An Update on Fresh

Fresh is a simple web framework based on the latest web standards that we built and use quite heavily here at Deno. We’ve teased the next version for quite some time now, but haven’t yet cut a release. Rest assured we haven’t forgotten about it. In fact, a pre-release version of Fresh 2 is being used in production here at Deno — on our main website as well as on Deno Deploy. Whenever we post an update regarding Deno on any of our social channels, many of you ask: What about Fresh 2? After all, we have announced plans to start working on Fresh 2 a long while ago and it isn’t out yet a year later. So this blog post is an update on where we’re at. Why Fresh 2? The first version of Fresh was originally created as a simple way to build websites leveraging the latest web technologies available in Deno. It quickly rose in popularity among Deno users, so much so that Fresh 1.0 became one of the top starred GitHub frontend projects that year. Since then, we pushed many improvements, like bec ... Read full article.