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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

Setting up the environment

One of Deno's principles is to keep its single single executable as complete as possible. This decision, among others, dramatically facilitates the installation step. In this section, we'll install VS Code and the recommended plugins and learn how to install Deno on different systems.

Installing Deno

In the next few pages, we'll learn how to install Deno. To make sure everything written in this book runs smoothly, we'll be using version 1.7.5.

This is one of the rare parts of this book where things might differ, depending on your operating system. After the installation is complete, it doesn't make a difference how you installed Deno.

Let's get practical and install Deno on our machines. The following bullet points show you how to install the runtime on different operating systems:

  • Shell (Mac, Linux):
    $ curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/install/install.sh | sh -s v1.7.5
  • PowerShell (Windows):
    $v="1.7.5...