Rocketing the Node Commuity Beyond the Edge
summary
Node ecosystem size and concrete outcomes decide whether to watch: 350,000 packages and about 500 new packages a day, nearly 6 billion downloads in a month are the headline numbers; core has ~15,000 commits, ~400 releases and >1,000 collaborators. Concrete builds and results matter too: a small Node app that auto‑updated the Node.js Twitter avatar existed but never deployed, an evangelism working group runs a weekly newsletter and is organizing Wikipedia edits and summarized issue digests, and a single README PR once led to real contributor hiring.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:59Nodes are awesome
- 1:18All built with Node
- 2:50The ecosystem
- 4:01How did we get here
- 4:49Binding Factor
- 5:00Community
- 5:30Node Forward
- 7:16Michael Rogers Quote
- 7:56Open Source
- 10:37Who can contribute
- 10:55Who cant contribute
- 12:27I failed
- 15:56evangelism working group
- 18:43why is evangelism important
- 20:11evangelism working group update
