#typescript

#typescript

Annotate Image is a JavaScript image annotation library that creates Flickr-style comment annotations on images. You can draw rectangular regions on any image and attach interactive hotspots and notes to those regions. Version 2.0 is a complete TypeScript rewrite that works standalone with vanilla JavaScript or integrates with jQuery, React, and Vue. It's ideal for building photo galleries, design review tools, or any application requiring collaborative image markup.

Microsoft has released the TypeScript 6.0 beta, marking the end of an era. This will be the final version built on JavaScript, as TypeScript 7.0 shifts to a Go-based implementation for dramatically improved performance. TypeScript 6.0 serves as a transition release. It is intended to prepare developers for the architectural changes coming in 7.0. Microsoft announced last year its plan to rewrite the TypeScript compiler and language service in Go, leveraging native code speed and shared-memory multi-threading.

SCAYLE is one of the fastest-growing enterprise commerce platforms worldwide, empowering leading B2C brands and retailers to create outstanding customer experiences with one unified backend. Our headless and composable architecture follows an API-first approach and is constantly extended with new features to stay ahead of industry standards. With a versatile tech stack including PIM, Shop-Management, Checkout, and OMS, as well as advanced capabilities like internationalisation, omnichannel, and marketplace enablement, SCAYLE offers everything modern commerce needs.

At the core of oRPC's design philosophy is what the team calls "powerful simplicity." Developers can define API endpoints with a syntax that feels similar to writing standard functions, while automatically gaining production features like OpenAPI specification generation, server action compatibility, and contract-first workflow support. The library supports multiple schema validators out of the box, including Zod, Valibot, and ArkType, without requiring additional configuration.

Ripple is a new open-source front-end framework taking ideas from React, SolidJS, and Svelte into a TypeScript-first, component-oriented, JSX-like compiled language with fine-grained reactivity and scoped CSS. Created by Svelte maintainer Dominic Gannaway, Ripple offers a reactivity system with automatic dependency tracking, and direct DOM updates without a virtual DOM. Ripple aims to support better debugging through AI agents. The following code sample exemplifies many of the core Ripple features:

2025 has undeniably been the year of AI agents. Coming into the year, it was nearly impossible to tune into any conversation in the tech ecosystem without hearing the agent buzzword thrown around. In an attempt to gain my own understanding of this new space, I started reading up on AI, machine learning, and agents. This led me to Mastra, an open-source framework for building AI agents. The best part was that it's built in my go-to language, TypeScript.

🚀 DATATRONiQ is a deep-tech 💪 startup for the Industrial IoT in Germany. Our platform offers a one-stop solution for manufacturing companies to monitor and optimize their machines and processes. Our device management and data acquisition technology generates high-quality data for our AI models deployed on the edge. We value collaboration, honest feedback, and continuous improvement. Sound interesting? We'd love to hear from you!

At ITRS, we make society's critical technology work. Our mission is to deliver automated and holistic IT observability solutions that safeguard critical applications and enable innovation. We are the only monitoring and observability platform designed for the most demanding and regulated industries - trusted by 90% of Tier 1 capital markets firms. We believe when our team thrives, so do our customers.

Our Customer is a Swedish AdTech company that is transforming how publishers and advertisers interact. They provide state-of-the-art self-serve advertising platforms that enable seamless, direct transactions between advertisers and some of the world's largest publishers. Their mission is to make advertising more accessible, automated, and efficient through innovative technology. Together, we serve globally recognized clients such as TripAdvisor, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Opera, Dow Jones, etc.

Zod v4 introduces a series of changes across three key areas: performance, API design, and tooling support. Benchmarks published by the maintainers show 14x faster string parsing, 7x faster array parsing, and 6.5x faster object parsing compared to Zod 3. These improvements are paired with reductions in TypeScript type instantiation, helping projects compile faster in large codebases. Another headline feature in this release is the introduction of @zod/mini, a lightweight distribution weighing just ~1.9 KB gzipped, designed for tree-shakable validation in modern frontend applications.

Having a well-integrated type system that makes sense and gives you optimization potential for memory layouts is generally a good idea.

The core value proposition of TypeScript is an excellent developer experience. As your codebase grows, [...] in many cases TypeScript has not been able to scale up to the very largest codebases.

In JavaScript, functions are considered first-class citizens, allowing them to be passed as parameters, returned from other functions, and assigned to variables.