Node.js: The New and the Experimental
summary
Node.js delivers two major releases a year with even-numbered lines promoted to LTS (April release, October promotion), and Node 16 is current as of April 2021 with Node.js 16 released Apr 2021; LTS Oct 2021. Project uses a four-level stability index (experimental/stable/legacy/deprecated) and ships notable items: pre-built Apple Silicon binaries, V8 9.0, npm 7 (workspaces, npm diff), crypto.randomUUID and AbortController backports. Many features live behind runtime or build flags (async_local_storage, diagnostics_channel, inspector, trace_events, webcrypto, WASI, ESM loaders and top-level await) and some require compiling from source.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Project roadmap and releases
- 11:38API stability index
- 16:46Experimental features
- 25:30Stable features and summary
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