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Phil Hawksworth

Phil Hawksworth

Phil is Head of Developer Relations at Deno. With a passion for browser technologies, and the empowering properties of the web, he loves seeking out ingenuity and simplicity, especially in places where over-engineering is common. After 25 years of building web applications for companies such as Google, Apple, Nike, R/GA, and The London Stock Exchange, Phil has worked to challenge traditional technical architectures in favour of simplicity and effectiveness. Phil is co-author of “Modern Web Development on the Jamstack” (O’Reilly, 2019).
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Dabbling With Deno — Tales From a Web Developer Playing With a New Toy
Node Congress 2025Node Congress 2025
26 min
Dabbling With Deno — Tales From a Web Developer Playing With a New Toy
After many years and many projects using web technologies, Phil is becoming increasingly excited about changing up some of the tools that are his usual security blanket. After repeatedly campaigning for large clients to embrace tools from the NodeJS ecosystem while it was maturing, why would he consider disrupting that?In this talk, Phil will speedrun features and utilities of Deno that have him excited, and share information about plans to help the JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems continue to thrive. We'll look at things like package management and publishing, testing and tooling, writing and hosting serverless functions, and more. All while exposing how and why Phil was once daunted by embracing TypeScript, but is now finding new comfort in the emerging tools on offer.
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