Shoutout to Dunkan for creating this!
It’s been a busy two weeks! We announced our $21M series A raise, released v1.23, and added two showcase apps to our Deno Deploy page.
Articles and Resources
Deno raises $21M — Ryan Dahl — We're excited to continue to build the best modern developer experience in our runtime and isolate cloud infrastructure.
“An Introduction to Deno for Node.js Developers” (JSNation 2022) — Colin Ihrig — Colin dives into the similarities and differences between Node and Deno, and gives an introduction into using Deno.
Deno v1.23 — Deno Authors — Removed type-checking by default, --watch now watches dynamic imports, plus more. (Or check out this 60 second video recap.)
Toying with Deno. Making a … Game Engine? — Jorge Romero — Love seeing the community use Deno in new ways, like this walkthrough on building a desktop game engine with Three.js and Webview. Source here.
Getting Started with Deno (Japanese) — Yoshiya Hinozawa — A very thorough Japanese guide to setting up a web server with database access using Deno.
Code and Tools
- sqlf — Fast pgSQL generation for Deno.
- neko — A frame buffer deno module built on top of minifb with canvas api implementation and a webgpu renderer.
- axiom-deno — Easily send events from Deno to Axiom.
- ts-serve — Middleware to transpile TypeScript on the fly and deliver it from your server as ES Modules.
- duration.js — A single Class library to parse and format units of time with zero dependencies.
- cjs — A Deno implementation to create variables like
__dirnameand__filenamein Node.js. - fast — A minimalist web framework for Deno.
- roman.js — Convert numbers to Roman numerals, because why not.
- atom-ide-deno v1.26.0 — The final release for Deno support in the Atom IDE (RIP).
- neptune — A rigid body library loosely ported from Matter.js.
Odds and Ends
- Remix with Deno?! Check out this example that has "no compile step".
- Want the option to remove semi-colons in
deno fmt? Here’s a patch. - Eduardo Bouças of Netlify joins Scott and Wes to talk about edge functions with Deno and the future of web in this Syntax.fm podcast episode.
- Our Deno Deploy page now features two showcase apps: Ryan’s blog and a chatroom. (An ecommerce store and a Calendly clone are coming soon!)
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