Deno Deploy, a serverless service for running JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly applications at the edge, has moved closer to general availability with the release of Beta 4, which includes a paid service plan. General availability of Deno Deploy is eyed Read more…
Deno is championed as a more-secure alternative to the popular Node.js JavaScript runtime. The 1.0 version of the Deno runtime, which leverages the V8 JavaScript engine and was built using Rust, arrived in May 2020. Node.js founder Ryan Dahl even Read more…
A recent upgrade to Deno, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime positioned as a rival to Node.js, improves performance for transpiling, type checking, and more, proponents say. Prior to the Deno 1.24 release, Deno internally converted TypeScript code to JavaScript using the TypeScript Read more…
In this article, you’ll learn about Node.js and Deno, the differences between CommonJS and ECMAScript modules, using TypeScript with Deno, and faster deployments with Deno Deploy. We’ll conclude with notes to help you decide between using Node.js or Deno for Read more…
Changes are in the offing for the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime, with plans afoot to make it easier to import NPM packages and to enable most of them to work in Deno. The project’s developers also aim to make Deno the Read more…
#452 — September 1, 2022 Read on the Web Tinybench: A Tiny and Simple Benchmarking Library — No dependencies, but uses whatever precise timing capabilities are available (e.g. 1process.hrtime ). You can then benchmark whatever functions you want, specify how Read more…
#451 — August 25, 2022 Read on the Web Crawlee: A New Web Scraping / Automation Library — It’s always neat to see a new project launched with some fanfare. Crawlee gets a ▶️ 3-minute introductory screencast, a launch post, Read more…
Notable changes bootstrap: implement run-time user-land snapshots via –build-snapshot and –snapshot-blob This patch introduces 1–build-snapshot and 1–snapshot-blob options for creating and using user land snapshots. To generate a snapshot using snapshot.js as an entry point and write the snapshot blob Read more…
Changes are in the offing for the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime, with plans afoot to make it easier to import NPM packages and to enable most of them to work in Deno. The project’s developers also aim to make Deno the Read more…
Notable Changes Experimental command-line argument parser API Adds 1util.parseArgs helper for higher level command-line argument parsing. Contributed by Benjamin Coe, John Gee, Darcy Clarke, Joe Sepi, Kevin Gibbons, Aaron Casanova, Jessica Nahulan, and Jordan Harband – #42675 Experimental ESM Loader Read more…
