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Node.js 20 is now available

by ovaistariq on 4/18/23, 10:23 PM with 98 comments

• by icpmacdo on 4/18/23, 11:26 PM

  What is the standard web application backend framework for Node.js these days, is it Koa? As I understand it express is quite dated because of the callback structure.

  I have been confused recently with the moving best practices. What is the server architecture Next.js is most often plugged into?

• by Already__Taken on 4/18/23, 11:21 PM

  The "Don't talk about deno" release. Quite an interesting feature list. I'm really interested if wasi + a permission prescription + package authorization might allow us sharable cli tools like git hooks and filters that we can trust.

• by hardwaresofton on 4/18/23, 11:49 PM

  With testing built into core, I’m looking forward to the reduction in complexity and number of external testing frameworks.

  I generally chose tape/ava in the past and vitest these days, but it’s awesome that now a very simple testing mechanism is available in core

• by omneity on 4/18/23, 11:23 PM

  Love this. I wonder if we'll eventually have a new merge à la io.js/node.js

  Deno and Node are converging more and more on every release, such a deja vu. The main difference being that deno offers much more as a business than just the "deno" product itself, so an eventual merge wouldn't be so trivial.

  Denode or Nodeno? Who wants to place bets?

• by skwixusu on 4/19/23, 12:05 AM

  Testing, and now permissions might hit LTS in October! The velocity of dev while maintaining an arguably stable API after over a decade now is just admirable.

• by kszyh on 4/19/23, 5:39 AM

  They are so rushed with the numbering, I wonder when they will change to that relative to the year. After all, in a few years there will be a Node 50