Node.js 12: A decade of Node.js
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Historical milestones and concrete changes: Node 12 enters LTS with V8 7.7 (faster parsing, private class fields), NPM 6.12, and HTTP/2 as the default; diagnostic reports merged into core to capture crashes, memory leaks and high CPU; npm ecosystem hits 1,000,000 packages and the project lists 2,561 contributors; the left-pad incident prompts dependency tooling improvements; odd-numbered releases carry fewer breaking changes and Node 12 promises support through April 2022.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 7:352016 - EXPRESS JOINS NODE.JS FOUNDATION
- 12:552019 - NODE.JS 12 - V8 UPDATED TO V8 7.7
- 13:382019 - NODE.JS 12 - ES6 MODULE SUPPORT
- 19:30WORKING GROUPS
- 20:57NODE.JS BUILD WORKING GROUP
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