Introduction#

Here we are going to discuss about the history of Node.js, version information and it’s current status.

Key events in each year

2009

• 3rd March : The project was named as “node”
• 1st October : First very early preview of npm, the Node package
  manager
• 8th November : Ryan Dahl’s (Creator of Node.js) Original Node.js Talk at JSConf 2009

2010

• Express: A Node.js web development framework
• Socket.io initial release
• 28th April : Experimental Node.js Support on Heroku
• 28th July : Ryan Dahl’s Google Tech Talk on Node.js
• 20th August : Node.js 0.2.0 released

2011

• 31st March : Node.js Guide
• 1st May : npm 1.0: Released
• 1st May : Ryan Dahl’s AMA on Reddit
• 10th July : The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is completed.
  • A comprehensive Node.js tutorial for beginners.
• 16th August : LinkedIn uses Node.js
  • LinkedIn launched its completely overhauled mobile app with new features and new parts under the hood.
• 5th October : Ryan Dahl talks about the history of Node.js and why he created it
• 5th December : Node.js in production at Uber
  • Uber Engineering Manager Curtis Chambers explains why his company completely re-engineered their application using Node.js to increase

efficiency and improve the partner and customer experience.

2012

• 30th January : Node.js creator Ryan Dahl steps away from Node’s day-to-day
• 25th June : Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out
• 20th December : Hapi, a Node.js framework is released

2013

• 30th April : The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js
• 17th May : How We Built eBay’s First Node.js Application
• 15th November : PayPal releases Kraken, a Node.js framework
• 22nd November : Node.js Memory Leak at Walmart
  • Eran Hammer of Wal-Mart labs came to the Node.js core team complaining of a memory leak he had been tracking down for months.
• 19th December : Koa - Web framework for Node.js

2014

• 15th January : TJ Fontaine takes over Node project
• 23rd October : Node.js Advisory Board
  • Joyent and several members of the Node.js community announced a proposal for a Node.js Advisory Board as a next step towards a fully open

governance model for the Node.js open source project.

• 19th November : Node.js in Flame Graphs - Netflix
• 28th November : IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 Javascript

2015

Q1

• 14th January : IO.js 1.0.0
• 10th Febraury : Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation
  • Joyent, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, Fidelity, SAP and The Linux Foundation Join Forces to Support Node.js Community With Neutral and Open Governance
• 27th Febraury : IO.js and Node.js reconciliation proposal

Q2

• 14th April : npm Private Modules
• 28th May : Node lead TJ Fontaine is stepping down and leaving Joyent
• 13th May : Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation

Q3

• 2nd August : Trace - Node.js performance monitoring and debugging
  • Trace is a visualized microservice monitoring tool that gets you all the metrics you need when operating microservices.
• 13th August : 4.0 is the new 1.0

Q4

• 12th October : Node v4.2.0, first Long Term Support release
• 8th December : Apigee, RisingStack and Yahoo join the Node.js Foundation
• 8th & 9th December : Node Interactive
  • The first annual Node.js conference by the Node.js Foundation

2016

Q1

• 10th February : Express becomes an incubated project
• 23rd March : The leftpad incident
• 29th March : Google Cloud Platform joins the Node.js Foundation

Q2

• 26th April : npm has 210.000 users

Q3

• 18th July : CJ Silverio becomes the CTO of npm
• 1st August : Trace, the Node.js debugging solution becomes generally available
• 15th September : The first Node Interactive in Europe

Q4

• 11th October : The yarn package manager got released
• 18th October : Node.js 6 becomes the LTS version

Reference

1. “History of Node.js on a Timeline” [Online]. Available : [https://blog.risingstack.com/history-of-node-js]