Re:Deno in 2021
by brundolf on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:21PM
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Running TypeScript directly is a great part, but there’s a bigger, little-discussed aspect: Deno has a built-in, prescribed, standardized,
- Testing framework
- Linter
- Bundler
- Formatter
It’s like having Cargo or Go’s CLI for JavaScript/TypeScript. It eliminates so much fiddling and breakage, gets everyone in the ecosystem on the same page, etc. Even for a solo project it’s been a dream to use, compared with the hodgepodge of a Node project.
- Testing framework
- Linter
- Bundler
- Formatter
It’s like having Cargo or Go’s CLI for JavaScript/TypeScript. It eliminates so much fiddling and breakage, gets everyone in the ecosystem on the same page, etc. Even for a solo project it’s been a dream to use, compared with the hodgepodge of a Node project.