Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, today announced that it closed a $21 million Series A round led by Sequoia that brings its total raised to $26 million.

Deno Land recently released Deno 2.3, an update of the Deno runtime that adds support for local NPM packages. Deno 2.3 also brings improvements to deno compile.

The Deno ecosystem is taking root, with a host of tools and services to challenge Node.js. Here are nine projects leveraging Deno for web development, serverless edge hosting, and more.

The Deno JavaScript project has been under development by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl for the past two years and his team of contributors has now released Deno 1.0, which could become just as ...

Deno, a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript, has reached version 1.0. Written in Rust, Deno addresses many design problems in Node.js, but it also faces challenges in developer adoption.

At this point, Deno is a reasonable and fun environment to use for building small private scripting projects in TypeScript. According to Dahl, Deno will never really affect the success of Node.js.