We launched our Merch Shop! It’s built with Fresh and Shopify’s Storefront API, hosted on Deno Deploy (view source). The GitHub readme shows you how to build your own and a more thorough guide explaining how it works is coming soon.

Articles and Resources

Roll your own JavaScript runtime — Bartek Iwanczuk — Bartek outlines setting up a simple JavaScript runtime that can execute local JS files, read/write files, and has a simplified console API.

Build a Full-stack CRUD App using Deno’s Fresh and Postgres — Yoni Rapoport — A straightforward guide to building a simple Todo app with Remult, Fresh, and Postgres.

Using TypeScript and Web Components without bundling, with Deno — Bruno Bernardino — Bruno discusses the benefits of Deno, TypeScript, and Web Components in his web projects.

State of Deno 2022 (YouTube) — Colin Ihrig — Colin Ihrig discusses the why of Deno, Deno vs. Node, Deno's architecture, its tooling and features, and more in this talk.

Fetching data using Deno Fresh Web Framework - It’s Hyper Fast (YouTube) — Eric David Smith — Through building a website, Eric shows how performant Deno and Fresh are, right out of the box.

Code and Tools

• fltr-link — Super simple URL shortener powered by Deno and Supabase.
• deno-ffigen — This tool creates typesafe bindings from C libraries to Deno (and the companion blog post explaining how it works).
• deno_tui — A Deno module for creating terminal user interfaces.
• dynamic-import-ponyfill — A ponyfill for using dynamic imports in Deno Deploy.
• superfetch — A superagent testing library based on Fetch API.
• DenoGres — A comprehensive ORM for PostgreSQL and Deno.
• gtr — Google Translate for Deno.
• grammY — A telegram bot framework that supports Deno.
• fresh-validation — Easy server-side and client-side validation for FormData, URLSearchParams, and JSON data for your Fresh app.
• squeezed — A prototyping tool for Fresh.
• deno-outdated — Find outdated dependencies in your Deno project.
• dpm — An easy way to manage Deno modules.

Odds and Ends

• Prototyping and need SVG image placeholders? This neat service (hosted near you on Deno Deploy) will provide a rectangular vector given height and width parameters.
• Curious about Deno FFI? “The Dark Arts of Deno Foreign Function Interface” is a guide that demystifies FFI and fills gaps in Deno’s own manual. Check back often as it’s actively being improved!

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-- Andy