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Deno Web Development

You're reading from   Deno Web Development Write, test, maintain, and deploy JavaScript and TypeScript web applications using Deno

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800205666
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexandre Santos Alexandre Santos
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Familiar with Deno
2. Chapter 1: What is Deno? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Toolchain 4. Chapter 3: The Runtime and Standard Library 5. Section 2: Building an Application
6. Chapter 4: Building a Web Application 7. Chapter 5: Adding Users and Migrating to Oak 8. Chapter 6: Adding Authentication and Connecting to the Database 9. Chapter 7: HTTPS, Extracting Configuration, and Deno in the Browser 10. Section 3: Testing and Deploying
11. Chapter 8: Testing – Unit and Integration 12. Chapter 9: Deploying a Deno Application 13. Chapter 10: What's Next? 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing a web server with Oak

At the end of the previous chapter, we looked at different web libraries. After a brief analysis, we ended up choosing Oak. In this section, we'll rewrite part of our web application so that we can use it instead of the HTTP module from the standard library.

Let's open src/web/index.ts and start tackling it step by step.

Following Oak's documentation (https://deno.land/x/oak@v6.3.1), the only thing we'll need to do is instantiate the Application object, define a middleware, and call the listen method. Let's do it:

  1. Add Oak's import to the deps.ts file:
    export { Application } from
      "https://deno.land/x/oak@v6.3.1/mod.ts"

    If you are using VSCode, then you've probably noticed that there is warning saying that it couldn't find this version of the dependency locally.

  2. Let's run the commands from the previous section to download it and add it to the lock file.

    Do not forget to do...

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