State of React Results, TypeScript 5.8, and v0 Upgrades

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It’s only mid-February and already the State of React survey results for 2024 are in! Unsurprisingly Next.js continues to dominate as the most used React-based framework and Tailwind CSS tops the charts when it comes to CSS tools and libraries.

TypeScript 5.8 beta brings TypeScript syntax one step closer to being a first-class citizen in the Node runtime. Node 23.6 unflagged experimental support for running TS files directly, but certain TS constructs like enums, import aliases and a few other things just aren’t supported. TS 5.8 beta introduces the –eraseabeSyntaxOnly flag, which will allow users to only write TS constructs that can be erased from a Node file, and will issue an error if it encounters constructs that can’t be erased cleanly.

Vercel’s AI tool v0 can now import Tailwind config and Figma files. Now, designs begun in Figma can be imported to v0 to refine without the friction of design-to-code translation and custom font weights and colors can be added to directly from a custom Tailwind config file.

News:

• Paige - TypeScript 5.8’s –eraseableSyntaxOnly flag
• Jack - v0 can now import Tailwind config and Figma files
• TJ - State of React 2024 survey results

Bonus News:

• Angular: The Documentary
• Astro 5.2

Fire Starters:

• CSS hanging-punctuation

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - A Man on the Inside TV series
• Jack - Strings of bee lights
• TJ - Heated gloves

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