Me: I really need to launch the things I’m building with Kitten¹ this year.

Also me: You know what would be sweet? If I added an introspection API to make working with the Kitten Shell (REPL)² easier.

(It is going to be sweet though. Prototyping it in the REPL now and I’ll record a little demo when I’m done and it’s released. It’s going to make examining and affecting the state of the client from the server interactively even easier.)

¹ kitten.small-web.org
² kitten.small-web.org/tutorials…

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🥳 New @small-web/kitten (Kitten globals) release.

• Improved type information.
• Now plays nice with tsconfig.json and tsc.
• Adds `rawBody` to `KittenRequest`.

This is not really a breaking change (in that it won’t break your apps) but I’m releasing it as a major version update so as not to surprise you if you notice the type information is different (more detailed than before).

To update in your kitten apps:
npm install @small-web/kitten@7

For more information on how to use this module, see the Kitten Type Safety tutorial:
kitten.small-web.org/tutorials…

Full change log:
codeberg.org/kitten/globals/sr…

Enjoy!

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globals/CHANGELOG.md at main

globals - Type-safe Kitten globals.

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🥳 New Kitten¹ Release

• Adds `rawBody` to non-multipart POST requests.

This property, which is a Buffer, is necessary if you want to verify signatures (e.g., for webhooks).

I had to fork express-busboy as they already ruled out adding it. The fork (@small-web/kitten-busboy²) also allowed me to type the middleware extension point for Polka³ instead of Express (Kitten uses Polka) so that’s one @ts-ignore removed (hey, dev is a string of little wins) :)

Change log: codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/br…

Caught a bug and feeling a little under the weather at the moment (nothing major, mom and dad – no need to worry) so apologies if I’m not responsive here.

Enjoy!

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¹ kitten.small-web.org
² codeberg.org/kitten/busboy
³ github.com/lukeed/polka

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app/CHANGELOG.md at main

app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

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