Microsoft has launched a beta of TypeScript 5.6, an replace to the strongly typed JavaScript variant that disallows nullish and truthy checks on syntax that by no means varies on nullishness or truthiness.

The TypeScript 5.6 beta, which follows final month’s manufacturing launch of TypeScript 5.5, was introduced July 26. TypeScript 5.6 could be accessed via NuGet or via NPM by working the npm set up -D typescript@beta command.

For disallowed nullish and truthy checks, the compiler now errors when it might syntactically decide {that a} truthy or nullish examine will all the time consider in a selected method. Microsoft stated “many, many bugs” may very well be caught this fashion. Some expressions nonetheless are allowed even when truthy or nullish. Particularly, true, false, 0, and 1 are all nonetheless allowed regardless of all the time being truthy or falsy.