I haven't had the same success with Deno that I expected. At first, I was shocked by how good the tooling is, and I was super happy with its dependency management. All of the problems started once I started getting into actual business logic.

`redis` and `ioredis` `npm` packages don't work with Deno, even with the Node compat layer (I tried). So you have to use the Deno driver for Redis. But you look up the library for this, and it's experimental: https://deno.land/x/[email protected]

Same deal with Postgres. `pg` would not compile at all. Knex also didn't work (this was an older project). I'm assuming this is because these two packages use native Node.js plugins.

I like Deno a lot, and the out of the box TypeScript support is a gamechanger, but I had a really tough time working with it and actually being productive.

You should take a look at Postgres.js [0] which supports Deno and TypeScript. Version 3.x was released recently and discussed in this HN thread [1].

The client is implemented in JavaScript. Queries can be written using JavaScript template literals.

[0] https://github.com/porsager/postgres [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30794332