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Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

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482Mentions
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123.6KGitHub stars
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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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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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In Finding Critical Open Source Projects
If you had clicked the link, you'd see that it is primary a list of libraries. Admittedly I had not considered that Swift can use native C libraries. I'm not sure whether it makes sense to expect a wrapper library or not, whether that would help. But overall, I'm pretty sure no one is doing nor advancing towards HTTP3 in Swift at the moment, which makes me feel like the Swift community is not a serious player for general development. Some trivia, not necessarily a recommendation: Node.js is the only language I know of working towards HTTP3 support in the platform (also in this link, evidence that I may be biased in my priorities): https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/23064
In Swift System Is Now Open Source
Wow, that resonates quite a lot with me, though I'm not 55 yet. I started my career as a software engineer with web development in the 90's. Everything seemed simpler. Literally. Then, fast forward to 2020. I'll cite you an example of what happened EXACTLY yesterday. I have a web application which is complete and ready to be deployed. It's a backoffice application for one of our e-commerce sites. It's built using Phoenix, so there is a separate assets folder which contains a webpack config and its own package.json as well. The frontend updates require me to update the assets manifest as well. So, we've setup CI for it to automatically do that for each deploy. So, as usual, it simply runs npm install, but, suddenly, everything broke. Remember, this was fine until our previous deploy. It was some weird error from node about not being able t
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o do something with Babel. I had to spend about almost an hour to figure out it was coming from some other package that was making use of Babel. (If you're interested the error is this one[1])). OK fine, we upgraded the babel version as indicated in that issue thread. However, it wasn't compatible with some other package on the OS we were running on. So, now I had to downgrade the entire node version itself to something we knew that worked. We lost a good amount of engineering time simply because of this unwanted complexity. Remember, all I wanted to do was JUST deploy. Our backend code was perfectly fine. Just for one new added feature, we had to pay a price with our time. This is hardly an exception, this is becoming in the norm. [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/32852
In I no longer build software
There are definitely few things which are done in different way in Deno as part of re-design. But that does not mean NodeJS does not take care of it or at least provide the some API to tackle that issue. In this case, Stream interface API in NodeJS are the solution to the problem. They help you build layer over native EventEmitter interface or rather strictly speaking they help extend it. This links might be helpful for you. Backpressuring in Streams - https://nodejs.org/es/docs/guides/backpressuring-in-streams/ Official Docs on Stream API - https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/api/stream.md Note that HTTP server in NodeJS already implements it.
In From Node to Deno

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