Serverless Deployment with Deno Deploy

In this guide, we'll show you how to deploy serverless functions using Deno Deploy.

Prerequisite: A Deno Project

If you don't have a Nx Deno project yet, you can easily create a new one with the following command:

This creates a single Deno application.

You can also add a new Deno application to an existing Nx monorepo workspace. Make sure you have the @nx/deno package installed:

Then generate a new Deno app with the following command:

Configuring Deno Deploy

First configure your Deno Deploy project:

1. Push your repository to GitHub.
2. Go to Deno dashboard and set up your Deno project. You need to authorize GitHub to allow access to your repositories, then you need to specify the main file (e.g. src/main.ts), and the production branch (e.g. main).
3. Generate an access token from your account settings page. Copy the new token somewhere.
4. Add an entry to the project's .env file: DENO_DEPLOY_TOKEN=<token-from-previous-step> (create this file if needed, and add it to .gitignore so you don't commit it)
5. Install the deployctl CLI tool.

deployctl is a CLI that allows us to deploy our Deno project. We can embed that into our Nx project by creating a run-command. The @nx/deno plugin already comes with a setup-deploy generator that helps with that. Just run:

This adds a new target to your project.json

Deploy

Once you are done the above steps, you can deploy and view your Deno app using the following command:

You can find the production URL from the Deno dashboard (e.g. https://acme-denoapp.deno.dev/). Browsing to the production URL should return the default JSON message: { "message": "Hello denoapp" }.