Deno: Embedding deno in other projects

[hephex]

I'm working on a project to create an edge application runtime (similar to fly or Cloudflare's Workers) in Rust, and I couldn't find any good v8 wrapper for Rust.

I appreciate Deno is not meant to be a library and designed to be a standalone TS runtime, but would you be interested in exposing some of its useful primitives (i.e. deno::isolate::Isolate) in a Rust library? Obv I'd be happy to help with this if you think it's viable. I've got a naïve implementation of a web app embedding deno, just renaming main.rs to lib.rs.

[kyranet]

There is a similar suggestion at #1357 👍

[ry]

Yes, we would like to release a crate - we're almost there but have hit a few snags on the "cargo package" step of the process https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/1387

You should be able to include deno as a git submodule and use cargo path dependencies: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-dependencies.html#specifying-path-dependencies
but we'd like to make this a better experience. Any help with "cargo package" would be greatly appreciated.

[hephex]

Yes, at the moment I'm using a submodule pointing to a fork where I added the file lib.rs that exposes the things I need.

Re #1387, I'd like to help with that. Is there anything that you already tried? Any idea on possible solutions?

[ry]

@hephex it’s been a few weeks since I looked at it but I’ve got a WIP branch listed in the issue. I believe it was stuck at uploading to crates.io due to size.

[bartlomieju]

FYI @hephex Deno is available as a crate since late March