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5. Existing Modules

Fernando Doglio1 
(1)
El Molar, Madrid, Spain
 

By now, we’ve covered every major change introduced by Deno into the JavaScript ecosystem, and now it’s time to review the things you can already do with it.

Don’t get me wrong; you can use it for pretty much anything that you’d use Node.js. This is not about the runtime but rather about the state of its surrounding module ecosystem. As you probably know, NPM has literally millions of modules published by almost as many users, and while that code is JavaScript, it’s not 100% compatible with Deno, so we can’t just reuse that work like we’re just starting with an 11 years head start.

That being said, ...

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