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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

Summary

And we're pretty much done! This chapter completes the cycle of development phases in our application by deploying it. We went from building a very simple application, to adding features to it, to adding tests, and—finally—to deploying it.

Here, we learned how we can use some of the benefits of containerization in our applications. We started learning about Docker, our container runtime of choice, and rapidly moved on to creating an image for our application. Learning about some Docker commands as we moved through the process, we also experienced how easy it is to prepare a Deno application to be deployed.

Creating this Docker image enabled us to have a replicable way of installing, running, and distributing our application, creating a package with everything the applications needs.

As the chapter proceeded, we started to explore how we can use this application package to deploy it in a cloud environment. We started by configuring the cloud platform...