What Has Deno Been Up to in the Past Year? New Company, Deploy Service, and Limits

It has been more than a year—what has Deno been doing?

In May 2020 Deno 1.0 was released, accompanied by an introductory article titled “2 minutes to get started with Deno! Is Node.js dead?”

Deno was created as an improved version of Node.js and could eventually replace it, though adoption is challenging because Node.js is already widely used.

So what is Deno’s current status? Have you stopped using Node.js and migrated to Deno? Let’s review what Deno has been working on over the past year.

Deno Announces Formation of a Company

Deno raised $4.9 million in seed funding and established a company to accelerate development, planning to hire full‑time engineers to address issues, fix bugs, and ship updates.

The project will continue to be released under the MIT license.

Introducing Deno Deploy

Deno Deploy resembles a CI/CD tool, but it is more accurately described as “Deno Cloud,” offering free cloud deployment of Deno code.

Users can sign up with a GitHub account, are redirected to a dashboard, and can create their first project, quickly deploying a “hello world” example.

The service is available at https://deno.com/deploy/.

During the initial public beta, Deno Deploy is free with usage limits to prevent abuse:

100 k requests per day and 1 k requests per minute

CPU time of 50 ms per request

512 MB memory

Maximum deployment size of 20 MB

Up to 1 000 modules per deployment

Up to 50 custom domains

In short, Deno has been busy.