Welcome to Deno Newsletter issue #24!
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Releases
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Last week v0.11.0 was released!
Important changes to Deno:
- feat: add Deno.homeDir() (#2578)
- feat: change Reader interface (#2591) - make sure to update your code to new return value, which is no longer `ReadResult`
- feat: add shell completions (#2577)
- feat: parse CLI flags after script name (#2596)
- fix: normalize Deno.execPath (#2598)
- fix: run blocking function on a different task (#2570)
- fix: return useful error when import path has no ./ (#2605)
- fix: multiple error messages for missing file (#2587)
Important changes to standard library:
- feat: add UUID module (deno_std#479)
- feat: prettier supports reading code from stdin (deno_std#498)
Full list of changes can be found here
Development
There's a lot going on in the repo, here are some pull requests that you might be interested in:
- feat: snapshot creator in Rust (#2617)
- feat: use `cargo build` as main build frontend, incremental builds (#2609)
- feat: dynamic imports (#2510)
- feat: native plugins (#2385)
- feat: YAML module (deno_std#528)
We're also working on rewrite of DenoDir, one of major requirements for 1.0 version. An RFC with proposed implementation is being worked on, I welcome you to take a look and express your opinions.
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more news next week!
- Bartek