack into React:
  • Wookash: Painting with Math | Inigo Quilez
  • Coding Adventure: Software Rasterizer with Sebastian Lague

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

Creators & Guests

• Erik Onarheim - Host
• Kamran Ayub - Host