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Deno Web Development

By : Alexandre Portela dos Santos
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Deno Web Development

By: Alexandre Portela dos Santos

Overview of this book

Deno is a JavaScript and TypeScript runtime with secure defaults and a great developer experience. With Deno Web Development, you'll learn all about Deno's primitives, its principles, and how you can use them to build real-world applications. The book is divided into three main sections: an introduction to Deno, building an API from scratch, and testing and deploying a Deno application. The book starts by getting you up to speed with Deno's runtime and the reason why it was developed. You'll explore some of the concepts introduced by Node, why many of them transitioned into Deno, and why new features were introduced. After understanding Deno and why it was created, you will start to experiment with Deno, exploring the toolchain and writing simple scripts and CLI applications. As you progress to the second section, you will create a simple web application and then add more features to it. This application will evolve from a simple 'hello world' API to a web application connected to the database, with users, authentication, and a JavaScript client. In the third section, the book will take you through topics such as dependency management, configuration and testing, finishing with an application deployed in a cloud environment. By the end of this web development book, you will become comfortable with using Deno to create, maintain, and deploy secure and reliable web applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Familiar with Deno
5
Section 2: Building an Application
10
Section 3: Testing and Deploying

Building and running the application in Heroku

As we mentioned when the chapter started, our initial objective was to have an easy, automated, and replicable way to deploy the application. In the previous section, we created our container image that will work as a basis for that. The next step is to create the pipeline that builds and deploys our code anytime there's an update. We'll use git as our source of truth and mechanism to trigger the pipeline builds.

The platform where we'll deploy our code is Heroku. This is a platform that aims to simplify tasks for developers and companies in the deployment process by providing a set of tools that removes common obstacles, such as provisioning machines and setting up big CI infrastructures. By using a platform such as this, we can be more focused on the application and on Deno, which is the purpose of this book.

Here, we'll use the Dockerfile that we previously created and set it up so that it is deployed and...