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dnt
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denoland / dnt

dnt

Deno to npm package build tool.

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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

Deno to npm package build tool.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-03-19 04:51:18 UTC to 2026-05-22 20:18:09 UTC.

01232022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I want to love Deno. It seems to really modernize TypeScript development. I just haven't had good experiences with it. I spent a day or two migrating a TypeScript project [-1] over to Deno from NodeJS. Here's what I had to do: * Change all of my local imports to something that would work with Deno. That meant appending `.ts` or `index.ts` for folders, except in some cases where Deno requires `.js` * Modify my monorepo to play nice with Deno -- an import map does this easily. Deno has documentation around import maps, but I had to figure out the solution myself. Also, import maps are currently broken in JetBrains IDEs. * Change my NPM imports to something that would work with Deno. The most straightforward thing to do was just change `import "foo"` to `import "npm:foo"`, but this felt hacky so eventually I used https://esm.sh, which worked
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for some packages but not others. * Figure out how to get Lodash working with TypeScript. It's not simple. [0] * Use a hack to get typeorm with sqlite working. [1] * Try out `deno compile`, only to determine that it somehow works differently than `deno run`. My project simply wouldn't work with `deno compile`, probably because my project has some system dependencies that don't get properly linked/included. * Setup my scripts to properly lint my project. Deno has formatting/linting built-in, but it's split across many commands with different usages. For example, I can run `deno fmt` to format my entire project, but I have to give Deno a path to run `check` or `lint`, e.g. `deno check src/index.ts ` * Patch a third-party library that was setting an HTTP header to `null`. NodeJS handles this case just fine, but Deno throws an error [2]. * Attempt to build my UI (astro + react) with Deno. It seems some people have gotten this partially working, but I gave up and stayed on NodeJS for building my UI. This led to me: * Using dnt [3] to build a Deno package for consumption with NodeJS/npm frontend. This was actually surprisingly simple; kudos to the author of the dnt library. After all of that work, I finally was able to use Deno in my project. It was really cool! Unfortunately, both VS Code and IntelliJ with Deno are essentially unusable [4]. Or, at least, unacceptably slow compared to what I had with NodeJS. [-1]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/glitter-boys/tree/sj/deno [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/66073607 [1]: https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/issues/6123#issuecomment-... [2]: https://github.com/Sansossio/twisted/issues/97 [3]: https://github.com/denoland/dnt [4]: https://github.com/denoland/vscode_deno/issues/895
In Deno Cron
Yes, TS code is compiled to run in browsers. You can compile and bundle using `deno bundle` if your project is developed in Deno. Since I'm using Deno for library development, I use the `dnt`[1] tool to compile them into ESM modules later consumed by esbuild in my Node-based projects/toolchains. [1] https://github.com/denoland/dnt
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