July 7, 2023, 10:39 a.m.
Deno July Update: faster web servers in 1.35, templates in Deno Deploy, and more
Deno News
Hey everyone! We're experimenting with a new format for these newsletters, aiming for a monthly cadence.
This issue covers Deno 1.35, quick start templates on Deno Deploy, Fresh 1.2, the Deno KV hackathon, and more.
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Simplified, performant web servers in Deno 1.35
Deno 1.35 stabilizes Deno.serve() so you can start a performant, secure web server in a single line:
Deno.serve(req => new Response("Hello world"));
This release also adds support for highly anticipated npm packages, such as aws-sdk, astro, puppeteer, redis, and more.
Quick start templates in Deno Deploy
Host your next project on Deno Deploy faster than ever with ready made templates such as a full-stack Fresh app, Oak web server, and more.
Fresh 1.2 comes with a full-time maintainer
With the added ability to state between islands, new limited npm support, and a Preact/server-side frameworks expert as a full-time maintainer, the future of Fresh is brighter than ever.
Read the full announcement or watch the video →
From the Community
Deno KV Hackathon
We held a Deno KV Hackathon, a full week of livestreams and coding, and received 29 submissions. Some of the winning projects include KV chopper, Notifire, Reddino, Crux X, and Stone Bone and Cone.
Community #Showcase
Everyday there’s a new website, framework, or library built with Deno. Here’s a (very incomplete) list of projects.
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Single-player version of Battleship |
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detris is a feature-rich, server-side implementation of Tetris written in Deno with Deno KV |
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A thin wrapper to @testing-library/preact for testing a Fresh application |
For more projects (or if you’d like to share yours), join the Discord’s #showcase channel.
Other Deno updates
The Deno team shipped a ton of other resources this month. Check them out below:
- It's 2023 — time to say ❌ to CommonJS
- Announcing SOC2 Compliance
- State of Edge Functions 2023: The Year of Globally Distributed Apps — we surveyed nearly 1,000 developers and here's what we learned.
- Deno Deploy now supports statically analyzable dynamic imports
- deployctl 1.7.0, the CLI tool for Deno Deploy
- deno_kv_oauth — the easiest way to setup OAuth 2.0 with Deno and Deno KV
- How to build a CRUD API with Oak and Deno KV — a simple tutorial that covers everything from pagination, secondary indexes, and atomicity about Deno KV