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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

Deno's roadmap

A lot has changed since the first time Ryan presented Deno on JSConf; a few big steps have been taken. With the first stable version of the runtime being launched the community exploded, and many people from other JavaScript communities joined in with many enthusiastic ideas.

Deno's core team is currently putting much of its efforts into pushing Deno forward. This contribution not only happens in the form of code, issues, and helping people, but also in planning and delineating what the next steps are.

For the short-term roadmap, the core team makes sure that it is tracking initiatives. The following two issues raised on GitHub have been used to track 2020's Q4 and 2021's Q1 efforts:

If you have a detailed look at these, you can follow every discussion, code, and decision that has been made regarding those features. I'll list some...