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

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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Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
• (06:32) - Tooling: TypeScript 7.1 API Feature Roadmap
• (11:34) - Metaframeworks: Astro 7.2 Introduces Experimental Incremental Static Builds
• (12:44) - Metaframeworks: Sweltering Updates in SvelteKit 3 Preview
• (14:14) - Web: Cloudflare Open Sources an Issue Triage Agent
• (18:16) - Web: GitHub Now Supports Stacked Pull Requests
• (22:24) - Library Watch: zodql, Enforce Zod Schemas for GraphQL
• (24:11) - Library Watch: TanStack Form v2 is in Alpha
• (26:17) - Library Watch: TanStack Table V9
• (28:08) - Library Watch: is-kit Lets You Build Your Own Type Guards
• (29:23) - Library Watch: typesafe-ts is Like a Toned Down Effect
• (31:14) - Library Watch: antiox, Rust-like Async Primitives for TypeScript
• (33:08) - Library Watch: apiful, a Fetch Client You Compose
• (33:53) - Community: Andrew Healey Adds Go's defer Keyword to TypeScript
• (36:24) - Community: Mastodon Upgrades to TypeScript 7
• (36:57) - Community: Next.js on How They Made Navigations Instant in v0
• (39:14) - Community: Mauro Bieg on How to Build a TypeScript Web Framework With No Build Step
• (39:52) - Community: Sam Rose Found a Bug in Kubernetes Thanks to Webernetes
• (41:35) - Community: afox.dev Releases Luna.nvim, a Minimal Neovim Theme
• (42:32) - Community: Silvenon's Oxlint Config to Eradicate any in Your Codebase
• (43:23) - Bleet of the Week
• (44:21) - Cool Link: tuicr Lets You View Side-by-Side PR Diffs in Your Terminal
• (46:12) - Cool Link: Green Building Advisor
• (48:17) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

• TypeScript: API feature roadmap #4830 - microsoft/typescript-go 
• Astro 7.2 brings incremental static builds
• What’s new in Svelte: August 2026
• Cloudflare: How we built a software factory to drive Astro’s GitHub issue count to zero 
• GitHub: ICYMI, Stacked pull requests 

Library Watch

• zodql: Enforce Zod schemas for your GraphQL
  • Plus: https://github.com/enormora/schema-hub 
  • Plus: gql.tada 
• TanStack Forms v2: Form v2 is here: All you need to know about the alpha
• TanStack Table v9: Announcing TanStack Table V9 
• is-kit: Build isThingy style type guards
• typesafe-ts (via Allan Duetsch): Runtime typesafety helpers
• antiox: Rust like async primitives for Typescript
• apiful: a fetch client you compose

From the Community

• Andrew Healey: Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler
• Mastodon: Now written in TS7 
• Next: Making Navigations Instant in v0 
• Mauro Bieg: A TypeScript web framework with no build step
• Sam Rose: Found a bug in kubernetes
• Luna.nvim: Minimal colorscheme for TS 
• Matija Marohnić: Eradicate as any with oxlint 
• Bleet of the Week

Cool Links

• GitHub - agavra/tuicr: a code review TUI with vim keybindings ("tweaker")
• Green Building Advisor for all your high-performance building needs
• Discord: Kamran's backyard studio build thread

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)