737: JSR: The New TypeScript Package Registry (NPM Killer)

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Get ready to learn all about the JSR package registry with Wes, Scott, and special guest Luca Casonato of Deno, as they discuss its benefits, share insights on when to use it, and teasing some secret features that promise to enhance your coding journey. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:37 Brought to you by sentry.io. 00:51 Who is Luca Casonato? 01:18 Why do we need another package registry? Wes Bos Tweet 04:35 Is it ESM only? 06:08 What exactly is JSR? 07:22 How do you install things from this registry? 09:38 NPM specifier in NodeJS? 12:18 Why can’t we just fix NPM? 14:28 When you make things easier, people make cooler stuff. 17:49 A little bit about auto-documentation. 21:18 Auto-Types. 22:33 Can’t you just put TypeScript files on an NPM? 24:04 Package Provenance. NPM Package Provenance 25:14 Does JSR have any plans for scanning dependencies? 27:56 GitHub action integration. 30:08 Does JSR replace url imports in Deno? Import Maps, Ep.596 32:15 What about publishing JSX, TSX, CSS, WASM, etc? 34:16 What are Slow Types? 36:34 Do you think we’ll ever see another implementation of a TypeScript type checker? 38:23 Types as comments or adding types to JavaScript. 40:10 What is the anticipated timeline? 41:52 Are there any parts of TypeScript that you don’t like? 43:32 What about when TypeScript breaks? 46:20 JSR community funding. 49:39 Are you planning on pre-registering popular names? 52:26 Super secret new features! 56:39 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Luca: Hono Shameless Plugs Luca: jsr.io Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to syntax today. We're talking about JSR. Is it the new
0:05.4	NPM? Is it a new package registry? Pretty excited to talk about it. A lot of
0:11.1	opinions flying on what it is. So we have Lucas
0:15.4	Casanato on today who is a software engineer at Dino.
0:19.4	Dino is the folks behind JSR and a member of TC39 so obviously knows a lot about
0:26.2	JavaScript and a lot has a lot of thoughts and whatnot behind the whole package
0:31.3	ecosystem in JavaScript.
0:33.0	So welcome, Luca, thank you so much for coming on.
0:35.6	Thank you so much for having me.
0:37.0	And also if you're asking questions of your code,
0:39.6	like, hey, why did this bug happen?
0:42.0	Maybe you want to have a tool like Century on your side.
0:45.2	Head on over to Century.io. slash syntax.
0:48.8	Sign up and you'll get two months for free.
0:50.8	You want to give us a quick rundown of, I know I gave a little intro, but give us a little bit more
0:57.3	info.
0:58.3	Yeah, so JSR is a new JavaScript registry that we're working on built for modern JavaScript, for
1:05.2	typescript, for any runtime that wants to use it backwards compatible with node and
1:10.4	n p m p m yeah just all my better experience for publishers of packages for
1:15.6	users of packages. Yeah. That's awesome and we're going to go into all of the benefits of it.
1:25.0	But I think what most people are tuning into here is,
1:30.0	even since I posted it for the first time is,
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