Dependency Management

It is unwieldy to have to import the same remote module over and over again. Deno provides some conventions to make managing dependencies easier.

The Deno ecosystem has a convention to re-export all remote dependencies from a deps.ts file at the root of the repo. This keeps remote dependencies organized, and in a single place.

./deps.ts

export * as http from "jsr:@std/http";
export * as path from "jsr:@std/path";

Other files can then import dependencies from the deps.ts file.

./main.ts

import { path } from "./deps.ts";

Doing this makes package version upgrades really easy, as all external dependency specifiers live in the same file.

./main.ts

Run this example locally using the Deno CLI:

deno run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denoland/deno-docs/main/by-example/dependency-management.ts/main

Additional resources:

Example: Importing & Exporting