An Oak application is most often used as a backend application in a client-server architecture whereas the client could be written in React.js or another popular frontend solution and the server could be written in Oak. Both entities result in a client-server architecture (frontend and backend relationship) whereas the backend would be needed for…
Oak, the successor of Koa (which is the spiritual successor of Express in Node.js), is the most popular choice when it comes to building web applications with Deno. However, when saying web applications with Deno, it's often not for anything visible in the browser (excluding server-side rendering of a frontend application). Instead, Oak, a web…
Environment variables are great for hiding sensitive information about your Deno application. This can be API keys, passwords, or other data which shouldn't be visible to others. That's why there exists the .env file, which you would have to create, to hide sensitive information. We will create this file and pass some sensitive information to it…
Deno is a new runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. If this doesn't tell you much and you don't know what to expect, then take this statement as secondary introduction: Ryan Dahl, inventor of Node.js, released Deno in 2020 as answer to improve Node.js. However, Deno isn't Node.js, but a complete new runtime for JavaScript, but also TypeScript…
