The State of Node.js
summary
Project activity hits about 3,500 pull requests and 3,200 commits year to date with roughly 250 new contributors, and tests run across 55 OS/arch combos achieving 95% JavaScript test coverage and 91% C++ coverage. Core ships HTTP/2 with a demo of WebSockets over HTTP/2 multiplexing 5 simultaneous WebSockets alongside regular HTTP and yielding ~10x latency improvements in benchmarks. Experimental worker threads, N-API for ABI stability, improved heap snapshots, trace events and a built-in diagnostic report are all advancing toward stabilization.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:46Massive Activity
- 4:00Releases!
- 5:35What we've been working on
- 8:44Workers
- 13:43Tracing & Diagnostics
- 20:36Improved Promises
- 24:21Improved Web Standards Alignment
- 27:27Internal Refactoring
