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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

Permissions

We came across Deno's permissions for the first time a few pages ago when we wrote our first HTTP server. At the time, we had to give our script permission to access the network. Since then, we've used them a few times without knowing too much about how they work.

In this section, we'll explore how permissions work. We'll learn what permissions exist and how to configure them.

If we run deno run --help, we get the help output for the run command, which is where, among other things, certain permissions are listed. To make this easier for you, we will list all the existing permissions and provide a brief explanation of each.

-A, --allow-all

This disables all permission checks. Running code with this flag means it will have access to everything the user has, quite similar to what happens with Node.js by default.

Be careful when you run code with this, and be especially careful when the code is not yours.

--allow-env

This grants access...