The State of Node Core - Colin Ihrig: ThunderPlains 2019
Channel: Techlahoma
Date: 22/11/2019

This talk will cover the current (as of October 2019) state of Node core. An outline of the major points covered in this talk is shown below. 1. A discussion of the Long Term Support (LTS) schedule, and where the currently supported release lines fit in. 2. New features in Node core. Some of these will come from Node's dependencies such as V8 and libuv. Some of these changes will come from Node itself. I anticipate this list including things like QUIC support Node's much improved out of the box debugging/diagnostics experience. 3. Miscellaneous breaking changes and notable features in Node 13. 4. Upcoming changes on the horizon. These may take the form of open pull requests or features that have not been released yet. 5. Where to go for more information on specific topics. People are often confused on getting general help vs. making a feature request. This section will also briefly touch on the "how to" of contributing to core. ** Exact content is subject to change as the codebase evolves between now (May) and October.

Colin Ihrig is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, a libuv collaborator, and a hapi.js core team member. Colin is the author of Pro Node.js for Developers, and co-author of Full Stack JavaScript Development with MEAN. Colin is currently a software engineer at Joyent, focusing on Node.js development and enterprise support.