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The Awesome Features that Just Landed with Node.js v12

Tierney Cyren on April 25, 2019

This week, we saw the release of Node.js v12, the next Node.js release line that will become LTS. I wanted to go through the various posts that wen...
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James Hickey

Worker threads, upfront, sound like the most useful feature. Especially in more event-driven type node apps that publish events to an event store, etc., this would (I'm assuming without knowing too much about them) be a huge win.

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Tierney Cyren

I am extremely excited for Worker Threads. It's something there have been multiple attempts at previously – both in Node.js itself and in user land modules – but none have been as promising as this implementation.

Massive props to Anna Henningsen, who did a truly massive amount of work on this feature!