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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

Chapter 4: Building a Web Application

Here we are! We have traveled down a long road to get here. This is where all the fun starts. We've been through three phases: getting to know what Deno is, exploring the toolchain provided by it, and understanding the details and functionality available via its runtime.

Pretty much all the content from the previous chapters will prove to be useful in this one. Hopefully, the introductory chapters made you feel confident enough to start applying what we have learned together. We'll use those chapters, together with your existing TypeScript and JavaScript knowledge, to build a complete web application.

We'll be writing an API that contains business logic, handles authentication, authorization, and logging, and much more. We will cover enough of the fundamental pieces for you to, at the end, feel comfortable choosing Deno to build your next great app.

In this chapter, instead of talking just about Deno, we will also go over...