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Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

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Where it is used

  • weather.com — weather.com uses Node.js to power its website. This is the runtime behind their public weather.com site. Source

What people are saying

Expect a blog post shortly, but from v8 we get these language changes: - await/async behind flag (already covered in thread) - Exponentiation operator: > console.log(60**2*24);…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year482 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-11-28 03:40:25 UTC to 2026-11-01 13:22:11 UTC.

0204060801002014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 3 submissions, 11 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 96 mentions; 41 submissions, 55 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 68 mentions; 23 submissions, 45 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 66 mentions; 25 submissions, 41 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 31 mentions; 10 submissions, 21 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 19 mentions; 11 submissions, 8 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 22 mentions; 13 submissions, 9 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 20 mentions; 5 submissions, 15 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 27 mentions; 7 submissions, 20 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 32 mentions; 11 submissions, 21 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 39 mentions; 11 submissions, 28 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 3 submissions, 14 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 31 mentions; 8 submissions, 23 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14311
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC964155
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC682345
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC662541
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC311021
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC19118
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC22139
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC20515
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC27720
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321121
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC391128
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17314
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC31823

What Hacker News says

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tracker1·Dec 17, 2015
I remember it was that way for a long while.. but other than Python 2.x, and having a recent VS (Community Edition works) installed, haven't had many issues... at least no more than I've typically had with Linux. I spend about equal parts of my development time between OSX, Linux and Windows... they all have had pain points for me. The only difference is in OSX dev you're likely to have XCode & homebrew. In windows, you may have VS, and probably won't have Python ^2.7.0 installed. Part of why I've at least participated enough to raise a possible bit of help with the situation[1]. There are times when all you can reasonably do is raise the issue, and suggested fix... there are others where you should proactively fix it. Node/npm's community is very open-source driven, and very diverse. I don't liken it as much worse than any other plat
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form, and far better than most. [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3694
In What the web platform can learn from Node.js: The Darwinism of small modules
undergrowth54·Oct 20, 2015
The author's frustration with the lack of customizable shortcuts is my biggest issue with chrome devtools as well. This is especially frustrating when I just want to pop a debugger statement in the middle of a node.js unit test so I can step through things, but node.js requires that you use the browser for debugging. (EDIT: apparently there is an IDE from jetbrains[1] that lets you do this too) This past Friday I started poking around to see what it would take to write a terminal-based browser in the style of the python debugger and found that the v8 team at Google has been working making the debugger separable from the browser since at least February of this year[2]. [1] https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/ [2] https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/14174a95a597cac7b848fe...
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