Deno Newsletter #15 - custom tsconfig.json, CLI changes


Welcome to Deno Newsletter issue #15!


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Releases

Note: Deno is moving to new versioning scheme in which minor version number will be incremented each week.

Last week there were two releases:

Important changes:

  • Support for custom tsconfig.json (#2089)
  • "deno run" subcommand (#2215)
  • "deno xeval" subcommand (#2260)
  • "--no-fetch" CLI flags to prevent remote modules downloads (#2213)
  • Deno.utime/Deno.utimeSync (#2241)
  • Performance improvements and memory leak fixes (#2259, #2238)
  • V8 upgrade to 7.6.53 (#2236)

Changes in standard library:

  • Improvements to HTTP cookie handling (#368, #359)

Full list of changes can be seen here.

Make sure to update your CLI usage as "deno script.ts" no longer works, instead use "deno run script.ts".

Resources

GitHub - denolib/node

Compatibility layer between node and deno.

GitHub - zekth/deno-case-style

A string validator and formater for case Style

GitHub - aynik/deno-chunked

A set of functions to read `ArrayBuffer` chunk by chunk or buffered until EOF.

Thanks for reading, see you next week with more news!

- Bartek


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