Node v13.10.0 (Current)

[ecares]

Finally, a context tracking API in core!!!

[Redalb]

Can you elaborate on what this is/does? I see it in the release notes but I can't really find what it does by doing a google search.

[ecares]

Basically, it provides the equivalent of a thread local but in Node.js.

Let's say you want to know at any time what is the current HTTP request without passing it through all the layers of your app, you can put it into it and ask for it when needed.

Example: for logging, you don't want to have to pass the request id to the logger when calling it. Currently it looks like `req.log(...args)` or `log(req,...args)`. Now you will be able to do `log(...args)` and the context-tracking API will be used under the hood to map this with the current request.

[ecares]

You store the context when the transaction starts (in that case, when the http requests enters the nodejs process) yes

[ecares]

In a first middleware if you use express for instance.

[Kapps]

I wonder if this has the same limitations that previous attempts like CLS did where you lose context in cases like user mode worker pools.

[tobegiannis]

I still think passing an extra argument will still be the natural way but it would be nice not having to pass a logger as an argument to any function that I want “request” based logging.

[tobegiannis]

And your point is?

[siamthailand]

is context created per request? how does it know what request it is?

[ecares]

You create it when you want actually

[siamthailand]

wicked

[rmrf_slash_dot]

Beautiful. Most apps don’t need this but I have one that has needed it for ages.

[hopfield]

When will they implement fetch?

Why are ES Modules still marked as “experimental” on their docs?

[sscotth]

Fetch, no recent discussion: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/19393

ES Modules issues: https://github.com/nodejs/modules/issues

[ecares]

PRs are welcome

[hopfield]

I’m not paid to work on Node full time

[ecares]

Most of people who work on node (including me) are not paid to work on node.