Encore for TypeScript Public Beta + Terraform Provider

[marcuskohlberg]

It's been a long time coming, but just in time for Easter it's finally here: Encore for TypeScript is now in Public Beta!

We're soon going to publish an blogpost with details on the design and architecture, but until then here are the key things to know:

• We've built a custom TypeScript runtime in Rust, for truly eye-watering performance! We believe Encore based apps will be some of the most high-performance TypeScript apps around.
• The TypeScript SDK is officially unstable, but we expect most of the remaining work to be additive (not modifying) and it's unlikely there will be breaking changes.
• The TypeScript Beta already supports most of the Encore features you know and love: the local dev dashboard, API docs, tracing, etc.
• We are working toward feature parity with the Go version and expect to get there in the coming weeks. Currently there are a few key features remaining to implement: Caching, Middleware, Configuration, Raw endpoints, and Metadata.

Try it out yourself: Update the CLI encore version update, create a new app encore app create, and select TypeScript. 🚀

• Check out the TypeScript docs
• See some example apps

Share your feedback and bug reports: We're dependent on your feedback to improve Encore, please share your thoughts either by creating an issue here on GitHub or by posting on Slack. ❤️

Introducing: The Encore Terraform Provider

We regularly hear how Encore's approach to infrastructure automation is incredible — for the infrastructure primitives that Encore supports. This is sufficient for the majority of use cases, but when you have a use case that requires additional cloud infrastructure that Encore doesn't (yet) have built-in support for, the experience left something to be desired. To be more specific, since Encore set up the infrastructure automatically it was painful and laborious to reference those resources from Terraform, and required lots of manual work.

To solve that problem we've just released the Encore Terraform Provider that dramatically simplifies the experience of combining Encore-managed cloud infrastructure with additional infrastructure managed by Terraform.

It works by providing Terraform Data Sources for Encore-managed infrastructure resources. The data sources released so far include:

• Services
• SQL Databases
• Pub/Sub topics and subscriptions
• Caches.

These data sources make it easy to retrieve information about the underlying cloud infrastructure that Encore has provisioned, making it that much easier to combine Encore-managed infrastructure with additional infrastructure for when you need it.

For more information on how to use the Encore Terraform Provider, check out the docs!

Thanks to all contributors

🙏 We continue to be overwhelmed by your support, feedback, and suggestions!
Together we're building the future of backend development and we couldn't be more excited.

❤️ As always, we're excited to hear what you think!
Please share your feedback on Slack.

New Contributors 🙌

• @anish749 made their first contribution in Support async functions in for auth generator in TS and JS generated clients #997
• @rewop made their first contribution in Fix User-Agent for generated client in JS and TS #1029
• @sam4llis made their first contribution in docs: fix typo #1065
• @aranw made their first contribution in Update booking-system.md #1057
• @aarongreenlee made their first contribution in docs: corrected typos in tracing.md #1093
• @Akos-T made their first contribution in fix(docs): Fix typos in introduction.md #1085
• @tomassar made their first contribution in Add Clarification about Time Zone Handling in Cron Expressions (Closes #1059) #1061

Full Changelog: v1.31.0...v1.34.7

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