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The Preact Framework for Deno. Dext.ts is heavily inspired by Next.js.

  • Zero config
  • Pre-render pages at build time (SSG)
  • Tiny (example is only 5.75KB of JS)
  • Client hydration
  • Built-in routing
  • Zero config TypeScript support
  • File-system routing
  • Code-splitting, bundling, and tree shaking built in

Installing

To install, run the following command. This will make the dext CLI available in your path.

deno install --allow-read --allow-write --allow-env --allow-net --allow-run --unstable -f -n dext https://deno.land/x/dext@0.9.0/cli.ts

Getting started

To create a new project run dext create myproject. This will scaffold a new dext project in the myproject folder. This folder contains a few files:

  • deps.ts contains all of your projects dependencies.
  • pages/index.tsx is the source for the / of your project.
  • pages/user/[name].tsx is the source for all routes at /user/[name] (e.g. /user/luca and /user/bartek).
  • tsconfig.json is the TypeScript configuration that the project uses.
  • .gitignore tells git to ignore the .dext folder that is created by dext dev and dext build.

Now that you have a project set up, you can start the development server using dext dev. After a few seconds you can view your built page at http://127.0.0.1:3000. When you change any of the files in the pages directory, your project will be rebuilt automatically, and the page will be automatically reloaded in the browser.

When you are ready to deploy to production, run dext build. This will generate a production optimized build. You can start a production webserver to serve this build with dext start.

Example

For an example, see the /example folder. You can create a production build it by running dext build, and then serve it by running dext start. You can also run dext dev to start watching, building, and serving.

You can also see a deployed version of this example on at https://dext.fly.dev.