Deno, the new JS/TS runtime, just went 1.0 🎉🦕 Let’s build out a small project and learn together.

Since 2018, the creator of Node.js has been working on a new JavaScript runtime called Deno that addresses some of the pain points he had identified. Deno’s features include:

• An improved security model
• Decentralized package management
• A standard library
• Built in tooling

Check out this blog post for a full overview of Deno’s features and how it compares to Node.js.

Deno 1.0 was just released. What better time to dive in? In this post we’ll get started with Deno by building a small project.

When I’m learning a new framework or language, I try to find a Goldilocks project. That is, not too hard, not too soft, somewhere between “hello world” and production ready code.

Let’s write a Deno script that sends you an SMS affirmation. In order to do that we’ll use Deno to:

• Read a file
• Read environment variables
• Run a script
• Import and use modules
• Make an API call

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