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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 future and community

The Deno community is growing rapidly—it is full of people who are excited about it and eager to help it grow. As you start using it, as you did throughout the course of this book, there will be very important contributions you can add to it. This could be a bug you've encountered, a feature that makes sense to you, or just something that you want to understand better.

For you to be part of that, I'd recommend you joining Deno's Discord channel (https://discord.gg/deno). This is a very active place where you can find other people interested in Deno and is useful if you want to find package authors, build packages yourself, or help with Deno Core. From my experience, I can only say that everyone I have met there is very friendly and eager to help. It's also a great way of keeping updated on what's happening.

Another way to contribute is by following Deno's repositories on GitHub (https://github.com/denoland...