esm.sh VS deno

Compare esm.sh vs deno and see what are their differences.

esm.sh

A fast, smart, & global CDN for modern(es2015+) web development. (by esm-dev)

deno

A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. (by denoland)
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esm.sh deno
58 448
2,808 92,841
2.7% 0.5%
9.8 9.9
6 days ago 6 days ago
Go Rust
MIT License MIT License
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esm.sh

Posts with mentions or reviews of esm.sh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.
  • Building a self-creating website with Supabase and AI
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Apr 2024
    /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/ban-ts-comment */ // Follow this setup guide to integrate the Deno language server with your editor: // https://deno.land/manual/getting_started/setup_your_environment // This enables autocomplete, go to definition, etc. import { corsHeaders } from "../_shared/cors.ts"; import { createClient } from "https://esm.sh/@supabase/[email protected]"; import randomSample from "https://esm.sh/@stdlib/[email protected]"; import Replicate from "https://esm.sh/[email protected]"; import { base64 } from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/hexagon/base64@1/src/base64.js"; const supabaseClient = createClient( Deno.env.get("SUPABASE_URL") ?? "", Deno.env.get("SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY") ?? "" ); const replicate = new Replicate({ auth: Deno.env.get("REPLICATE_API_TOKEN") ?? "", }); // @ts-expect-error Deno.serve(async (req) => { if (req.method === "OPTIONS") { return new Response("ok", { headers: corsHeaders }); } const { record } = await req.json(); const thought_id = record.id; if (!thought_id) { return new Response("Missing thought_id", { status: 400, headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", ...corsHeaders }, }); } const allObjectIDsResponse = await fetch( "https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects?departmentIds=11", { method: "GET", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", Accept: "application/json", }, } ); const { objectIDs } = await allObjectIDsResponse.json(); const listOfArtworks = []; const addedIDs: number[] = []; while (listOfArtworks.length < 80) { const randomObjectID = randomSample(objectIDs, { size: 1 })[0]; if (addedIDs.includes(randomObjectID)) continue; const res = await fetch( `https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/${randomObjectID}`, { method: "GET", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", Accept: "application/json", }, } ); const artwork = await res.json(); if (!artwork.primaryImageSmall) continue; addedIDs.push(artwork.objectID); listOfArtworks.push({ image_url: artwork.primaryImageSmall, artist_name: artwork.artistDisplayName, title: artwork.title, is_main: listOfArtworks.length === 0, is_variant: false, thought_id, }); } const mainImage = listOfArtworks[0]; const output = await replicate.run( "yorickvp/llava-13b:b5f6212d032508382d61ff00469ddda3e32fd8a0e75dc39d8a4191bb742157fb", { input: { image: mainImage.image_url, top_p: 1, prompt: "Describe this painting by " + mainImage.artist_name, max_tokens: 1024, temperature: 0.2, }, } ); const file = await fetch(mainImage.image_url).then((res) => res.blob()); const promises = []; for (let i = 0; i < 8; i++) { const body = new FormData(); body.append( "prompt", output.join("") + `, a painting by ${mainImage.artist_name}` ); body.append("output_format", "jpeg"); body.append("mode", "image-to-image"); body.append("image", file); body.append("strength", clamp(Math.random(), 0.4, 0.7)); const request = fetch( `${Deno.env.get( "STABLE_DIFFUSION_HOST" )}/v2beta/stable-image/generate/sd3`, { method: "POST", headers: { Accept: "application/json", Authorization: `Bearer ${Deno.env.get("STABLE_DIFFUSION_API_KEY")}`, }, body, } ); promises.push(request); } const results = await Promise.all(promises); const variants = await Promise.all(results.map((res) => res.json())); await supabaseClient.from("artworks").insert(listOfArtworks); for (let i = 0; i < variants.length; i++) { const variant = variants[i]; const randomId = Math.random(); await supabaseClient.storage .from("variants") .upload( `${thought_id}/${randomId}.jpeg`, base64.toArrayBuffer(variant.image), { contentType: "image/jpeg", } ); await supabaseClient.from("artworks").insert({ image_url: `${Deno.env.get( "SUPABASE_URL" )}/storage/v1/object/public/variants/${thought_id}/${randomId}.jpeg`, artist_name: mainImage.artist_name, is_main: false, is_variant: true, thought_id, }); } await supabaseClient .from("thoughts") .update({ generating: false }) .eq("id", thought_id); return new Response(JSON.stringify({ main: mainImage }), { headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", ...corsHeaders }, }); }); function clamp(value: number, min: number, max: number) { return Math.min(Math.max(value, min), max); }
  • Bun 1.1
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024
  • Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2024
    const extism = await import("https://esm.sh/@extism/extism");
  • JSR: The JavaScript Registry
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2024
    Unpkg serves whatever is published to NPM, and if it's a library intended for the browser, that often includes minified versions ready for use in script tags, for example, https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/mithril.min.js. Sometimes the default export is CJS (which has require() calls), in which case, you can usually use the browse url that I mentioned to see if there's another export you can use.

    https://esm.sh/ is definitely a good option too if you're OK with modules.

  • Deno Cron
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2023
    * Change my NPM imports to something that would work with Deno. The most straightforward thing to do was just change `import "foo"` to `import "npm:foo"`, but this felt hacky so eventually I used https://esm.sh, which worked for some packages but not others.
  • Esm.sh/Run
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2023
  • Esm.sh run – 1KB script allows you to write JSX/TSX in HTML without build
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2023
  • Supabase - allow user login with pin
    1 project | /r/Supabase | 12 Nov 2023
    import { createClient } from "https://esm.sh/@supabase/supabase-js@2"; import { create, Payload } from "https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/mod.ts"; interface User { username: string; pin: string; } const supabase = createClient(Deno.env.get('SUPABASE_URL'), Deno.env.get('SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY')); const handler = async (req: Request): Promise => { if (req.method !== 'POST') { return new Response(null, { status: 405 }); } const { username, pin } = await req.json() as Vehicle; if (!username|| !pin) { return new Response(JSON.stringify({ error: 'username and PIN are required' }), { status: 400 }); } const { data, error } = await supabase .from('users') .select('*') .eq('username', username) .eq('pin', pin) .single(); if (error || !data) { return new Response(JSON.stringify({ valid: false }), { status: 401 }); } const jwtSecret = Deno.env.get('JWT_SECRET') as string;; const payload: Payload = { "username": username }; try { const token = await create({ alg: "HS256", typ: "JWT" }, payload, jwtSecret); // This line has the error console.log(token); return new Response(JSON.stringify({ token }), { status: 200 }); } catch (error) { console.error('Error creating JWT:', error); return new Response(JSON.stringify({ error: 'Error creating JWT' }), { status: 500 }); } }; Deno.serve(handler);
  • Let's optimize dependency management with URL Imports
    3 projects | dev.to | 13 Oct 2023
    Easily serve libraries from local server/private VPS: You can try to serve and cache libraries by running esm.sh to improve loading times on your server side. Or to keep things simple, just upload a code to pastebin or similar services and directly use it here!
  • Building a Slack Bot for AI-Powered Conversations with Supabase
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Oct 2023
    import { serve } from 'https://deno.land/[email protected]/http/server.ts'; import { WebClient } from 'https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/mod.js'; import { SupabaseClient } from 'https://esm.sh/@supabase/supabase-js@2'; const slack_bot_token = Deno.env.get("SLACK_TOKEN") ?? ""; const bot_client = new WebClient(slack_bot_token); const supabase_url = Deno.env.get("SUPABASE_URL") ?? ""; const service_role = Deno.env.get("SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY"); const supabase = new SupabaseClient(supabase_url, service_role); console.log(`Slack URL verification function up and running!`); serve(async (req) => { try { const req_body = await req.json(); console.log(JSON.stringify(req_body, null, 2)); const { token, challenge, type, event } = req_body; if (type == 'url_verification') { return new Response(JSON.stringify({ challenge }), { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, status: 200, }); } else if (event.type == 'app_mention') { const { user, text, channel, ts } = event; const url_path = text.toLowerCase() .includes('code') ? '/code' : '/general'; const { error } = await supabase.from('job_queue').insert({ http_verb: 'POST', payload: { user, text, channel, ts }, url_path: url_path }); if (error) { console.error(error); return new Response(JSON.stringify({ error: error.message }), { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, status: 400, }); } await post(channel, ts, `Taking a look and will get back to you shortly!`); return new Response('', { status: 200 }); } } catch (error) { return new Response(JSON.stringify({ error: error.message }), { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, status: 400, }); } }); async function post(channel: string, thread_ts: string, message: string): Promise { try { const result = await bot_client.chat.postMessage({ channel: channel, thread_ts: thread_ts, text: message, }); console.info(result); } catch (e) { console.error(`Error posting message: ${e}`); } }

deno

Posts with mentions or reviews of deno. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-02.
  • Bun - The One Tool for All Your JavaScript/Typescript Project's Needs?
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Apr 2024
    NodeJS is the dominant Javascript server runtime environment for Javascript and Typescript (sort of) projects. But over the years, we have seen several attempts to build alternative runtime environments such as Deno and Bun, today’s subject, among others.
  • Bun 1.1
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024
    https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues is the ideal place -- we try to triage all incoming issues, the more specific the repro the easier it is to address but we will take a look at everything that comes in.
  • I have created a small anti-depression script
    4 projects | dev.to | 5 Mar 2024
    Install Node.js (or Bun, or Deno, or whatever JS runtime you prefer) if it's not there
  • How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024
    QUIC is very exciting, after seeing what it can do for performance in Cloudflare network and Cloudflare workers, I can't wait to finally see it in Deno[0] 1.41.

    [0] https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/21942#issuecomment-192...

  • Unison Cloud
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2024
    So as an end user it's kind of like https://deno.com/ where you buy into a runtime + comes prepacked with DBs (k/v stores), scheduling, and deploy stuff?

    > by storing Unison code in a database, keyed by the hash of that code, we gain a perfect incremental compilation cache which is shared among all developers of a project. This is an absolutely WILD feature, but it's fantastic and hard to go back once you've experienced it. I am basically never waiting around for my code to compile - once code has been parsed and typechecked once, by anyone, it's not touched again until it's changed.

    Interesting. Whats it like upgrading and managing dependencies in that code? I'd assume it gets more complex when it's not just the Union system but 3rd party plugins (stuff interacting with the OS or other libs).

  • Deno in 2023
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024
    ~90MB+ at this stage and do now allow compression without erroring out. Deploying ala Golang is not feasible at that level but could well be down the line if this dev branch is picked up again!

    The exe output grew from from ~50MB to plus ~90MB from 2021 to 2024: https://github.com/denoland/deno/discussions/9811 which mean Deno is worse than Node.js's pkg solution by a decent margin.

  • Mini site for recommending songs using Svelte & Deno
    2 projects | dev.to | 3 Feb 2024
    Behind the scenes is a simple Sveltekit-powered server function to fetch a Spotify client token then find a user's recommendation playlist and its track information. A Deno edge function to performs this data fetch and renders server-side Svelte.
  • Supercharge your app with user extensions using Deno JavaScript runtime
    4 projects | dev.to | 24 Jan 2024
    If your application is written in JavaScript, integrating it with JavaScript extensions is a no-brainer. However, Secutils.dev is entirely written in Rust. How would I even begin? Fortunately, I recently came across an excellent blog post series explaining how to implement your JavaScript runtime in a Rust application with Deno:
  • Deno, the next-generation JavaScript runtime
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
  • Oxlint – written in Rust – 50-100 Times Faster than ESLint
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2023

What are some alternatives?

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import-maps - How to control the behavior of JavaScript imports

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jsdelivr - A free, fast, and reliable Open Source CDN for npm, GitHub, Javascript, and ESM

typescript-language-server - TypeScript & JavaScript Language Server

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web

pnpm - Fast, disk space efficient package manager

eleventy-high-performance-blog - A high performance blog template for the 11ty static site generator.

dayjs - ⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API

bun - Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

fast-base64 - Fastest base64 on the web, with Wasm + SIMD

Koa - Expressive middleware for node.js using ES2017 async functions