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Alex Johansson tRPC.io

A TypeScript toolkit for building end-to-end typesafe data layers

tRPC doesn’t generate code for you, add functions to your run-time, or require any additions to your build pipeline. It simply allows your client code to be aware of your server-side type annotations and declarations so you can have type-safety and autocompletion inferred from its API paths, input/output data, and errors.


Deno github.com

Deno 1.6 lets you compile TypeScript to a single executable

A (potentially) landmark feature landed in Deno 1.6:

deno compile --unstable https://deno.land/std@0.79.0/examples/cat.ts will make you an executable version of the module.

This puts Deno-based TypeScript projects in the same league as Go and Rust by providing a way to distribute software without the pain of dynamically linking multiple files. (This single-binary distribution has made Go a popular choice for projects such as the GitHub CLI and Stripe CLI.)

Node has had a similar capability by way of Vercel’s pkg project, but Deno sets itself apart by supporting the feature as part of the runtime itself.

TypeScript github.com

Tips for performant TypeScript

From Microsoft’s TypeScript wiki on GitHub:

There are easy ways to configure TypeScript to ensure faster compilations and editing experiences. The earlier on these practices are adopted, the better. Beyond best-practices, there are some common techniques for investigating slow compilations/editing experiences, some common fixes, and some common ways of helping the TypeScript team investigate the issues as a last resort.

Martijn de Haan nullbyt.es

A new TypeScript Postgres query builder

Martijn de Haan:

It’s been almost 3 years since I started working on this query builder idea of mine. Today is finally the day Mammoth hits 1.0. Mammoth is a no-batteries-included type-safe Postgres query builder for TypeScript. Hooray!

Congrats on shipping, Martijn! Here’s a peak at the API:

const rows = await db
    .select(db.foo.id, db.bar.name)

TypeScript github.com

Airbnb's tool for helping migrate code to TypeScript

ts-migrate is a tool for helping migrate code to TypeScript. It takes a JavaScript, or a partial TypeScript, project in and gives a compiling TypeScript project out.

ts-migrate is intended to accelerate the TypeScript migration process. The resulting code will pass the build, but a followup is required to improve type safety. There will be lots of // @ts-expect-error, and any that will need to be fixed over time. In general, it is a lot nicer than starting from scratch.

ts-migrate is designed as a set of plugins so that it can be pretty customizable for different use-cases. Potentially, more plugins can be added for addressing things like improvements of type quality or libraries-related things (like prop-types in React).

Marius Andra github.com

Autogenerating Kea's TypeScript support

Marius Andra added TypeScript support to his React state management library with kea-typegen:

I tried a lot of different ways to add TS support to Kea. At the end of the day what was needed was just not possible without an extra type generation step. I’ll document the failed attempts in a blog post one day. The issue boils down to the fact that each block inside a logic (e.g. reducers) gets the logic itself as a parameter (reducers: logic => (...)). That kind of loopy stuff is just not possible with TS right now. At least not to the level that it has to be for it to work in Kea (think of selectors that depend on each other). Ultimately, all of the pure-TS attempts I tried would have yielded a partial solution.

Thus kea-typegen was born. Even if it’s just a step along the way (TS compiler plugins a’la babel someday?) and still missing many features, it’s already really useful. It uses the TypeScript compiler API to analyse your source files and print out complete types (interfaces) for them.

Marius also recorded a video of the process in action.

Svelte svelte.dev

Svelte <3 TypeScript

Orta Therox, making the big announcement on behalf of the Svelte team:

We think it’ll give you a much nicer development experience — one that also scales beautifully to larger Svelte code bases — regardless of whether you use TypeScript or JavaScript.

Up until now TypeScript was usable with Svelte, but not officially supported by the project. What does that official support look like?

  • You can use TypeScript inside your <script> blocks — just add the lang="ts" attribute
  • Components with TypeScript can be type-checked with the svelte-check command
  • You get autocompletion hints and type-checking as you’re writing components, even in expressions inside markup
  • TypeScript files understand the Svelte component API — no more red squiggles when you import a .svelte file into a .ts module

I know a lot of people have been waiting for this. Congrats to all involved on a big release!

React github.com

200 bytes to never think about React state management libraries ever again

Gotta love when a library is so small that Logbot can JIT inline it in the News and save us precious clicks…

import React from "react"

export interface ContainerProviderProps {
	children: React.ReactNode

export interface Container<Value> {
	Provider: React.ComponentType<ContainerProviderProps>
	useContainer: () => Value

export function createContainer<Value>(useHook: () => Value): Container<Value> {
	let Context = React.createContext<Value | null>(null)

	function Provider(props: ContainerProviderProps) {
		let value = useHook()
		return <Context.Provider value={value}>{props.children}</Context.Provider>

	function useContainer(): Value {
		let value = React.useContext(Context)
		if (value === null) {
			throw new Error("Component must be wrapped with <Container.Provider>")
		return value

	return { Provider, useContainer }

export function useContainer<Value>(container: Container<Value>): Value {
	return container.useContainer()

TypeScript github.com

Zero-config CLI for TypeScript package development

Despite all the recent hype, setting up a new TypeScript (x React) library can be tough. Between Rollup, Jest, tsconfig, Yarn resolutions, TSLint, and getting VSCode to play nicely….there is just a whole lot of stuff to do (and things to screw up). TSDX is a zero-config CLI that helps you develop, test, and publish modern TypeScript packages with ease–so you can focus on your awesome new library and not waste another afternoon on the configuration.

Shlomo Kraus github.com

Mockshot – automatic mock generation from snapshot tests

We made a silly joke on Twitter yesterday (this is what Twitter is for, no?) about test doubles and that unfortunate moment when they inevitably surprise you.

This prompted Shlomo Kraus to reach out and tell us about Mockshot. In brief:

Imagine you could:

  1. Never manually write a mock again
  2. Have a guarantee that your mocks are always valid

Sounds nice! It works by using Jest’s snapshot tests output to generate mocks to be used in other tests.

This is purposeful coupling, which seems like it could backfire in the long-run. However, the team behind the library has been using it for over a year and are still singing its praises. For more on their experience creating and using it, read this.

Julian Tellez github.com

Lambcycle – a declarative lambda middleware with life cycle hooks

Lambcycle is a middleware for lambda functions. It defines a configurable life-cycle and allows you to focus on your application’s logic. It has a “Feature as Plugin” approach, so you can easily create your own plugins or reuse your favorite packages with very little effort 🐑 🛵.

The author goes deep on why Lambcycle solves a serious problem over on Medium.

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