The big news in the past two weeks is the v1.0 release of Fresh! It uses SSR, just-in-time rendering, and island-based hydration, with no build step. Here are some reactions from Twitter:

Everyone: our builds got 50% faster@deno_land: we have no builds

🔥🔥🔥

— Adrián Mato 🐙 (@adrianmg) June 28, 2022

okay, @deno_land's new web framework "fresh" is actually so clean

I need to build something nowww

— Tomasz Zdanowski (@tzdanows) June 30, 2022

You had me at "zero JS by default":https://t.co/C6A1VDD5Fh

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) June 15, 2022

And if you haven't checked out Fresh, here's a 3min recap video from the one and only Fireship.

Articles and Resources

Announcing Fresh v1.0 — Luca Casonato — Deno's official announcement about Fresh v1.0 with examples to get started.

NEW FRAMEWORK Makes Remix And NextJS Feel Slow?? Fresh by Deno is FAST (Youtube) — Theo - ping.gg — In this 28min video, Theo explains Deno, SSR/SSG (with diagrams!), and how Fresh works.

How to Fresh (Youtube) — Coding with Robby — An excellent 20 min introduction to building a website with Fresh.

wasmbuild - Using Rust in Deno and Web Apps — David Sherret — wasmbuild is a module that enables developers to build Rust for Deno or the Web with only Rust's toolchain and Deno installed, meaning less setup steps for your contributors.

Deno でコマンドラインツールを雑に作ったので感想 — sosukesuzuki — Prettier maintainer gives his first impressions on Deno.

Fresh: The Next-Gen JavaScript Web Framework — Harsh Singh — A brief, but insightful overview of Fresh's features, such as SSR, JIT rendering, and island-based hydration.

Code and Tools

• Deno v1.23.2 — Minor bug fixes and FFI improvements.
• bebo — Run Clojure scripts on Deno.
• http_response_helpers — Simple helper functions to create Fetch API Response objects.
• fast — A fast, minimal web framework in less than 200 LOC.
• r2d2 — Simple, lightweight Redis client library for Deno.
• zipland — Serve file server with single zip file as file system in Deno.
• atlas_sdk —A type–safe MongoDB Atlas SDK for Deno.
• hono — A web framework for Cloudflare Workers, but with the recent v1.6 release, now supports Deno.
• crayon — A terminal-styling module written in TypeScript.
• fortuna — A weighted gacha system.
• piwo — A command line HTTP client written in Deno.
• deno_python — Python interpreter bindings for Deno.
• webview_deno — New release v0.7.3 fixes the pre-built executables for Linux in addition to adding support for the Apple M1 platform.
• mock-file — A synchronous file system API polyfill for Deno Deploy.
• emoji — A utility module for all things emoji.

Odds and Ends

• Why a dinosaur is running my JavaScript code?
• Bundle any Deno module on the fly into standard JS module.
• Nick Taylor interviews Luca Casonato about Deno and Fresh (Youtube).

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-- Andy