This repo holds the code from Tim's tutorial on building a REST API with Deno & Express:

To get started:

deno task dev

You can re-generate the mock user data using the ./generate_data.ts helper.

To generate and run a Docker image, use:

docker compose up --build

Note: By default, the Docker image is not configured to start on boot or restart automatically.

This is to avoid a demo automatically starting when your computer restarts. Edit the Docker config file if you want to modify this.

You can then deploy to a wide variety of hosts that support Docker. As configured, it'll just do a 1:1 copy of what's in the repository - tweak to your needs.

To run the tests, you need to first start the API service. You can do this with deno task start in one terminal, while you run:

deno test -A

... and ...

deno bench -A

See the Deno manual for more information on even more features in Deno's built-in test runner and benchmark tool.

Finally, if you get stuck, head to Deno's Discord server and someone will lend a hand.