Up and Running with Deno for Node.js Developers

Developing applications with Node.js can be an emotional rollercoaster. On one hand you have a flexible runtime with a huge eco-system which makes prototyping applications incredibly easy. On the other, however, Node has accumulated a long list of debt that it keeps carrying around with it.

Ever since initially announced by Dahl in 2018, Deno has set out to make up for Node’s past shortcomings and become the better runtime. Version 1.0 was released in March 2020 and a lot has happened ever since.