Ep. 98 Getting Started with Deno and MongoDB

This is a podcast episode titled, Ep. 98 Getting Started with Deno and MongoDB. The summary for this episode is: <p class="css-1hzcd52 e1top8006">Deno is a “modern” runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that is built in Rust. This makes it very fast!</p> <p class="css-1hzcd52 e1top8006">If you are familiar with Node.js then you will be right at home with Deno. It is very similar but has some improvements over Node.js. In fact, the creator of Deno, Ryan Dahl, also created Node and Deno is meant to be the successor to Node.js.</p> <div class="css-3j8jyl e95637j0"> <div class="css-1j4jw9p e95637j1">Jesse Hall joins Michael to talk about Deno and MongoDB. Check out the <a href= "https://www.mongodb.com/developer/article/getting-started-deno-mongodb/"> article</a> Jesse wrote which covers this topic in more detail. </div> <div class="css-1j4jw9p e95637j1">Checkout Jesse's Video on the topic, on <a href="https://youtu.be/xOgicDUXnrE">YouTube</a>.</div> </div>

Key Takeaways

Guests

What is Deno?

00:32 MIN

Why use Deno over standard Node.JS implementation?

01:16 MIN

Differences between Deno and Node.JS

03:27 MIN

Caching and JSON file handling

01:24 MIN

Support for existing packages

01:10 MIN

Community supported modules and the ability to fetch because there are no drivers or packages to load

01:28 MIN

Deno installation and things to know about its future

01:06 MIN

Today's Hosts

Shane McAllister

|Lead, Developer Advocacy

Michael Lynn

|Principal Developer Advocate

Today's Guests

Jesse Hall

|Senior Developer Advocate, MongoDB

Jesse is a full-stack, self-taught developer with a passion to educate others about all things coding related. He teaches aspiring developers through his YouTube channel codeSTACKr, blogs, and online courses. With over 20 years of web development experience, his favorite topics to teach are JavaScript, React, CSS, and of course MongoDB.