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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
  • Online Playgrounds
• Modules
  • Automation
  • CLI utils
  • Cloud APIs
  • Database
  • Editor framework
  • Frontend development
  • Frontend framework
  • Game engine
  • LLM
  • 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
  • Korean
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Darija (Arabe marocain)
  • Kurdish (Central)

Docs

Official Docs

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

External Docs

• V8 Docs for Deno

Online Playgrounds

• Deno Starter in Codesandbox
• myCompiler.io
• Repl.it

Modules

Automation

• autopilot - Autopilot - Cross-platform web automation with Deno.
• swissknife - SwissKnife - Deno Swiss Knife tools for Windows.

CLI utils

• cac - Simple yet powerful framework for building command-line apps.
• charmd - A simple, extendable markdown renderer for your terminal.
• chart - Console ASCII line charts with no dependencies.
• cli-spinner - Show spinners in the terminal while running long tasks.
• cliffy - The complete solution for building interactive command-line tools.
• kia - Simple terminal spinners for Deno 🦕
• terminal_images - A Deno module and CLI tool for displaying images in the terminal.
• tui - Module which allows easy creation of Terminal User Interfaces.
• with-env - Simple command line utilty for executing commands with one or more .env files.
• yargs - The modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.

Cloud APIs

• aws-api - From-scratch Typescript AWS API client built for Deno.
• googleapis - Auto-generated Google API clients for Deno.

Database

• aloedb - Light, Embeddable, NoSQL database for Deno without dependencies.
• cotton - SQL Database Toolkit for deno
• dangoDB - A MongoDB ODM for Deno.
• denodb - MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB ORM for Deno.
• deno_mongo - MongoDB database driver.
• deno_mysql - MySQL database driver.
• dndb - Persistent and embedable NoSQL database engine written for Deno 🦕.
• dongoose - A simple and easy to use ORM for Deno KV.
• dsddb - A dead simple persistant key-value database utilizing the JSON format.
• dso - A simple ORM library based on mysql.
• 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.
• r2d2 - Fast, lightweight Redis client library for Deno.
• redis - An experimental implementation of redis client for deno.
• sql-builder - An sql query builder.
• 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 development

• postcss - A tool for transforming styles with JS plugins.

Frontend framework

• aleph.js - A React framework in Deno, inspired by Next.js.
• 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
• neko - 🐈 caviar’s twin frame buffer deno module with a framebuffer canvas implementation
• sdl2 - SDL2 module for Deno

Image

• ImageScript - Image processing in JavaScript, utilizing WebAssembly for performance.
• monke - Color quantization and dithering library with extra image filters (blur, invert, etc).

LLM

• duckduckgo-ai-chat - Providing Duckduckgo AI Chat API, which can use gpt-4o-mini for free.

Logging

• sentry_deno - Unofficial port of the Sentry SDK for JavaScript to Deno.
• dlog - A ussefull logger for the prompt with icons or simple version!
• LogTape - Simple logging library with zero dependencies for Deno/Node.js/Bun/browsers.

Machine learning

• classy-lala - Single-layer perceptrons for supervised learning tasks.
• netsaur - Powerful machine learning, accelerated by WebGPU
• synaptic - Dependency-less neural network library ported to deno
• appraisal - Feature extraction and conversion.

Mail

• deno-smtp - A smtp mail sender for deno.

Markdown

• marked - Markdown-to-HTML converter.

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

• camelcase - Convert a dash/dot/underscore/space separated string to camelCase: foo-bar → fooBar.
• deno_case_style - String validator and formater for different case style. eg: camelCase etc.
• deno-json-colorizer - A library for colorizing JSON strings in Deno
• deno-prettystring - Format, trim and remove extra white spaces between characters from string.
• deno-slugify - A string slugifier for deno.
• normalize_diacritics - Remove accents/diacritics in string.
• 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

• grammY - Telegram Bot API framework for Deno.
• grm - Telegram MTProto client for Deno.
• twi - Twitter API v2 client for Deno.
• discordeno - Discord API library for Deno
• MTKruto - Deno-first, cross-runtime client library for Telegram’s MTProto API.

Template engine

• dejs - Ejs template engine for deno.
• deno_tiny_templates - Template renderer for deno.
• eta - Fast, lightweight, and configurable embedded template engine.
• handlebars - Handlebars template engine for deno
• mustache - Mustache template engine for deno

Testing

• deno-puppeteer - A library which provides a high-level API to control Chromium or Chrome over the DevTools Protocol.
• expect - Helpers for writing jest like expect tests in deno.
• merlin - Testing and Benchmarking framework for deno 🧙‍♂️
• pretty_benching - A small library to make your Deno benchmarking progress and results look pretty.
• 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
• tincan - A Jest-like testing library for Deno.
• unexpected - Extensible BDD assertion toolkit.
• unitest - Deno-first universal unit testing framework.

Utils

• bettermap - A TypeScript extension of the JavaScript Map with Array-like features.
• beno - A configuration manager typed and faster for Deno Inspired in Viper of Golang
• buckets - Bundle assets and scripts in a single executable file.
• bytes_formater - Format bytes (Uint8Array, ArrayBufferView, etc) output, useful when debugging IO functions.
• coffee - Deno Configuration - a type-safe, easy to use Deno config manager.
• colors - Color conversions and operations in TypeScript.
• croner - Cron library with advanced scheduling features, well-documented API, and zero dependencies.
• computed_types - Joi like validators for Typescript and Deno.
• dcc - Deno Cache Clean, reloading deps when next running.
• denon - A file watcher with a for-await generator.
• deno-config - Utility to streamline deno app configuration management through cli, .env and json files
• deno-context - Propagate deadlines, a cancellation and other request-scoped values to multiple promise. The behaviour is like Go’s context.
• deno_cron - A cron Job scheduler that allows you to write human readable cron syntax with tons of flexibility
• deno-deamon - Make the Deno program run in the background.
• deno-dotenv
  • pietvanzoen/deno-dotenv - Dotenv handling for deno.
  • cardosomarcos/deno-dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for Deno projects.
• deno-envconfig - Configuration management utility.
• deno-fnparse - An extremely simple parser combinator for JavaScript.
• deno-globrex - Port of globrex to deno, glob to regular expression.
• deno_notify - Send desktop notifications on all platforms.
• deno-opn - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables. Cross-platform.
• deno-plugin-prepare - A library for managing Deno native plugin dependencies.
• deno_random_interval - Helper to generate random interval.
• deno_tokenizer - A simple tokenizer for deno.
• deno-using - An python-style with statements for deno.
• deno-validation - A general purpose validation library for Deno.
• dinoenv - tiny library to manage environment variables with deno.
• durationjs - Get formatted time duration from a timestamp or a human-readable string.
• draco - File and folder multiplatform utils for Deno!
• ensure - Ensure you are running a minimum version of Deno, Typescript, or V8.
• evt - Type safe replacement for EventEmitter.
• fastest-validator - Schema validator for all javascript platforms
• fortuna - Weighted gacha system.
• fossil - A value-type validation suite.
• garn-yaml - Read or write yaml interpolating env variables.
• garn-validator - Create validations with ease.
• invert-kv - Invert key-value pairs in Deno.
• lazy - A linq-like lazy-evaluation iteration module.
• locale-kit (GitHub ) - A internationalisation/localisation/translation (i18n/l10n/t9n) library with a wrapper for Fresh and support for plurals and dynamic replacement.
• maze_generator - Javascript module for generating, solving, analyzing and displaying mazes.
• ms - Easily convert various time formats to milliseconds.
• online - Check if you’re currently online in Deno.
• optionals - Rust-like error handling and options with exhaustive pattern matching.
• qrcode - QR code image generator for Deno.
• recursive-readdir - Recursively read directories in Deno.
• rubico - 🏞 [a]synchronous function composition; it just works.
• solc - 💎 Solidity bindings for Deno.
• switcher4deno - Feature Flag Deno SDK client for Switcher-API.
• tryify - Functional style error handling; never throw/try/catch/finally again.
• type-fest - A collection of essential TypeScript types (port of sindresorhus/type-fest).
• unified-deno-lock - Powerful and simple lock (mutex) library to handle race conditions with zero dependencies
• wasm-gzip - Perform gzip operations for Deno.
• watch - A file watcher.
• wu-diff-js - A diff library to compute differences between two slices using wu(the O(NP)) algorithm.
• PLS - Use 2 lines to persist localStorage in any database, including, but not limited to, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Redis.

Validation

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

Video

• Fast Forward - An easy to use ffmpeg module for Deno. 🦕

Web framework

• aqua - A minimal and fast web framework for Deno.
• alosaur - Alosaur - Deno web framework with many ES Decorators.
• 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.
• 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.
• wren - A small, but powerful HTTP library with a functional spin for creating composable web apps, built for convenience and simplicity
• primate - A polymorphic development platform

WebSocket

• deno-websocket - 🦕 A simple WebSocket library like ws of node.js library.
• dropper - Custom event-based WebSockets framework for building real-time apps on Deno 🦕
• websocket_server - A WebSocket server library.
• wocket - A WebSocket library for Deno.

Web utils

• compression - Deno HTTP compression middleware.
• 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.
• qs - A query string parser with nesting support.
• react-icons - React Icons converted to preact for deno fresh.
• router - A high-performance basic router works anywhere.
• rpc - JSONRPC server implementation for Deno.
• status - HTTP codes and status utility for Deno.
• squishy_cookies - Easily sign and verify cookies.
• ts-prometheus - A prometheus client.
• up - Check if a website is up in Deno.
• youtube-deno - A Deno client library for the YouTube Data API for any interaction with YouTube.

Webview

• Astrodon - Modular framework for building native multi-platform apps with Deno and webview.
• webview - Deno bindings for webview, a tiny library for creating web-based desktop GUIs.

XML

• deno-xml-parser - Deno XML parser ported from segmentio/xml-parser.
• sax-ts - SAX-style XML parser ported from sax-js .

Registries

• crux.land - A free registry service meant for hosting small ( < 10kB) single deno scripts.
• Deno PKG - An easier way to use code from GitHub in your Deno project.
• Denopkg.dev - Use any public/private repository from GitHub/GitLab in your Deno project.
• deno.land/x/ - The official 3rd party module registry.
• nest.land - An immutable, blockchain powered Deno package registry. 🥚

Showcases

• Deno Rest - A Boilerplate for deno RESTful apis.
• Deno Seed - Complete boilerplate for development. :seedling:
• Edrys - Remote Teaching Software
• Fresh Showcase - The official showcase of Fresh apps.
• GitHub Profile Trophy - 🏆 Add dynamically generated GitHub Trophy on your readme
• Saleor Deno Merch - A fork of the original Deno Merch e-commerce website, rebuilt with Saleor .
• The Official Showcase - The official showcase of Deno.
• UsingDeno - Curated list of Web Applications & Projects using Deno 🦕.

Tools

• clone - A simple utility for the convenient clone.
• decense - Generate a license with one deno run command.
• dedep - Manage dependency versions.
• 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.
• denoinit - Denoinit generates useful files for Deno project.
• 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.
• denoversion - SemVer and git version management for Deno.
• denox - Like packages.json scripts, but for Deno with permissions support.
• deno.mk - Cross-platform Makefile for installing and running Deno.
• deno_docker - Latest dockerfiles and images for Deno - alpine, centos, debian, ubuntu.
• dev_server - Let TypeScript files be used directly in the script tag.
• dmm - Lightweight Deno Module Manager
• dnt - Deno to npm package build tool.
• dpm
  • BoltDoggy/deno#dpm - Deno Package Manager, install global command for deno. like denoget.

  • dpmland/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.
  • dvm.cmd - Deno Version Manager for Windows. Written as a single batch file.
  • 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.
• packer-provisioner-deno - A Packer plugin that makes it easy to build virtual machine images with Deno scripts.
• pre-commit-deno - pre-commit git hooks for Deno projects.
• pup - Advanced process manager for Deno. With autorestart, fs watch, cron start, process telemetry, ipc, clustering, load balancer and more.
• starter - Deno module starter template with GitHub Actions CI
• trex - Package management like npm for deno.
• udd - Update Deno dependencies: updates import statements to their latest published version.
• velociraptor - An npm-style script runner for Deno.
• vscode-deno - VS Code extension that provides Deno support using the TypeScript Deno language service plugin.
• vscode-deno-starter - VS Code project boilerplate to get started with Deno.
• denofn-selfhosted - Self-hosted Deno functions, made with Deno and Docker.

Integrations

• Slack Custom Functions - Build custom Run On Slack functions using Deno.
• Netlify Edge Functions - Edge Functions connect the Netlify platform and workflow.
• 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

• Craig’s Deno Diary - A blog focussing on Deno tech & lib howtos.
• 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
• Test coverage in Deno with Codecov and GitHub Actions
• 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAmqgbv247s)

  • 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
• 《Deno进阶开发笔记》
• Deno 手册
• Deno 中文开发者社区
• Node���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

• deno-ja - Deno Japanese User Group.
• 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

Korean

• Deno Korea - Deno Korean User Group.

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 🇲🇦](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_etUvzAa4s)

Kurdish (Central)

• A short introduction to Deno