New features in Node.js 8.x

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Node.js 8.x brings a V8 engine bump that measurably improves performance over 6.x and makes async/await usable natively; upgrade to the current LTS (8.9.1 mentioned) and use nvm for local testing but not for production processes. Demos show a small Koa REST API reading/writing files with util.promisify/fs.promises and async/await that works, plus live use of the new inspector and tracing, experimental ES modules (.mjs flag) support, and HTTP/2 available behind a flag; deploy with PM2 or Docker.

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1. 0:00Node.js 8 features
2. 10:55Upgrade to Node.js 8 LTS
3. 23:47REST API with Node.js 8
4. 41:45Async/await in Node.js 8
5. 1:01:42Node.js 8 inspector and tools
6. 1:15:40HTTP/2 in Node.js 8
7. 1:21:19Docker and Node.js 8
8. 1:27:02Q&A

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