async_hooks, the new and still experimental API that came out with node 8 got my attention a few weeks back, so I decided to do a bit of exploring as to what it can help me do.

This post was written by Michael Dawson who is a Node.js Runtime Tech Dev @ IBM, #nodejs collaborator and CTC member. He originally posted this piece on the Nodejs @ IBM blog.

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This blog was originally published in the Nodejs @ IBM blog by Sam Roberts.

A new NODE_OPTIONS environment variable is available in 8.0.0, see the 8.x docs. It should land soon in a 6.x minor (most likely 6.12.0) to be available for production…

This weekend I scratched a bit of a long term itch and implemented basic support for the Performance Timeline specification for Node.js core. Hopefully it will land soon.

There are still definitely some rough edges and certainly quite a few issues still to work out…

This post is brought to you by Myles Borins who is a @nodejs ctc member / developer advocate for Google Cloud.

Why is this so exciting?

FULLSTACK 2017: BITS AND PIECES

This post is from Sam Galson, a historian of science turned software engineer. He is a consultant at YLD, helping clients build scalable and resilient infrastructure with containers, Node.js and React. This post first appeared in YLD’s blog.

Below you can find RisingStack’s collection of the most important Node.js updates, projects & tutorials from this week:

Node v8.4.0 (Current) Released