Vitest 5, rslib 1.0, and the No Sloptober Challenge | News | Ep 80

News for the week of Aug 31, 2026: Vitest 5's new doctor command and perf enhancements, Rslib is now stable, and Astro 7.3 lets you run multiple preview servers at once. From the community: build circuit boards in React, TypeScript for Ruby devs, and another compile-time crime of implementing Brainf*** in TypeScript types.

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Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to the Show

(05:51) - Personal Challenge: No Sloptober

(10:53) - Tooling: Strongly-typed Normalized File Paths in the TS Codebase

(13:05) - Tooling: Ember for TS 7 Declared Ready

(14:23) - Tooling: Bun 1.4.1 Now Types Import Attributes in TS 7.1 Nightly