deno repl
, interactive scripting prompt
Command line usage:
deno repl [OPTIONS] [-- [ARGS]...]
Starts a read-eval-print-loop, which lets you interactively build up program state in the global context. It is especially useful for quick prototyping and checking snippets of code.
TypeScript is supported, however it is not type-checked, only transpiled.
--cert
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Load certificate authority from PEM encoded file.
--conditions
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Use this argument to specify custom conditions for npm package exports. You can also use DENO_CONDITIONS env var. .
--config
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Short flag: -c
Configure different aspects of deno including TypeScript, linting, and code formatting. Typically the configuration file will be called deno.json
or deno.jsonc
and automatically detected; in that case this flag is not necessary.
--env-file
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Load environment variables from local file Only the first environment variable with a given key is used. Existing process environment variables are not overwritten, so if variables with the same names already exist in the environment, their values will be preserved. Where multiple declarations for the same environment variable exist in your .env file, the first one encountered is applied. This is determined by the order of the files you pass as arguments.
--eval
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Evaluates the provided code when the REPL starts.
--eval-file
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Evaluates the provided file(s) as scripts when the REPL starts. Accepts file paths and URLs.
--location
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Value of globalThis.location used by some web APIs.
--no-config
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Disable automatic loading of the configuration file.
--preload
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A list of files that will be executed before the main module.
--seed
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Set the random number generator seed.
--v8-flags
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To see a list of all available flags use --v8-flags=--help
Flags can also be set via the DENO_V8_FLAGS environment variable. Any flags set with this flag are appended after the DENO_V8_FLAGS environment variable.
--cached-only
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Require that remote dependencies are already cached.
--frozen
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Error out if lockfile is out of date.
--import-map
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Load import map file from local file or remote URL.
--lock
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Check the specified lock file. (If value is not provided, defaults to "./deno.lock").
--no-lock
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Disable auto discovery of the lock file.
--no-npm
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Do not resolve npm modules.
--no-remote
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Do not resolve remote modules.
--node-modules-dir
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Sets the node modules management mode for npm packages.
--reload
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Short flag: -r
Reload source code cache (recompile TypeScript) no value Reload everything jsr:@std/http/file-server,jsr:@std/assert/assert-equals Reloads specific modules npm: Reload all npm modules npm:chalk Reload specific npm module.
--vendor
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Toggles local vendor folder usage for remote modules and a node_modules folder for npm packages.
Debugging options Jump to heading#--inspect
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Activate inspector on host:port [default: 127.0.0.1:9229]
--inspect-brk
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Activate inspector on host:port, wait for debugger to connect and break at the start of user script.
--inspect-wait
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Activate inspector on host:port and wait for debugger to connect before running user code.
Special variables Jump to heading#The REPL provides a couple of special variables, that are always available:
Identifier Description _ Yields the last evaluated expression _error Yields the last thrown errorDeno 1.14.3
exit using ctrl+d or close()
> "hello world!"
"hello world!"
> _
"hello world!"
> const foo = "bar";
undefined
> _
undefined
Special functions Jump to heading#
The REPL provides several functions in the global scope:
Function Description clear() Clears the entire terminal screen close() Close the current REPL session--eval
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--eval
flag allows you to run some code in the runtime before you are dropped into the REPL. This is useful for importing some code you commonly use in the REPL, or modifying the runtime in some way:
$ deno repl --allow-net --eval 'import { assert } from "jsr:@std/assert@1"'
Deno 1.45.3
exit using ctrl+d, ctrl+c, or close()
> assert(true)
undefined
> assert(false)
Uncaught AssertionError
at assert (https://jsr.io/@std/assert/1.0.0/assert.ts:21:11)
at :1:22
--eval-file
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--eval-file
flag allows you to run code from specified files before you are dropped into the REPL. Like the --eval
flag, this is useful for importing code you commonly use in the REPL, or modifying the runtime in some way.
Files can be specified as paths or URLs. URL files are cached and can be reloaded via the --reload
flag.
If --eval
is also specified, then --eval-file
files are run before the --eval
code.
$ deno repl --eval-file=https://docs.deno.com/examples/welcome.ts,https://docs.deno.com/examples/local.ts
Download https://docs.deno.com/examples/welcome.ts
Welcome to Deno!
Download https://docs.deno.com/examples/local.ts
Deno 1.45.3
exit using ctrl+d or close()
> local // this variable is defined locally in local.ts, but not exported
"This is a local variable inside of local.ts"
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If --eval-file
specifies a code file that contains relative imports, then the runtime will try to resolve the imports relative to the current working directory. It will not try to resolve them relative to the code file's location. This can cause "Module not found" errors when --eval-file
is used with module files:
$ deno repl --eval-file=https://jsr.io/@std/encoding/1.0.0/ascii85.ts
error in --eval-file file https://jsr.io/@std/encoding/1.0.0/ascii85.ts. Uncaught TypeError: Module not found "file:///home/_validate_binary_like.ts".
at async :2:13
Deno 1.45.3
exit using ctrl+d or close()
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Tab completions are crucial feature for quick navigation in REPL. After hitting tab
key, Deno will now show a list of all possible completions.
$ deno repl
Deno 1.45.3
exit using ctrl+d or close()
> Deno.read
readTextFile readFile readDirSync readLinkSync readAll read
readTextFileSync readFileSync readDir readLink readAllSync readSync
Keyboard shortcuts Jump to heading# Keystroke Action Ctrl-A, Home Move cursor to the beginning of line Ctrl-B, Left Move cursor one character left Ctrl-C Interrupt and cancel the current edit Ctrl-D If line is empty, signal end of line Ctrl-D, Del If line is not empty, delete character under cursor Ctrl-E, End Move cursor to end of line Ctrl-F, Right Move cursor one character right Ctrl-H, Backspace Delete character before cursor Ctrl-I, Tab Next completion Ctrl-J, Ctrl-M, Enter Finish the line entry Ctrl-K Delete from cursor to end of line Ctrl-L Clear screen Ctrl-N, Down Next match from history Ctrl-P, Up Previous match from history Ctrl-R Reverse Search history (Ctrl-S forward, Ctrl-G cancel) Ctrl-T Transpose previous character with current character Ctrl-U Delete from start of line to cursor Ctrl-V Insert any special character without performing its associated action Ctrl-W Delete word leading up to cursor (using white space as a word boundary) Ctrl-X Ctrl-U Undo Ctrl-Y Paste from Yank buffer Ctrl-Y Paste from Yank buffer (Meta-Y to paste next yank instead) Ctrl-Z Suspend (Unix only) Ctrl-_ Undo Meta-0, 1, ..., - Specify the digit to the argument. –
starts a negative argument. Meta < Move to first entry in history Meta > Move to last entry in history Meta-B, Alt-Left Move cursor to previous word Meta-Backspace Kill from the start of the current word, or, if between words, to the start of the previous word Meta-C Capitalize the current word Meta-D Delete forwards one word Meta-F, Alt-Right Move cursor to next word Meta-L Lower-case the next word Meta-T Transpose words Meta-U Upper-case the next word Meta-Y See Ctrl-Y Ctrl-S Insert a new line DENO_REPL_HISTORY
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By default, Deno stores REPL history in a deno_history.txt
file within the DENO_DIR
directory. The location of your DENO_DIR
directory and other resources, can be found by running the deno info
.
You can use DENO_REPL_HISTORY
environmental variable to control where Deno stores the REPL history file. You can set it to an empty value, Deno will not store the history file.
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