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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

Formatting and linting

Linting and formatting are two capacities considered crucial for maintaining consistency and enforcing good practices in any code base. With this in mind, Deno has embedded the tools to enable both in its CLI. We'll get to know them in this section.

Formatting

To format Deno's code, the CLI provides the fmt command. This is an opinionated formatter that aims to solve any questions regarding code formatting. The main goal is for developers to not have to care about the format of their code – not when writing code nor when reviewing pull requests.

Running the following command with no argument formats all the files in the current directory:

$ deno fmt
/Users/alexandre/Deno-Web-Development/Chapter02/my-first-deno-program.js
/Users/alexandre/Deno-Web-Development/Chapter02/bundle.js

If we want to format a single file, we can send it as an argument.

To check files for formatting errors, we can use this together with the --check flag...