2020. — 46 p.
The Deno Handbook follows the 80/20 rule: learn in 20% of the time 80% of a topic.
In particular, the goal is to get you up to speed quickly with Deno.
If you are familiar with Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript ecosystem, then Deno is just like Node. Except deeply improved in many ways.
Let's start from a quick list of the features I like the most about Deno:
It is based on modern features of the JavaScript language;
It has an extensive standard library It has TypeScript at its core, which brings a huge advantage in many different ways, including first-class TypeScript support (you don't have to separately compile TypeScript, it's automatically done by Deno);
It embraces ES modules It has no package manager It has a first-class await It as a built-in testing facility;
It aims to be browser-compatible as much as it can, for example by providing a built-in fetch and the global window object;