What has improved, and what are the new features? That's what you're here for 😉. Their technical priorities are:īut now I'm sure you want to get into the changes in v18.

They are doing some great work thinking about the strategic direction for the next 10 years of Node.js. If you are interested in thinking about the future of Node, we recommend checking out The next-10 group. Overall, the community is looking forward to this release with many new features and other benefits in addition to the official release earlier this year that included:ĪPIs: Fetch API is Promise based, providing a cleaner and more concise syntax. If you want to lend a hand, we welcome your ideas or solutions contact us, or if you would like to help us continue supporting open source, you can contribute with an issue here. 'If you use Linux, we recommend using a NodeSource installer.' - From the NPM Documentation We are incredibly proud to support this important piece of the Node ecosystem in addition to building and supporting customers on our Node.js platform - N|Solid. As a team of experts, enthusiasts, and core contributors to the open-source project, we love seeing the progress of Node! We are also one of the primary distributors of the runtime and have been since version 0.x (2014).ĭevelopers download and use our binaries worldwide for their production environments (over 100m a year and growing!). Here at NodeSource,releases are a big deal.

You can read more in the official blog post release or in the OpenJS Blog announcement. Node.js 18 was released on the 19th of April this year.

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