Deno Newsletter #14 - CLI changes

Welcome to Deno Newsletter issue #14!

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Releases

Last week we saw two releases:

• v0.3.9
• v0.3.10

Important changes:

• Rename CLI flags to subcommands (#2157, #2212)

`deno --types` is now `deno types`

`deno --prefetch` is now `deno fetch`

`deno --version` is now `deno version`

`deno --help` has new alias `deno help`

• Add Deno.kill(pid, signo) (#2177) - currently Unix only
• Fix shared queue bug (#2033, #2158)
• Fix panic handler (#2188)
• Make Deno and Deno.core non-deletable and non-writeable (#2153)

Changes in standard library:

• Cookie module (#338)
• Testing module now supports Sets in `assert.equals` (#350)
• New file system APIs:

`getFileInfoType` (#341)

`ensureLink` (#353)

`ensureSymlink` (#268)

`readFileStr` (#276)

`writeFileStr` (#340)

Full list of changes can be seen here.

Articles

Getting started with Deno - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 A new runtime for Javascript and Typescript from the founder of Node

Resources

GitHub - crookse/docable

An open-source documentation generator written in TypeScript

GitHub - keroxp/servest

A progressive http server / router for deno

Thanks for reading, see you next week with more news!

- Bartek