Welcome to Deno Newsletter issue #34!
Every week we serve you with a bunch of useful information and links for every Deno enthusiast.
Useful links:
- deno.land - official Deno website
- deno.land/x - module registry
- gitter.im/denolife/Lobby - where Deno devs hang out
- denoland/deno - main repository
- denoland/deno_std - standard library repository
- denoland/registry - module registry repository
- denolib/awesome-deno - Deno Awesome List
- twitter.com/deno_land - official Deno Twitter account
- twitter.com/DenoNews - official Deno Newsletter Twitter account
Release
[tweet https://twitter.com/deno_land/status/1172640661960626177]
Last week Deno v0.18.0 was released.
Important changes to Deno
- build: remove tools/build.py; cargo build is the build frontend now (#2865, #2874, #2876)
- feat: Set user agent for http client (#2916)
- fix: implement bodyUsed in fetch (#2877)
- fix: basing in URL constructor (#2867, #2921)
- fix: Default 'this' to window in EventTarget (#2918)
- fix: Expose the DOM Body interface globally (#2903)
- fix: make 'deno fmt' faster (#2928)
- fix: path normalization in resolve_from_cwd() (#2875)
- fix: remove deprecated Deno.platform (#2895)
- fix: type directives import (#2910)
- upgrade: V8 7.9.8 (#2907)
Important changes to standard library
- perf: Improve prettier speed by adding d.ts files (deno_std#591)
- upgrade: prettier to 1.18.2 (deno_std#592)
- feat: Add xeval (deno_std#581)
- fix(flags): Parse builtin properties (deno_std#579)
- fix(uuid): Make it v4 rfc4122 compliant (deno_std#580)
Full list of changes can be found here
Talks
[tweet https://twitter.com/DenoNews/status/1171699518422900736] [tweet https://twitter.com/DenoNews/status/1173576880026521600]
Denobook
Japanese Deno community is working on Denobook2!
It's beautifully illustrated with plethora of Dinos, show them some love!
[tweet https://twitter.com/sasurau4/status/1171460141763325964]
Resources
Heroku Buildpack for Deno
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more news next week!
- Bartek