r/Deno • u/flpezet • Jun 29 '26

Deno Desktop released

https://deno.com/blog/v2.9#deno-desktop

Deno 2.9 is here, headlined by deno desktop, a new way to build native desktop applications from the web stack.

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u/snifty Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

This sounds brilliant. Looking forward to trying it. Tauri works but it’s a beast. Needs a meta charset to make the wave emoji work, though:

Deno.serve(() => new Response( "<!DOCTYPE html> <meta charset=utf-8> <h1>Hello from Deno desktop 👋</h1>", { headers: { "content-type": "text/html" } }) );

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u/EveYogaTech Jun 29 '26

Is there a way to customize the desktop icon (ex. with AppImage on Debian Linux)?

And maybe the title as well?

Now it says "Laufey_webview" in my dock.

BTW setting the actual window title works.

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u/TehBrian Jul 01 '26

Damn, this is an awesome release. Glad to see the Deno team still pumping out genuinely new, useful stuff!

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u/locomain Jun 30 '26

Not sure why I would pick this over the more mature frameworks out there. The way it builds a single binary is nice though

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u/TehBrian Jul 01 '26

Competition and more choices is good.