TypeScript Congress 2023

Daniel Rowe discusses building a TypeScript-first framework at TypeScript Congress and shares his involvement in various projects. Nuxt is a progressive framework built on Vue.js, aiming to reduce friction and distraction for developers. It leverages TypeScript for inference and aims to be the source of truth for projects. Nuxt provides type safety and extensibility through integration with TypeScript. Migrating to TypeScript offers long-term maintenance benefits and can uncover hidden bugs. Nuxt focuses on improving existing tools and finds inspiration in frameworks like TRPC.

This talk discusses the performance issues in TypeScript builds and introduces a new feature called isolated declarations. By running the compiler in parallel and using isolated modules, significant performance gains can be achieved. Isolated declarations improve build speed, compatibility with other tools, and require developers to write types in code. This feature has the potential to further increase performance and may be available in TypeScript soon.

Hello, welcome to Let's Make an Inference Algorithm. Today, I'll give you a high-level overview of how TypeScript's generic inference process works. We'll explore different possibilities like 'any,' 'unknown,' or 'number.' The algorithm for inferring type arguments collects candidates and picks the first one, ensuring the best correct answer. The concept of the best common supertype is used to determine the best candidate. Context sensitivity is addressed in the algorithm, allowing for optimal behavior.

Today's Talk provides an overview of TypeScript performance and tools to address performance issues. It covers the compiler process, including the parser, binder, checker, and transformers steps. The Talk emphasizes the importance of keeping TypeScript up to date for better performance. It also discusses strategies for optimizing TypeScript compilation and debugging, analyzing build performance using trace files, and improving performance by simplifying types and avoiding overloading union types.

The TC59 Type Annotations proposal, also known as Types with Comments, introduces the ability to run typed code in JavaScript. It aims to bring TypeScript back into JavaScript and create a separation between type system and runtime. TypeScript's popularity is on par with JavaScript, raising concerns about the influence of Microsoft. The proposal progresses by addressing runtime interaction and token soup in type specifications. Research, community involvement, and quantifying the effects of supporting this comment style are important goals.

Hi, everyone. Today, I'll be showing you some of the features that modern frameworks implement or frameworks that leverage Typescript implement to improve the developer and user experience. I'll cover some of the features that Expo with Expo Router and Next.js with the AppRouter implements. Let's talk about setting up TypeScript in both Expo and Next.js. Both frameworks provide a TypeScript-first development experience. The most important feature is type safe routing, which enhances developer productivity and app stability. Frameworks provide a built-in link component for link generation. It reduces the risk of typos and throws type errors when linking to non-existent routes. In Expo, enable the .typed experiment and import the link component from the exporouter package. Expo supports static and dynamic routes, and throws errors for incorrect parameters. ExpoRouter provides hooks like UseSegments and UseRouter for more control. In Next.js, enable typedRoutes in the next config file. We can import the link component from the next link package and restart the dev server after updating the next config file. Next.js automatically generates route definitions and includes the type file in the TS config. Autocompletion is available for the href attribute, which can be a string or dynamic value. Next.js provides hooks like use router for static navigation and router.push to prevent redirection to broken routes. Catch all routes in type safe routing pose a challenge for enforcing type safety on the href attribute. TypeScript may not throw an error for routes that may be broken or lead to unwanted pages. Keep this in mind when working with catch all routes. Before a production build, route types should be in place to ensure accurate type definitions. Generating routes is an ongoing task that needs to happen at the right moment to avoid build-time errors. When implemented correctly, type-safe routes can elevate the developer experience by preventing broken links or dysfunctional routes. In Next.js, server components and client components have different limitations. Next.js provides automatic error checking for importing useState in server components and enforces the useClientDirective to prevent using client-related code in the wrong places. Next.js also ensures type safety by throwing errors for invalid segment config options and requiring the alt attribute for image components to improve accessibility. Config files in Expo and Next.js have different approaches to incorporating TypeScript, with Expo using the TS node require hook and Next.js supporting type checking through jsdoc in the config JS file. By enabling type-safe routing, we catch potential issues at compile time, ensuring robust routes and unbroken links. Many other frameworks and tools leverage TypeScript to empower developers and deliver error-free experiences to users.

The Talk discusses the limitations of TypeScript and the lies we tell ourselves about its type safety. It explores examples of unsafe operations and bending the type system using keywords like type assertion and function is dice. The Talk also covers catching syntax errors, type mismatches, and the complexity of conditional types and generics. It emphasizes the importance of understanding TypeScript's limitations and making well-informed decisions as software engineers.

Hello, I'm Lucas, a software engineer at Klarna in Sweden. I will be sharing my best tips and tricks with TypeScript. One useful tool is tsconfig-basis, which eliminates the need for copying and pasting the same tsconfig file. Rendered types in TypeScript are powerful for handling different types of strings, and type guards and assertion functions make them even more useful. Enums in TypeScript can be number, string, or const, each with its own advantages and limitations. Lastly, there are new features in PS 5.2 like 'using' for resource disposal and 'unknown' for data protection, as well as a case conversion utility type for interfaces.

The speaker discusses the benefits of replacing shell scripts with TypeScript, highlighting the limitations of shell scripts and the advantages of TypeScript such as cross-platform compatibility and better tooling. Deno is presented as the ideal platform for single file scripting, with its built-in support for TypeScript, automatic dependency installation, and sandboxing. The dax library is mentioned as a useful tool for scripting, providing a cross-platform shell and other APIs. Overall, the Talk emphasizes the power and flexibility of using TypeScript and Deno for scripting purposes.

This Talk discusses the concept of runtime validation in TypeScript and how it bridges the gap between TypeScript's expressiveness and runtime capabilities. The speaker explains the evolution of top-down parsing and the shift-reduced parser that made runtime validation possible. The benefits of runtime validation in terms of flexibility, scalability, and efficiency are highlighted. The integration of validation and the type system is emphasized, along with the enhanced validation capabilities and new features offered by the Archetype framework.

Today's Talk explores TypeScript integration and refactoring, code action handling, the TypeScript server and refactoring process, bug reporting, and the TypeScript protocol and LSP. The Talk discusses how TypeScript is integrated into editors, the role of code action providers, and the communication between the client and server. It also highlights the two-stage process of code actions and the importance of bug reporting. Additionally, it mentions the TypeScript protocol and how it allows for language-specific extensions. LSP is mentioned as a powerful extensibility solution used by various languages.

This Talk discusses TypeScript's migration to modules, the challenges faced, and the automation used for the migration. The TS Morph library and git are used for code transformation and managing changes. The final step involves converting TS dotted names to named imports. The migration to ESBuild brings benefits like faster development loop and improved import organization in TypeScript.

Object proxies are middleware for objects that allow control over input and output. They have various use cases such as controlling data access, adding logging, and handling responses. Implementing object proxies involves transpiling calls into network requests and handling property access and method calls. Handling object proxy traps and errors involves faking object structure, logging target objects and properties, and resolving errors. Making API calls with object proxies involves defining the correct type, making backend calls, and wrapping methods to return promises. Object proxies are widely used in ORMs and RPC libraries and should be explored and experimented with.

Key-value databases are optimized for high availability and partition tolerance, making them ideal for storing non-relational data structures. They prioritize speed and high availability over consistency, making them suitable for simple data models or one-to-one mappings. However, they have limited query capabilities compared to relational databases. Some available options for key-value databases include DynamoDB, CloudFlare Worker KV, Redis, and FoundationDB. Using key-value databases in TypeScript requires addressing challenges such as serialization, deserialization, secondary indexes, relationships, and validation. The Talk includes a demonstration of an application that showcases the use of secondary indexes and the implementation of a key-value database in Deno or Redis.

This talk explores the challenges and benefits of generating types for APIs. The speaker discusses the need for a better client experience and the popularity of generating clients. They also explain the use of OpenAPI for generating REST API clients and the use of Cold Block Writer for code generation. The talk covers the process of defining types for parameters and responses, generating the client and request, and using the generated client. The speaker also touches on validation in production and the initial challenges with TypeScript.

Leveraging TypeScript and Atomic Design can solve code structure conundrums and achieve readability, efficiency, and flexibility. TypeScript offers benefits like intelligent refactoring, improved on-boarding, and fewer bugs. Typescript makes you think differently and opens doors for what you can do. Real-world challenges and considerations can be exacerbated when using TypeScript with atomic design. Avoid over-engineering and code depth, and stay close to the product to maintain codebase alignment.

Learning something new is scary, but overcoming the fear of judgment and embracing patience and practice are key. Understanding learning techniques and the importance of continuous learning are essential in overcoming the fear of public speaking. Learning from podcasts and sharing clips can help in overcoming the paralysis of learning. Making mistakes is inevitable, but it is a part of the learning process. Discovering passion and finding the dream job can be a challenging journey. Learning styles, studying techniques, and embracing frustration are crucial in the learning journey. Typescript provides structure and tools for easier learning. Continuous growth and embracing uncertainty are important for personal development. Starting live streaming requires attention to gear and audio quality.

This Talk discusses module system complexities and terminology, TypeScript and Node disagreements, and fixing TypeScript errors with the Helmet package. It also explores module resolution and type disagreements, challenges with TypeScript and Node support, and the need for improvements in popular packages.

TypeChat is an open-source library that uses TypeScript types to guide and validate responses from language models. It allows for the creation of complex responses and provides a way to repair errors in the model. TypeChat programs enable better flow of data and the ability to refer to individual steps. The math example demonstrates the use of a program translator and metaprogramming techniques for type safety. Language models trained on both code and prose perform well in this context.

The Talk discusses the potential of higher kind of types (HKTs) for library semantics, enabling better inference and type-level operations. It explains how HKTs can be created in TypeScript by exploiting function types as a function of object attributes. This allows for the creation of composable functional utilities with intelligent type inference and a chaining interface that computes type-level results. Overall, the Talk highlights the benefits and possibilities of using HKTs in software development.

Today, I'm going to be talking about how type generation helped reduce bugs and improve our developer experience at Rollbar. The Monolith tech stack is built primarily on Python Pyramid, a web framework that's similar to Django, Ruby on Rails, or Express. To address debugging, performance, and code navigation challenges, we migrated to a tech stack that includes TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, and React Query. Codegen is used to generate TypeScript code on both the server and client side, enhancing debugging, performance, and code navigation.

Tibor Blanesy from Sonar presents advanced techniques for linting with ESLint, including the use of ControlFlowGraph to detect errors in code. The algorithm is based on liveness analysis, which identifies live variables at any point in the program. Additionally, the talk covers the computation of block sets using the difference between outset and kill set unionized with genset.

Today's Talk discusses enhancing static code analysis using TypeScript language server and abstract syntax tree (AST). TypeScript can help with static analysis by providing types based on function signatures. By integrating TSMorph into a Babel plugin, we can check types for specific nodes in the abstract syntax tree. Enhancements to static analysis include checking console.log arguments and removing unnecessary expressions. TypeScript's type information can be used to compile CSS and extract it into a separate stylesheet, enabling better compilation and build time performance.

Today's Talk explores the world of TypeScript ecosystem tooling, discussing essential tools for project setup, including package managers and project scaffolding. It also covers code analysis, testing, and deployment in TypeScript, as well as best practices for maintaining high-quality code. The Talk emphasizes the importance of intelligent code editors, code formatters, and linters in ensuring code quality. It also highlights the significance of codebase maintainability and following TypeScript best practices for efficient and scalable code.

Mark Erickson discusses the complexities of publishing TypeScript libraries, including considerations like build artifact file formats, package exports, and different user environments. He shares his experiences with ESM support and interop with other module formats, and the challenges faced in migrating Redux to TypeScript. Erickson highlights the importance of understanding file formats and module types, and the insights gained from discussions with the TypeScript team. He also emphasizes the need for better tools and documentation in the ecosystem for publishing and maintaining TypeScript libraries.

Today's Talk discusses running TypeScript in WebAssembly on the cloud using Fermion's WebAssembly runtime. Fermion provides a serverless environment called Spin that allows for easy serverless application development in multiple languages. The process of creating a TypeScript serverless app with Spin involves installing Spin, creating a new app using the HTTP TS template, and testing it on localhost. To deploy the app, the 'spin deploy' command is used, and Fermi on cloud handles routing and makes the app accessible through a public URL.

This Talk discusses the benefits of using GraphQL to unify data sources, the flexibility of deploying APIs with GraphBase, and the ability to customize the GraphQL API using TypeScript. The GraphBase SDK allows developers to import auth, config, connector, and schema, providing full type safety and configuration options. TypeScript provides a helpful coding experience with hover-over hints and descriptions. The Talk also highlights the ability to extend the Stripe API using custom code and the ease of configuration with GraphBase and TypeScript.