Deno on AWS with SST

Create and deploy a Deno app to AWS with SST.

We are going to build an app with Deno, add an S3 Bucket for file uploads, and deploy it to AWS in a container with SST.

Before you get started, make sure to configure your AWS credentials.

Examples

We also have a few other Deno examples that you can refer to.

Build a hit counter with Deno and Redis

1. Create a project

Let’s start by creating our Deno app.

deno init aws-deno

Init Deno Serve

Replace your main.ts with the following.

Deno.serve(async (req) => {
  const url = new URL(req.url);

  if (url.pathname === "/" && req.method === "GET") {
    return new Response("Hello World!");
  }

  return new Response("404!");
});

This starts up an HTTP server by default on port 8000.

Init SST

Make sure you have SST installed globally.

sst init

This’ll create an sst.config.ts file in your project root.

2. Add a Service

To deploy our Deno app, let’s add an AWS Fargate container with Amazon ECS. Update your sst.config.ts.

async run() {
  const vpc = new sst.aws.Vpc("MyVpc");
  const cluster = new sst.aws.Cluster("MyCluster", { vpc });

  cluster.addService("MyService", {
    loadBalancer: {
      ports: [{ listen: "80/http", forward: "8000/http" }],
    },
    dev: {
      command: "deno task dev",
    },
  });
}

This creates a VPC with an ECS Cluster, and adds a Fargate service to it.

The dev.command tells SST to instead run our Deno app locally in dev mode.

Start dev mode

Run the following to start dev mode. This’ll start SST and your Deno app.

sst dev

Once complete, click on MyService in the sidebar and open your Deno app in your browser.

3. Add an S3 Bucket

Let’s add an S3 Bucket for file uploads. Add this to your sst.config.ts below the Vpc component.

const bucket = new sst.aws.Bucket("MyBucket");

Link the bucket

Now, link the bucket to the container.

cluster.addService("MyService", {
  // ...
  link: [bucket],
});

This will allow us to reference the bucket in our Deno app.

4. Upload a file

We want a POST request made to the / route to upload a file to our S3 bucket. Let’s add this below our Hello World route in our main.ts.

if (url.pathname === "/" && req.method === "POST") {
  const formData: FormData = await req.formData();
  const file: File | null = formData?.get("file") as File;

  const params = {
    Bucket: Resource.MyBucket.name,
    ContentType: file.type,
    Key: file.name,
    Body: file,
  };
  const upload = new Upload({
    params,
    client: s3,
  });
  await upload.done();

  return new Response("File uploaded successfully.");
}

Add the imports. We’ll use the extra ones below.

import { Resource } from "sst";
import {
  S3Client,
  GetObjectCommand,
  ListObjectsV2Command,
} from "@aws-sdk/client-s3";
import { Upload } from "@aws-sdk/lib-storage";
import { getSignedUrl } from "@aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner";

const s3 = new S3Client();

And install the npm packages.

deno install npm:sst npm:@aws-sdk/client-s3 npm:@aws-sdk/lib-storage npm:@aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner

5. Download the file

We’ll add a /latest route that’ll download the latest file in our S3 bucket. Let’s add this below our upload route in main.ts.

if (url.pathname === "/latest" && req.method === "GET") {
  const objects = await s3.send(
    new ListObjectsV2Command({
      Bucket: Resource.MyBucket.name,
    }),
  );
  const latestFile = objects.Contents!.sort(
    (a, b) =>
      (b.LastModified?.getTime() ?? 0) - (a.LastModified?.getTime() ?? 0),
  )[0];
  const command = new GetObjectCommand({
    Key: latestFile.Key,
    Bucket: Resource.MyBucket.name,
  });
  return Response.redirect(await getSignedUrl(s3, command));
}

Test your app

To upload a file run the following from your project root. You might have to go to the MyService tab in the sidebar and accept the Deno permission prompts.

curl -F file=@deno.json http://localhost:8000/

This should upload the deno.json. Now head over to http://localhost:8000/latest in your browser and it’ll show you what you just uploaded.

5. Deploy your app

To deploy our app we’ll first add a Dockerfile.

FROM denoland/deno

EXPOSE 8000

USER deno

WORKDIR /app

ADD . /app

RUN deno install --entrypoint main.ts

CMD ["run", "--allow-all",  "main.ts"]

Now to build our Docker image and deploy we run:

sst deploy --stage production

You can use any stage name here but it’s good to create a new stage for production. This’ll give the URL of your Deno app deployed as a Fargate service.

✓  Complete
   MyService: http://prod-MyServiceLoadBalanc-491430065.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com

Connect the console

As a next step, you can setup the SST Console to git push to deploy your app and view logs from it.

SST Console Autodeploy

You can create a free account and connect it to your AWS account.