I explore new projects every week, and it’s rare that one grabs my attention as much as Deno did. In this post I want to get you up to speed with Deno quickly. We'll compare it with Node.js, and build your first REST API with it. Table of contents What is Deno? Why Deno? Why now? Should you learn Deno? Will it replace Node.js? First-class TypeScript support Similarities and differences with Node.j