Awesome Deno

Deno is a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.

This list is a collection of the best Deno modules and resources.

Contents

• Docs
  • Official Docs
  • External Docs
• Modules
  • Automation
  • CLI utils
  • Cloud APIs
  • Database
  • Editor framework
  • Frontend framework
  • Game engine
  • Logging
  • Machine Learning
  • Mail
  • Markdown
  • Math
  • Static site generator
  • String utils
  • Social Platform APIs
  • Template engine
  • Testing
  • Utils
  • Web framework
  • WebSocket
  • Web utils
  • Webview
  • XML
• Registries
• Showcases
• Tools
• Integrations
• Articles
• Blogs/Newsletters
• Presentations
• Resources
  • Books
• Resources in Other Languages
  • Chinese
  • Hebrew
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Darija (Arabe marocain)
  • Kurdish (Central)

Docs

Official Docs

• Deno API Reference
• Deno Manual
• Deno Standard Library
• Official Site

External Docs

• V8 Docs for Deno

Modules

Automation

• swissknife - SwissKnife - Deno Swiss Knife tools for Windows.
• zuke - Code-first, strongly-typed build automation system where builds are defined as TypeScript classes.

CLI utils

• cac - Simple yet powerful framework for building command-line apps.
• charmd - A simple, extendable markdown renderer for your terminal.
• cli-spinner - Show spinners in the terminal while running long tasks.
• cliffy - The complete solution for building interactive command-line tools.
• clite - Automatic CLI generation from a class.
• commit-sage-cli - Generates Conventional Commit messages with AI based on Git repository changes.
• tui - Module which allows easy creation of Terminal User Interfaces.
• yargs - The modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.

Cloud APIs

• aws-api - From-scratch Typescript AWS API client built for Deno.

Database

• @iuioiua/redis - Fast, lightweight Redis client built upon the Web Streams API.
• aloedb - Light, Embeddable, NoSQL database for Deno without dependencies.
• deno_mongo - MongoDB database driver.
• deno_mysql - MySQL database driver.
• denodb - MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB ORM for Deno.
• dongoose - A simple and easy to use ORM for Deno KV.
• maxminddb - A library that enables the usage of MaxmindDB geoIP database files
• nessie - Create, migrate and rollback migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite.
• postgres - Driver for PostgreSQL database.
• redis - An experimental implementation of redis client for deno.
• yongo - Subset of Mongoose api in deno (like populate) but will not fully copy mongoose

Editor framework

• Denops - 🐜 An ecosystem to write Vim/Neovim plugins with Deno.

Frontend framework

• fresh - The next-gen web framework.
• packup - Zero-config web application packager for Deno.
• ultra - 💎 Modern Streaming React Framework in Deno.

Game engine

• caviar - ⚡ Blazing fast, modern, Game Engine powered by WebGPU for Deno and the browser
• sdl2 - SDL2 module for Deno

Image

• ImageScript - Image processing in JavaScript, utilizing WebAssembly for performance.
• kavel - Generate and edit images with AI without an API key or account.
• monke - Color quantization and dithering library with extra image filters (blur, invert, etc).

Logging

• LogTape - Simple logging library with zero dependencies for Deno/Node.js/Bun/browsers.

Machine learning

• appraisal - Feature extraction and conversion.
• classy-lala - Single-layer perceptrons for supervised learning tasks.
• netsaur - Powerful machine learning, accelerated by WebGPU

Mail

• deno-smtp - A smtp mail sender for deno.
• dmarc-rua - Parse DMARC aggregate reports from XML, gzip, zip and report emails.

Markdown

• LiteMarkup - AST-first parser. Under 3 KB gzipped, zero dependencies.

Math

• neo - Matrix and other math, accelerated by WebGPU

Static site generator

• lume - A static site generator similar to Jekyll or Eleventy with support for multiple file formats.
• pagic - The easiest way to generate static html page from markdown, built with Deno.

String utils

• written - A provides a set of utilities for manipulating text, with a focus on providing typographic tools rather than pure string manipulation.

Social Platform APIs

• discordeno - Discord API library for Deno
• grammY - Telegram Bot API framework for Deno.
• MTKruto - Deno-first, cross-runtime client library for Telegram's MTProto API.

Template engine

• dejs - Ejs template engine for deno.
• eta - Fast, lightweight, and configurable embedded template engine.
• handlebars - Handlebars template engine for deno

Testing

• deno-puppeteer - A library which provides a high-level API to control Chromium or Chrome over the DevTools Protocol.
• qunitx - Zero dependency, fully customizable, mature, universal test API that can run interchangably in node.js, Deno & browser, using default runtime test runners.
• rhum - A lightweight testing framework for Deno.
• superdeno - Super-agent driven library for testing Deno HTTP servers.
• superoak - HTTP assertions for Oak made easy via SuperDeno.
• tepi - A .http Test Runner
• unexpected - Extensible BDD assertion toolkit.

Utils

• buckets - Bundle assets and scripts in a single executable file.
• colors - Color conversions and operations in TypeScript.
• computed_types - Joi like validators for Typescript and Deno.
• croner - Cron library with advanced scheduling features, well-documented API, and zero dependencies.
• csv-pipe - Typed, zero-dependency CSV parser and encoder for every runtime.
• deno-config - Utility to streamline deno app configuration management through cli, .env and json files
• deno_kv_fs Deno KV file system, compatible with Deno deploy. Makes use of Web Streams API.
• denon - A file watcher with a for-await generator.
• dinoenv - tiny library to manage environment variables with deno.
• durationjs - Get formatted time duration from a timestamp or a human-readable string.
• envapt - Read environment variables as typed values with built-in converters, Standard Schema validation, and zero dependencies.
• esm-itter – A strongly typed fork of the popular EventEmitter3 with a focus on EcmaScript module syntax, TypeScript and modern tooling.
• evt - Type safe replacement for EventEmitter.
• fastest-validator - Schema validator for all javascript platforms
• fortuna - Weighted gacha system.
• garn-validator - Create validations with ease.
• locale-kit (GitHub) - A internationalisation/localisation/translation (i18n/l10n/t9n) library with a wrapper for Fresh and support for plurals and dynamic replacement.
• optionals - Rust-like error handling and options with exhaustive pattern matching.
• PLS - Use 2 lines to persist localStorage in any database, including, but not limited to, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Redis.
• qrcode - QR code image generator for Deno.
• rubico - 🏞 [a]synchronous function composition; it just works.
• solc - 💎 Solidity bindings for Deno.
• switcher4deno - Feature Flag Deno SDK client for Switcher-API.
• wu-diff-js - A diff library to compute differences between two slices using wu(the O(NP)) algorithm.

Validation

• zod - TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference.

Web framework

• alosaur - Alosaur - Deno web framework with many ES Decorators.
• aqua - A minimal and fast web framework for Deno.
• danet - A Savory web framework for Deno heavily inspired by Nest.js.
• drash - A REST microframework for Deno's HTTP server with zero dependencies.
• faster - A fast and optimized middleware server with a set of useful middlwares.
• faster_react - Full Stack web framework with React + Faster. Fully compatible with Deno Deploy.
• hono - Ultrafast web framework for Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Bun. Fast, but not only fast.
• oak - A middleware framework for Deno's net server.
  • oak-http-proxy - Proxy middleware for Deno Oak HTTP servers.
  • oak-routing-ctrl - TypeScript Decorators for easy scaffolding API services with the oak framework.
• opine - Fast, minimalist web framework ported from ExpressJS.
  • opine-http-proxy - Proxy middleware for Deno Opine HTTP servers.

WebSocket

• dropper - Custom event-based WebSockets framework for building real-time apps on Deno 🦕
• wocket - A WebSocket library for Deno.

Web utils

• djwt - Make JSON Web Tokens (JWT) on Deno based on JWT and JWS specifications.
• forwarded - Deno port of forwarded library.
• fresh_chart - A server-side-rendered charting library for Fresh.
• gentleRpc - A JSON-RPC 2.0 TypeScript library for Deno and the browser.
• gql - Universal GraphQL HTTP middleware.
• graphql-tag - GraphQL schema AST from template literal.
• nats - A Deno client for the NATS messaging system.
• obsidian - A native GraphQL caching client and server module.
• router - A high-performance basic router works anywhere.
• rpc - JSONRPC server implementation for Deno.
• ts-prometheus - A prometheus client.

Webview

• webview - Deno bindings for webview, a tiny library for creating web-based desktop GUIs.

XML

• sax-ts - SAX-style XML parser ported from sax-js.

Registries

• deno.land/x/ - The official 3rd party module registry.
• nest.land - An immutable, blockchain powered Deno package registry. 🥚

Showcases

• Chobble Tickets - Open source ticket sales system with encrypted attendee data and Stripe, Square, or SumUp payments.
• Deno Rest - A Boilerplate for deno RESTful apis.
• Edrys - Remote Teaching Software
• GitHub Profile Trophy - 🏆 Add dynamically generated GitHub Trophy on your readme
• ShopSavvy Deno Deploy - Deno Deploy router with Hono for product search, real-time pricing, and price history.
• The Official Showcase - The official showcase of Deno.

Tools

• clone - A simple utility for the convenient clone.
• denoflow - Configuration as code, use YAML to write automated workflows that run on Deno, with any Deno modules, Typescript/Javascript codes
• denoify - For NPM module authors that would like to support Deno but do not want to write and maintain a port.
• denoliver - A simple, dependency free file server with live reload.
• denomander - Deno command-line interfaces inspired from commander.js.
• denon - A daemon script runner, like nodemon. Built in and for Deno.
• denopendabot - Dependabot for Deno projects.
• denopkg - An easier way to use code from GitHub in your Deno project.
• Deno Dig - A tool for extracting application code and npm packages from stand-alone Deno executables.
• deno_docker - Latest dockerfiles and images for Deno - alpine, centos, debian, ubuntu.
• dmm - Lightweight Deno Module Manager
• dnt - Deno to npm package build tool.
• dpm - Deno Package Manager, a NPM | Yarn Experience for Deno
• dvm
  • asdf-community/asdf-deno - Deno plugin for asdf
  • justjavac/dvm - Deno Version Manager: manage multiple active Deno versions.
  • axetroy/dvm - Version manger for Deno without runtime dependencies.
  • ghosind/dvm - A lightweight Deno Version Manager for Linux/MacOS.
• entype - A CLI tool used to generate type definitions for serialised data, currently supporting JSON to Rust and TypeScript.
• kopo-cli - A Deno registry browser in the terminal.
• make-deno-edition - Automatically makes package.json projects (such as npm packages and node.js modules) compatible with Deno.
• pup - Advanced process manager for Deno. With autorestart, fs watch, cron start, process telemetry, ipc, clustering, load balancer and more.
• studio-pack-generator - Convert a folder or a RSS URL to Studio pack for Lunii device
• trex - Package management like npm for deno.
• udd - Update Deno dependencies: updates import statements to their latest published version.
• vscode-deno - VS Code extension that provides Deno support using the TypeScript Deno language service plugin.

Integrations

• Netlify Edge Functions - Edge Functions connect the Netlify platform and workflow.
• Slack Custom Functions - Build custom Run On Slack functions using Deno.
• Smallweb - A personal cloud contained in a single directory. You can customize the server behavior using Deno.
• Supabase Edge Functions - Edge Functions are server-side TypeScript functions, distributed globally at the edge.
• Astro - Deploy a server-side rendered Astro site to Deno Deploy.

Blogs/Newsletters

• Deno Blog - The official blog of the Deno Company.
• Deno News - A newsletter of Deno articles, news and cool projects.

Articles

• Develop with Deno and Visual Studio Code
• First thoughts on Deno, the JavaScript/TypeScript run-time
• Getting started with Deno
• What's Deno, and how is it different from Node.js?
• Write a small API using Deno
• Deno on Cloud Run
• Learn Deno: Chat app
• From Node to Deno
• Create a simple Note-taking app with Deno
• Building API's using Deno, Oak and MYSQL
• Create your first News CLI app using Deno
• Continuous Integration with Deno
• The Hidden Superpower of Deno: xeval
• Deno REST API with Oak Tutorial Series 0, 1, 2
• Getting Started with Deno
• How to deploy a Deno app using Docker

Presentations

• 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU 2018
  • Slides
• JSDC 2018#A01 - Deno, A New Server-Side Runtime By Ryan Dahl
• Ryan Dahl. Deno, a new way to JavaScript. JS Fest 2019 Spring
  • Slides
• Rafał Pocztarski — From Node.js to Deno - JavaScript/TypeScript runtime built with V8 and Rust [EN]
• Ryan Dahl: A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript | js.la April 2019
  • Slides
• Ryan Dahl: Deno, a new way to JavaScript - HolyJS 2019 Piter
  • Slides
• Rafał Pocztarski - What is Deno? A new runtime for modern JavaScript and TypeScript backends for 2020s - Deno Warsaw
• Michał Sabiniarz - How to contribute to Deno? - Deno Warsaw
• Bartek Iwańczuk - Deno internals, how modern runtime is built - Deno Warsaw
  • Slides
• Ryan Dahl & Kitson Kelly: Deno is a New Way to JavaScript - TSConf 2019
• Bert Belder - Deno - dotJS 2019
• Kitson P. Kelly - Deno, and The Future of JavaScript Runtimes - CityJS Conf 2020
• Matías Insaurralde - Deno: an experimental approach on V8 interoperability [EN subtitles] - NodeConf Argentina 2019
  • Slides

Resources

Books

• Modern Web Development with Deno

Resources in Other Languages

Chinese

• Deno 并不是下一代 Node.js
• 玩 Deno 遇到问题的解决方案
• 让我们一起来学习别人学不动的 Deno
• Design Mistakes in Node zh-CN
• Node之父ry：Node中的设计错误
• Node之父 - Deno，一个新的JS运行时

Hebrew

• Deno intro in Hebrew (slides in English)

Indonesian

• Berkenalan dengan Deno
• Perkenalan Deno dan Instalasi
• Deno Land Indonesia Telegram group

Italian

• Deno - L'anagramma di Node

Japanese

• Node.js における設計ミス By Ryan Dahl
• mizchi/deno_code_reading.md
• Design Mistakes in Node & Deno #kng5 / deno
• Dive into Deno：プロセス起動からTypeScriptが実行されるまで

Russian

• Telegram channel
• Telegram chat

Spanish

• Hola Deno! . 🦕
• Así puedes crear tu primera API REST con Deno
• Primeros pasos con Deno 🦕 El sucesor de NodeJS desarrollado con Rust y TypeScript
• Primer vistazo con deno

Darija

• A first look at Deno | BlaBlaConf 2021 🇲🇦

Kurdish (Central)

• A short introduction to Deno