Astro 7.2, Stacked Pull Requests, and Eradicating any Using oxlint | News | Ep 77

TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers · Aug 13, 2026 · 1h 3m

News for the week of August 3, 2026: Astro 7.2 adds incremental static builds, SvelteKit 3 preview, and a closer look at TypeScript 7.1 compiler APIs. From the community: build your own "isThingy" type guards, eliminating 'any' types using oxlint, and how it went adding Go's defer keyword to TypeScript.

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