Deno Newsletter #34 - v0.18.0

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

chibat/heroku-buildpack-deno

Heroku Buildpack for Deno

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more news next week!

- Bartek