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Clack: A Modern Keyboard Shortcut Library Written in TypeScript — Looks like a fairly intuitive and simple API and also has a React version.

Seafox: A Fast Spec-Compliant JavaScript Parser Written in Typescript — Generates AST according to the ESTree AST format, and can be used to perform syntactic analysis of JavaScript code.

Code Tour: VS Code Extension to Record and Playback Guided Code Walkthroughs — This looks really promising for teams that want to help new hires get familiar with certain features of a codebase, essentially replacing actual training sessions.

Rome: A New Experimental JavaScript Toolchain from Facebook — Includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, and testing framework (these are all new and not existing tools) and aims to be a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript code. It comes from Sebastian McKenzie, one of the creators of both Babel and Yarn.

Electron React Boilerplate 1.0: A Foundation for Scalable Cross-Platform Apps — Brings together Electron (the popular cross-platform desktop app development toolkit) with React, Redux, React Router, webpack and React Hot Loader. v1.0 completes its migration to TypeScript.

Hex Engine: A Modern 2D Game Engine for the Browser — Still in early development. A TypeScipt- and Canvas-based game engine designed to feel similar to React.

Lazy Loading Components in Angular 9 — Have you ever wanted to lazy load an Angular component? Here is a technique you can use with Angular 9.

Destiny: A 'Prettier' for File Structures — Scans a folder’s contents, creating a graph based on how the JS/TS files import each other, moving files as needed, then builds a “prettified” file structure. Not sure I’m a fan but it’s an interesting idea.

Vendure: A Headless GraphQL E-commerce Framework — Built on Node, Nest and TypeScript. The idea is you’d use this for the backend, then implement the front-end of your store however you prefer.

The Best Way to Build Reactive Sub-Forms with Angular — Learn how to extract repetitive sub-form implementations into standalone, robust and type safe components.

EPANET-JS: Model A Water Distribution Network in JavaScript — This certainly seems like the real deal, but the creator is quick to note that it’s “extremely niche as I don’t suspect there will be many engineers simulating water networks”. Hmm.

BLAKE3 Hashing for JavaScript: Native Node Binding and WebAssembly — BLAKE3 is a Merkle-tree based cryptographic hash function (originally implemented in Rust) that’s fast, secure, and highly parallelizable.

Is TypeScript Worth It? — “I would like the jury to know that I am, for the most part, a TypeScript fan but I do have some nagging doubts that I would like to discuss in this post..”

FeathersJS/Hooks: Async Middleware for JavaScript and TypeScript — Koa-style middleware for any async functions for creating composable and reusable workflows and adding functionality without having to change a function or class’s original code.

1. The TypeScript Tax: A Cost vs Benefit Analysis — As much as we love JavaScript, this was really a strong year for TypeScript, with it seeming to become the de facto way to bring strong typing to JavaScript. Back in January, Eric Elliott asked "is it worth it?" and presented some critical, data-driven analysis to establish its viability. It was your most clicked link of 2019.