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