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Here's a pretty good example of how a proxy can be used from Node.js source code: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f074612b744fecfd1f79fd...

comment by snek · 2018-05-18 · in Proxy, a new JavaScript ES6 feature

Builtin fetch was proposed recently, here is the issue: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/19393

comment by ilkkao · 2018-04-24 · in The Node.js Project Introduces Latest Release Line: Node.js 10.x

Be aware that theres some ongoing issues like this one for 9.9.0: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/19519 Other than that, congratz to the Node team!

comment by randiantech · 2018-03-21 · in Node.js v9.9.0

…with file systems using uint64s, as node.js discovered when trying to use JS Number for inodes ( https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115 ) So things that actually need large numbers don't work anyway.

comment by kllrnohj · 2018-02-27 · in Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps

It will happen. Most likely Node 11 I'd estimate - 10 seems a little close for landing it https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15126

comment by BillinghamJ · 2018-02-15 · in Promises are not neutral enough

…and can block your event loop for hundreds of milliseconds or even seconds as RSS increases. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/14917

comment by jorangreef · 2018-01-26 · in How a fix in Go 1.9 sped up our Gitaly service by 30x

…on a single core (Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz). Here is an explanation of the difference: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12114 The Ronomon Base64 addon also ships with a fuzz test ( https://github.com/ronomon/base64/blob/master/t…

comment by jorangreef · 2018-01-18 · in Fast base64 encoding and decoding

…performance issue they reference was funny. "you run perf... no you should run perf... no you..." https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/14917

comment by bjornlouser · 2018-01-10 · in The State of Atom's Performance

…pool, in order to hack around the GC, if I understand correctly. See the relevant Node issue here: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/14917

comment by jorangreef · 2018-01-04 · in Fork is not my favourite syscall

…a DNS lookup, try the address and if it fails will give up. Look at the node.js code for example: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/net.js . Look for "lookupAndConnect". The high-availability responsibility has been moved to…

comment by noncoml · 2017-12-16 · in The MIME guys: How two Internet gurus changed e-mail (2011)

Bare `await` (REPL-only) came in Chrome 62 - and it's on the way to Node soon. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15566

comment by STRML · 2017-11-15 · in Node.js v9.2.0

There are a bunch of linked issues at https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/13815 and https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/16991 , such as https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues... .

comment by dikaiosune · 2017-10-31 · in Node.js 8 Moves into Long-Term Support, Node.js 9 Becomes Current Release Line

https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/changelogs/CH...

comment by apearson · 2017-10-31 · in Node.js 8 Moves into Long-Term Support, Node.js 9 Becomes Current Release Line

…for nodejs 8.x exceeds the support period for OpenSSL 1.0.x First attempt was made here[0] [0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11828

comment by nikcub · 2017-10-25 · in Node v8.8.0

scrypt: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8417

comment by jorangreef · 2017-10-25 · in Node v8.8.0

…in other projects either, NodeJS for example has a relatively small number of large files ( https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/src/node.cc ).

comment by Cthulhu_ · 2017-10-05 · in Show HN: Encrypted VPN in 2k lines of Go

…syntax with (most) existing npm modules: import * as fs from 'fs'; import { map } from 'lodash'; https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14369#issuecomment-32903...

comment by styfle · 2017-09-13 · in Using ES modules natively in Node.js

I asked about the import syntax[0] and got an answer on GitHub. [0]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14369#issuecomment-32903...

comment by styfle · 2017-09-13 · in Node v8.5.0

…the event queue. Can reading larger chunks at a time and buffering be used to speed that up? [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2736#issuecomment-1386... [2] "This can be implemented with either a 'macro-task' mechanism such as…

comment by skybrian · 2017-08-27 · in Async Iterators: These Promises Are Killing My Performance

…community feels, as well as non-code work. For example, look at Rod Vagg's contributions to node: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commits?author=rvagg At least from the first page, it seems he's mostly working on documentation, specifically…

comment by jamescostian · 2017-08-25 · in Rod Vagg's statement on the request to be removed from the Node.js CTC

"Again"? Node has 7,660 forks and counting: https://github.com/nodejs/node It's only notable if any substantial portion of the community forks. The "previous" fork, Io.js, was key moment for Node. Because that was about fundamental…

comment by StevePerkins · 2017-08-24 · in Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership – The New Stack

…closest representable double. So node will sometimes identify two different files as the same file. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115

comment by ridiculous_fish · 2017-08-24 · in JavaScript is Eating the World

…to the code of conduct, then they would have removed it when the edited the rest of the readme. https://github.com/nodejs/node

comment by gizmo686 · 2017-08-23 · in Node.js is forked to Ayo.js (pronounced like “IO”)

…be necessary anymore. Some context: https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/05/energizing-atom-with-... https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/13877

comment by hashseed · 2017-08-19 · in Towards a JavaScript Binary AST

…probably already aware of. Apparently it uses istanbul for JS coverage and gcov for V8. Also, https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#s... says that `make test` runs tests, presumably from…

comment by exikyut · 2017-08-18 · in Exagear: Run x86 Applications on Raspberry Pi

From: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/14644#issuecomment-321... All, thank you for the amusing and fun feedback. It pleases us all to no end that the most beloved feature of Node.js is a Teapot. I think it's safe for us to leave this…

comment by Tade0 · 2017-08-12 · in HTTP Error Code 418 I'm a Teapot is about to be removed from Node

node.js: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/14644 golang: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21326 ASP.NET: https://github.com/aspnet/HttpAbstractions/issues/915

comment by raulk · 2017-08-11 · in Proposal to remove the iconic HTTP 418 I'm a Teapot status code from frameworks

…Pot Control Protocol) and one could strongly argue that it doesn't belong in an HTTP library. [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/14644

comment by throwaway2016a · 2017-08-11 · in HTTP Error Code 418 I'm a Teapot is about to be removed from Node

Still can't get a debugger; statement to break... https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7593

comment by Phlow · 2017-08-10 · in Node 8.3.0 released

…has been deprecated for some time now ([1], [2]). [1]: < https://nodejs.org/api/domain.html> [2]: < https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/66>

comment by tannhaeuser · 2017-07-23 · in Why I’m Frustrated with Go

…problem is when you try to use them to represent 64 bit integers, you get problems such as this: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115

comment by Franciscouzo · 2017-06-27 · in Get Started with Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack

The good news appears to be that this has prompted some upstream discussion. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/13801

comment by technion · 2017-06-20 · in Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids

A mature framework should not have this kind of problems https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115

comment by patchguard · 2017-05-31 · in Tad, a tabular data viewer

I mean, they've been debating about how to add a promisified API for years (see for example https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5020 ) but nothing has come of it. util.promisify is a welcome addition, but very late for a first step.

comment by NoInkling · 2017-05-31 · in Node v8.0.0 Released

…on the original function. [1]: https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_promisify_origina... [2]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/ef16319effe396622666268c...

comment by idbehold · 2017-05-30 · in Node v8.0.0 Released

…a standard BSD license and comes with patent grant. That discussion went on for a year in the TSC . https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/LICENSE In general, this stuff is not always evident. But the BSD license by itself is not as…

comment by sandGorgon · 2017-04-28 · in Write Fast Apps Using Async Python 3.6 and Redis

…NodeJS: 730 open issues, 4323 closed issues, 324 open pull requests, 7201 closed pull requests: https://github.com/nodejs/node Ansible: 1863 open issues, 9204 closed issues, 1084 pull requests, 11762 closed pull requests:…

comment by scrollaway · 2017-04-24 · in A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”

Lol, love commits that reference voodoo... https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d4d6986551

comment by NKCSS · 2017-04-13 · in Node v7.9.0 Released

…end up having to teach it to every new (big) project. Here are examples where it has gone okay: https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/63243bcb330408d511b3945c... https://github.com/golang/go/tree/964639cc338db650ccadeafb74... Where you are…

comment by liveoneggs · 2017-03-31 · in How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build

…Node upgraded v8 to 5.7 [1] & async functions as fast as promises [2] - Optimizations in fs[3] [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11752 [2] https://v8project.blogspot.ca/2017/02/v8-release-57.html [3]…

comment by chmln · 2017-03-31 · in Optimize your Node app by upgrading Node.js

…considerable effort). And current 5.7 issues seem to live here: https://github.com/nodejs/v8/issues https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7a77daf24344db7942e34c... https://github.com/v8/v8/releases

comment by pas · 2017-03-02 · in V8: A Tale of TurboFan

…But there's still quite a bit more code needed to finish off this implementation. Discussion here: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2398 I'm grateful to all the awesome folks that worked on these implementations, and this isn't meant…

comment by feross · 2017-02-27 · in A solution for enabling UDP in the web

The linked PR[0] says it's just using the file: syntax [0] - https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10739

comment by SlashmanX · 2017-02-23 · in Node.js 7.6 Released

Indeed, a memory leak: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9339 / https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=5582

comment by ronjouch · 2017-02-03 · in Node v7.5.0 Released

Promises are coming: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5020

comment by alleycat · 2017-02-03 · in Node v7.5.0 Released

Yep, should be soon, it's already going into 7.5.1 test builds https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11062#issuecomment-27658... Instructions are there on how to install the test build it with nvm, so you can start using it already :)

comment by campers · 2017-02-03 · in Node v7.5.0 Released

…or revert to the OpenSSL one with `--use-openssl-ca`, `SSL_CERT_DIR` and `SSL_CERT_FILE`. See: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/api/cli.md#--... The PR is pretty good: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8334/files

comment by dorianm · 2017-02-03 · in Node v7.5.0 Released

It's a shame the v8 5.5 backport ( https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11029 ) didn't make it in but it looks like it won't be long.

comment by hobozilla · 2017-02-03 · in Node v7.5.0 Released

Missing Node.js which has 30k stars and 5.4k forks... Second to Swift. https://github.com/nodejs/node

comment by nodesocket · 2017-01-03 · in Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

Typical node being ninja stealth. I guess not technically a language on it's own. https://github.com/nodejs/node

comment by eddieone · 2017-01-03 · in Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub