A lot of interesting things have happened with the convergence of io.js and Node.js. The latest Node.js (v4.2.1 at the time of writing) is based on io.js v3.x. In the io.js v2.0.0 release, I added the ability to specify a custom lookup function to net.createConnection. It allows one to do fun things like cache a dns lookup or add certain tracing logic into lookups. This is a quite specific use case, but can really improve performance in a lot of cases. Below is an example of implementing a custom lookup in Node’s http client. This is done merely to show the new capabilities, but I would not recommend using this particular solution in a production environment without understanding the implications.

Recently, I’ve seen a few people asking about running both node.js and iojs concurrently, especially during the development lifecycle of an application. There are a couple of routes that one can take to accomplish this. node-bin / iojs-bin Both node-bin and iojs-bin are packages on the npm registry. …