Best of Deno — February 2023

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   Community Picks·3y

   Ryan Dahl, Node.js Creator, Wants to Rebuild How We Experience the Web

   Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js, reflects on the evolution and shortcomings of Node.js. He introduces Deno as a more secure and elegant alternative. Dahl believes that edge computing is the future of web development.

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   Deno·3y

   Back to the SSR

   In the past 10 years, the median size for a desktop webpage has gone from 468 KB to 2284 KB. For mobile, this jump is even more staggering — 145 KB to 2010 KB — a whopping 1288.1% increase. This has greatly improved the utility of the web, but at the cost of size, bandwidth, and speed.

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   LogRocket·3y

   Type checking with TypeRunner

   TypeRunner is a high-performance TypeScript compiler that enables type checking without the need for `tsc` or a JavaScript engine. It compiles TypeScript code to bytecode and runs it in a custom virtual machine. It is portable and independent of Node.js, Deno, or a JavaScript engine. TypeRunner has a proof-of-concept status and supports only a subset of TypeScript's type system. It offers performance benefits over `tsc` and Deno, but has limitations such as lack of support for import statements and references to the Deno global namespace.

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