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What is Deno?

Deno is a simple, modern, and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.

If you are familiar with Node.js, the server-side JavaScript framework, then Deno should be a no brainer for you. Deno is also a server-side JavaScript framework except that it has been improved in many ways.

The list of features that Deno offers are:

  • Built around modern JavaScript features
  • It has an extensive standard library
  • It has first-class TypeScript support. This brings a huge advantage in many different ways such as you don’t have to separately compile TypeScript, it’s automatically done by Deno.
  • Secure by default. No file, network, or environment access, unless explicitly enabled.
  • It has no package manager
  • It has a first-class await
  • It as a built-in testing facility
  • It aims to be browser-compatible as much as it can, for example by providing a built-in fetch and the global window object
  • Ships only a single executable file.

After using Deno, Node.js looks like old school. Especially because the Node.js API is callback-based, as it was written way before promises and async/await. There’s no change in place for that in Node, as such a change would be monumental, so we’re stuck to callbacks or to promisifying API calls. Node.js is awesome and will continue to be the de facto standard in the JavaScript world.

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