The biggest news of the week may be the official V1 release of Deno, the server-side JavaScript runtime created by Ryan Dahl, announced in this blog post.

It’s often considered as the sequel of Node.js as it fixes or improves a lot of points, taking advantage of 10 years of experience and iterations with Node.js.

Among the main features:

• TypeScript compiler is included by default (but you can write code in regular JavaScript)
• No centralized package manager, any JavaScript dependency can be loaded from any URL
• The “standard library” provides solutions for common needs that usually require the installation of packages in Node.js
• Deno uses as much as possible standards from the web (Example: the fetch API)
• Files imported using the ECMAScript modules
• Built-in test runner and debugger

The ecosystem around Deno is quite young but expect things to change a lot, given the buzz around Deno.

The project has grown a lot since the first time we mentioned in the issue number 2, 2 years ago. Time flies!