At Node Congress, Ryan Dahl gave a keynote that teased Deno 2.0 and Deno KV, both which was met with excitement. We then launched Deno KV on Deploy in closed beta (join the waitlist today). Luca and Heyang also joined me (Andy) this past week for a livestream where we answered questions about and demo'd Deno KV on Deploy by building "Deno Paste".

Articles and Resources

Deno 1.33: Deno 2 is coming — Big updates in 1.33, including flatter deno.json, Deno KV, fewer permission checks, and more. Check out the short video on our YouTube.

Digging into Deno KV — Simon Willison — A nice, detailed look under the hood of Deno KV — the CLI and on Deploy.

A Gentle Introduction to Islands — Andy Jiang — Islands architecture avoids full page hydration to improve end user experience. But how exactly do they work?

A list of Deno resources — This Dot — A collection of featured podcast episodes, blog posts, and tutorials relating to Deno.

Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 3 — The Deno Team — The third installment where we dig into using v8 snapshots to improve startup time. Check out the video demo and the source code.

What every developer should know about the Deno third party module registry — Craig Doremus — An interesting article for module authors on how deno.land/x API ranks popularity.

Deno is the easiest way to author npm packages — Charles Lowell — How to easily publish your packages to both Deno and npm ecosystem.

Tools and Code

• slack/deno-starter-template — templates to help you build Slack apps fast
• danet — more updates to this Nest-inspired Deno-first framework like danet develop and danet start
• ShellGPT — GPT-4 in your terminal.
• service — a simple module for managing system services.
• obsidian 8.0 — a native Deno GraphQL caching solution for client- and server-side modules. More details here.
• dns_sd — A utility module like Bonjour/Zeroconf/Avahi but in Deno.
• pretty-ts-errors — Making TypeScript errors prettier in VSCode.
• windows_service — A module to create Windows services using Deno apps.
• 🍋 fresh_matching — Utilities to match/validate route params for Deno Fresh.
• cicada — Write CI/CD pipelines in TypeScript. Check out this getting started guide here.
• semver-cli — A CLI for common semantic versioning operations.
• cheetah — A blazing fast framework for the modern web.
• 🍋 fresh_layout — Add layouts to your Fresh project.
• deso — A simple router based framework for Deno.
• netsaur — A total rewrite of this machine learning library for Deno.
• Tui 2.0.0 — Improved DX and performance in this module that makes it easy to build Terminal User Interfaces.

Odds and Ends

• A Bluesky firehose app written in Deno.
• An example of a basic stun client for fetching public-facing ip:port with Deno.
• A simple sketch app built on Deno KV by hashrock. The images are monotone and low res to fit into the 2kb max size per entry in Deno KV. Check out the source here.

Are you building with Deno KV? Or using Deno at work? I'd love to hear from you. Hit reply and I'll answer!

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— Andy