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Biome and the Future of JavaScript Tooling

aired Jun 18, 2026 · 63.0m
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Clty76.5
Summary

Modern web development requires an ever-growing collection of tools, including formatters, linters, bundlers, and plugins. Biome is an open-source toolchain for web projects that brings formatting and linting together in a single, fast, opinionated tool.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, biome, including: Each tool typically has its own configurations, dependencies, and performance cost.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Modern web development requires an ever-growing collection of tools, including formatters, linters, bundlers, and plugins
  2. 02In this episode, Emma joins Josh Goldberg to discuss the history of Biome, how linters and formatters work under the hood, what makes Biome's architecture fundamentally different f
  3. 03He is also the author of the O'Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and a co-founder of SquiggleConf, a conference for excellent web develop
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