Deno CLI Subcommands

The Deno CLI (Command Line Interface) allows you to interact with the Deno runtime environment from your terminal or command prompt. The CLI has a number of subcommands that can be used to perform different tasks, check the links below for more information on each subcommand.

Execution

• deno run - run a script
• deno serve - run a web server
• deno task - run a task
• deno repl - starts a read-eval-print-loop
• deno eval - evaluate provided script

Dependency management

• deno add - add dependencies
• deno approve-scripts - manage lifecycle scripts of npm packages
• deno audit - audit dependencies
• deno cache - (Deprecated. Please use deno install)
• deno install - install a dependency or a script
• deno uninstall - uninstall a dependency or a script
• deno remove - Remove dependencies
• deno outdated - view or update outdated dependencies

Tooling

• deno bench - benchmarking tool
• deno check - type check your program without running it
• deno compile - compile a program into a standalone executable
• deno completions - generate shell completions
• deno coverage - generate test coverage reports
• deno create - scaffold a new project from a template
• deno doc - generate documentation for a module
• deno deploy - Manage and publish your projects on the web
• deno fmt - format your code
• deno info - inspect an ES module and all of its dependencies
• deno init - create a new project
• deno jupyter - run a Jupyter notebook
• deno lint - lint your code
• deno lsp - language server protocol integration
• deno publish - publish a module to JSR
• deno test - run your tests
• deno types - print runtime types
• deno upgrade - upgrade Deno to the latest version
• deno x - run an npm or JSR package

Other

• Unstable feature flags
• Integrating the Deno LSP