This blog was written by Jack Xia, with additional contributions from the Node-API working group and project collaborators. Hello everyone! The Node-API working group needs some help from the community to achieve full unit test coverage for the node-addon-api project. If you aren’t familiar with writing native C++ addons for…

This blog was written by Bethany Griggs, with additional contributions from the Node.js Technical Steering Committee and project collaborators. We’re excited to announce that Node.js 17 was released today! Node.js 17 replaces Node.js 16 as our ‘current’ release line, with Node.js 16 being promoted to long-term support (LTS) next week…

This blog was written by A.J. Roberts with contributions from the Node.js Mentorship Initiative team. Thank you to everyone who has been following the Mentorship Initiative. I’ve answered your questions in the OpenJS Slack, but I haven’t shared updates as much as I’d like so I’m writing this post to…

Hello, Node.js users! 👋 The Diagnostics working group is looking for feedback on what ways Node.js users are using the async_hooks API and to elaborate on exactly what about that problem makes async_hooks useful for them. We hope to build higher-level abstractions more purpose-built for the needs of our…

After a few years since the first release of Undici 3 years ago, we have gathered many contributors and many new features. This little HTTP client that Matteo built as an experiment has quickly grown to be extremely stable and performant, leading the way in a renovated effort of bringing…

The Node.js project will complete the winding down of the ecosystem vulnerability reporting program beginning the week of May 18th. This DOES NOT affect the process for reporting vulnerabilities in the Node.js project itself. Those will continue to be handled through our HackerOne program and can be reported as…

This post was contributed by the Node-API team. The reason for this blog post is to explain what motivated us to rename N-API to Node-API. The issue that is tracking the transition was: https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node/issues/420 Background You may have noticed N-API changed to Node-API in the documentation within the Node.js project. N-API…

This post was written by the Node.js Mentorship Initiative. The Node.js Mentorship Initiative is excited to announce a new opening. We are looking to add a new mentee to our initiative. We, therefore, invite developers who are passionate about the Node.js ecosystem and are willing to learn and contribute towards…

This blog was written by Bethany Griggs, with additional contributions from the Node.js Technical Steering Committee. We are excited to announce the release of Node.js 16 today! Highlights include the update of the V8 JavaScript engine to 9.0, prebuilt Apple Silicon binaries, and additional stable APIs. You can download the…