Type-Fest is a valuable npm package offering a curated collection of essential TypeScript types, designed to enhance developer productivity and code clarity. Comparing versions 0.7.1 and 0.8.0 reveals subtle but impactful updates. The newer version, 0.8.0, released on September 16, 2019, shows an increase in file count and unpacked size compared to version 0.7.1 released on August 3, 2019, suggesting expanded functionality and type definitions.
A key difference lies in the updated development dependencies. Version 0.8.0 utilizes newer versions of @typescript-eslint/parser (2.2.0 vs 1.10.2), eslint-config-xo-typescript (0.18.0 vs 0.14.0), and @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin (2.2.0 vs 1.9.0). These updates imply improvements in code linting, parsing, and overall TypeScript code quality checks. For developers, this means benefitting from more robust tooling and potentially fewer errors during development.
If you use Type-Fest in your projects it can enhance your type safety and provide pre-built generic types, saving you time and effort in defining common type manipulation utilities. The increased size of version 0.8.0 hints at the addition of new helpful types. The update of the linter tooling suggests the code in the new version is better tested and compliant. The bump of versions indicates overall improvements and may offer a smoother development experience.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 0.8.0 of the package type-fest