🦕 Running your first Deno script

• Hacker News API

  82 10,876 0.0

  Documentation and Samples for the Official HN API

  

  Since we will interact with the Hacker News API, let's clear the main.ts file and define the baseURL variable as follows:

• TypeScript

  1,302 97,832 9.9 TypeScript

  TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  

  Modern: Deno is built with modern technologies and follows a modern philosophy; it natively supports TypeScript and ES modules; it doesn't require a centralized package management solution; it also provides useful developer tools out of the box such as an opinionated source code formatter and a testing framework

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• node

  916 103,479 9.9 JavaScript

  Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

  

  In this post, we are going from zero to running a small but nontrivial script that fetches comments from Hacker News in real time using Deno, a new runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript created by Ryan Dahl, the original creator of Node.js.

• deno

  448 92,841 9.9 Rust

  A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

  

  // main.ts import { sleep } from "https://deno.land/x/sleep/mod.ts"; // ... async function streamComments() { let id = await getMaxItemID(); while (true) { const item = await getItemByID(id); if (!item) { await sleep(5); continue; } // Print only items that are visible comments const { type, deleted, dead } = item; const removed = deleted || dead || false; if (type === "comment" && !removed) { // Get the comment's author, if any const author = item.by ?? "unknown author"; // Get the comment's URL on HN website const hnURL = `https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=${id}`; // Print the comment console.log(`\nRead new comment by ${author} on ${hnURL}`); console.log(item); } id += 1; } }

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