Astro DB Gets Enum Support, Type-safe Data Flow in Next.js, and a Moose-y ORM | News | Ep 31

News of the week of August 11, 2025: there ain't much! Astro 5.13 minor release brings enums to Astro DB and improved meta environment variables. From the community: learning web dev, Result-typing Next.js server actions, and Clickhouse built an ORM.


Chapters




• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show



• (05:07) - News: Astro 5.13 Adds import.meta.env and Astro DB Enum Support



• (06:47) - Community Highlight: Dr. Axel's Learning Web Dev Series



• (07:47) - Community Highlight: Type-safe Data Flow Between Client and Server in Next.js by Nahuel Scotti



• (08:45) - Community Highlight: Clickhouse Made an OLAP ORM with TS



• (11:25) - Cool Link: nextra, a Next.js Static Site Generator



• (11:50) - Cool Link: editly, Non-linear Video Editing in Node.js and ffmpeg



• (12:33) - Cool Links: A Bunch of Excalibur Games!



• (14:36) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye


News
• Astro 5.13 (https://astro.build/blog/astro-5130/)  

From the Community

• Dr. Axel’s Blog Series on Learning Web Dev (https://2ality.com/2025/08/learning-w...)
• Nahuel Scotti: Type-Safe data flow between client & server in Next.js applications (https://blog.singuerinc.com/2025-08-1...)
• Clickhouse: Does OLAP need an ORM? (https://clickhouse.com/blog/moosestac...)  
• Plus, listen to our ORMed and Dangerous (https://typescript.fm/7)  (Ep 7) deep dive episode!

 


Cool Stuff





• More Excalibur Games!
• https://daviderisaliti.itch.io/spooky...
• https://daviderisaliti.itch.io/quadrush 
• https://mookie4242.itch.io/zombie-sho...
• Nextra (https://nextra.site) – a Next.js static site generator with some built-in gizmos 
• editly (https://www.npmjs.com/package/editly) – non-linear video editing with Node.js and ffmpeg

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js (https://excaliburjs.com/?utm_source=t...) is the friendly TypeScript game engine for making 2D web games. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, and particles. Design your assets with tools like Aseprite and Tiled, then load them natively using first-party plugins.


Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (https://kubbi.bandcamp.com/track/seah...) (Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/38dW2...) )