Build and Dockerize a Blogging API With Deno, Oak, and MySQL

If you’ve been working with Node.js for a while, then the chances are you’ve heard of Deno, the new JavaScript runtime with a special focus on security.

Although it’s still at an early stage, there are a good number of modules available. Thanks to services like Pika, you can even use npm packages inside Deno.

In this project, my goal was to see how much effort it took to build a simple API with authentication using whatever modules were available for the runtime at the moment. I also wanted to find out if I could Dockerize it with ease.