Node.js is out with its latest release, the version 10. It is slated to become the platform’s Long-Term Support (LTS) line in October 2018. As per this announcement, it would be considered as the primary vent of the technology to help programmers to go about and develop solutions, moving forward.
The seventh stabled release from Node Foundation, Node.js 10 is going to focus on incremental improvements and the major agenda of the version is to assure more in terms of stability, reliability and performance – to be able to cater to Node users ever more effectively and approvingly.
The different new roles and traits it is going to take up from here, include the ones pertaining to increased consistency, stability, cryptographic support, better capability and various performance level improvements.
This time we see some cannibalization here, with the new release. As it always happens, when a new technology comes in, it replaces or overshadows the earlier outmoded offerings of the same lineage. With this 10 coming in, the promoters have ended up supporting Node.js 4. So, if you still have it with you, you better switch on to later versions.
Getting back to what’s going to be the future, let’s find out what newer and better this release has in store to offer and how is it going to change your experience with Node.js:
It would take in N-API as the officially supported API layer and this will go far in supporting the framework to stably and evenly contribute to different development situations and user types, for building better server-side applications. Further adding to the benefit, N-API will help in bringing down the maintenance costs for native modules by reducing the intensity and amount of friction to allow the framework to effectively process production deployment. This simply means that there will be no module breakage anymore. To make it easy to manage and deploy and to assure it delivers consistent results across versions, N-API is implemented back to the versions 8.x and 6.x to make it safe for users with earlier versions to deploy and upgrade the framework safely and soundly.
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As a long-term active support version, Node.js 10 is going to take in latest functional properties and programming practices to make the most of the prevailing and potential trends in the realm of JavaScript. As a leading runtime environment based on a leveraging I/O model, the version keeps it authentic in terms of approach and practices, taking the reference of core performance architecture from the base releases. It keeps the process conventions aligned with optimized core and adds refined service components to make results more steady and consistent in their traits and form. And this helps it in bringing better stability to the platform.
Node.js 10 allows developers to get enhanced ability to apply codes without putting much efforts, as the language now is more compressed and lean to go about. This makes your life easy with coding in a number of ways. Take for instance, with prototype.toString() you receive the source code text in its exact form. Also, it is well-formatted with proper spacing and supported by helpful comments, to make it really easy and swift to work on the platform. In another case, now you can use the catch clause of try statements without needing a parameter to call and execute it. Further, now you would get to use line separator (U+2028) and paragraph separator (U+2029) symbols with string literals. Which is being made possible by matching JSON. Adding to these leveraging capabilities, now you are able to implement different String variables like String.prototype.trim(), String.prototype.trimStart(), and String.prototype.trimEnd() with V8. All of these come together well to offer enhanced JavaScript competencies. Here’s the list of all changed features.
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It has always been the framework’s agenda to make things more secure for you. With each new release or update, Node.js has tried to address the ever-mounting security issues in the online space. Now, with Node.js 10 it has further made attempt to help you keep your things secret and safe. With the release, the platform is now coming up with OpenSSL 1.x for the first time ever. To make this possible, the teams from OpenSSL team and the Core Infrastructure Initiative have worked closely to bring in the most viable solutions for higher security. And they have well achieved it with ChaCha20 cipher and Polu1305 authenticator. As this is going to allow developers to build architectures based on highly crack-proof processes and encrypted communications. The best part, as it has started with supporting the base version of OpenSSL, it will be easy to upgrade and update it in future.
A lot has been done to enhance the performance of the platform. Node.js developers can now play with codes more dynamically and raise extreme benefits by leveraging on improvements done on promise, async generator, and array parameters. Specifically, you can see the code resources to smoothly flow across the promise chains and async functions, which has been made possible by tuning-up and retreating the deterred nodes and distorted channels. Apart from this, efforts have been made in increasing agility and flexibility of the runtime environment by detecting and resolving performance blocks and process flaws and optimizing the techniques and practices with enhanced connectivity and streaming options. Also, the updated processes are now more prepared to check errors and handle discrepancies with a greater intensity and this allows Node.js 10 to prevent and treat vulnerabilities and limitations in performance.
If you are a Node.js developer and interested in getting the latest version of Node.js, head on to the Node.js foundation and grab the latest release version. In case you need more information on the topic and want to get an advice related to the technology, you can reach us at [email protected].
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