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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

The Deno runtime

Deno provides a set of functions that are included in the runtime as globals in the Deno namespace. The runtime APIs are documented at https://doc.deno.land/ and can be used to do the most elementary, low-level things.

Two types of functions are available on Deno without any imports: Web APIs and the Deno namespace. Whenever there's a behavior in Deno that also exists on the browser, Deno mimics the browser APIs – those are Web APIs. Since you come from the JavaScript world, you're probably familiar with most of them. We're speaking about functions such as fetch, addEventListener, setTimeout, and objects such as window, Event, console, among others.

Code written using Web APIs can be bundled and run in the browser with no transformations.

The other big part of the APIs exposed by the runtime lives inside a global namespace named Deno. You can use the REPL and the documentation, two of the things we explored in Chapter 2, The Toolchain...