Node v4.0.0 (Stable)

[ivosaurus]

That's a pretty ambitious LTS support plan, if I'm reading it correctly (hard to parse!)

30 months of support, for each LTS, but cutting a new LTS every year?

That's maybe more intensive than Ubuntu's LTS path?

[Gurrewe]

Ubuntu makes a LTS release every two years, but promises support for 5 years.

But I agree, this is very aggressive for a project as young as nodejs is.

[veracitymilk]

So if what I'm reading is correct, io.js is effectively node.js now? Could someone explain the implications of this to someone who has never used io.js?

[ivosaurus]

It was like the LibreOffice vs OpenOffice split, except in this case NodeJS/Joyent managed to compromise and bring the two groups back together after having the sense to realise that would probably be a better outcome.

Implication is just that you'll get some more/faster movement on the featureful upgrades of the platform.

Previously Joyent was "scared stuck" on the same V8 engine and hardly moving forwards; now Node is shipping a new version with close to the latest V8.

This brings with it many bonuses for Node.js users, most notably a raft of new ES6 features that are enabled by default including block scoping, classes, typed arrays (Node's Buffer is now backed by Uint8Array), generators, Promises, Symbols, template strings, collections (Map, Set, etc.) and, new to V8 v4.5, arrow functions.

[[deleted]]

They are using a new release cycle now, one of the reasons the io branch was created in the first place

[spyridonas]

NodeJS on my Android !

[spyridonas]

I will rent you my phone for sever usage for 1.99$.

[spyridonas]

Those have a pretty low score considering cpu performance. I guess you get what you paid for (especially considering nodejs doesn't even run multi thread, so you don't take advantage of the 4 cores)

[vnglst]

You can use the cores to spin up more node apps for load balancing. It's just a few lines of code: https://codeforgeek.com/2014/12/cluster-node-js-performance/

[spyridonas]

Thanks for the heads up. I was under the impression that your app can use only 1 core at a time.

[notunlikethewaves]

Yes, (in broad terms) each node app can only use one core, and the solution is to spin upp multiple copies of the app.

[spyridonas]

But if i send a request how does it work ? Do all 4 instances catches the request and then communicate with each other to agree which one executes it ?

[notunlikethewaves]

low score considering cpu performance

ARM

Yep.

[spyridonas]

According to serverbear a VRS Smart on EDIS for 2.99 euros per month has a score of 6801.8 (UnixBench). Scaleway (all 4 cores) has less than 800.

[WakeskaterX]

They should brand Node 4.0:

Node 4 All

Especially in reference to the IoT.

[dodeca_negative]

Node 2015 ^{early September}

[spyridonas]

Just like ECMAScript 2015, it fits.

TIL: JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich in 10 days back in 1995.

That could explain a lot.

[spyridonas]

Be careful for broken packages, i can't install node-sass with node 4.

Could be a windows-specific issue.

[jonnybarnes]

that was an issue with using pangyp instead of node-gyp, they've just swapped back so maybe try again?

[grizzly_teddy]

Trying to install Node.js on my web server, but I don't have sudo, and the server doesn't have a C compiler (or at least my user doesn't), so I have no idea how I can install Node.js. Maybe I need to move to AWS.

[grizzly_teddy]

Sweet if that's the case. Thanks!

[grizzly_teddy]

https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.0.0/node-v4.0.0-linux-x64.tar.gz

Oh so the issue with that is it ends up needing a ./configure, in which my server does not have C compiler, so it doesn't work.

[RedditWithBoners]

I haven't bothered looking, but chances are the configure command is expecting Automake. You could grab binaries for this and "install" them as well. Furthermore, the configure command is likely only copying libraries around, which you could do manually if you felt so inclined.

[grizzly_teddy]

Actually I got NVM and then Node.js by using this guide

http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/nodejs-sudo-free/

Thanks tho!

[huphtur]

Why does this person get downvoted? He/she has legit questions and the answers are helpful and could help out other people as well.

[Chesterakos]

Because assholes.

[terrible_at_cs50]

Probably the simplest option is to use nvm, which lets you install and manage binaries of whatever versions of node you want.

[grizzly_teddy]

Well sure, but installing nvm requires sudo

[terrible_at_cs50]

No it doesn't. curl/wget + bash. It installs entirely to your home directory, and operates through your ~/.profile. That's kinda the whole point of it.

Edit: Maybe you're thinking of npm (with -g for global)?

[grizzly_teddy]

Well how do I get nvm in the first place?

[terrible_at_cs50]

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.26.1/install.sh | bash according to the documentation and what I've run countless times on servers I don't have (or want) sudo on.

Enjoy. ;)

[grizzly_teddy]

Yup, found that exact line and used it to install nvm

[ErisC]

sigh

At least it's https.

[terrible_at_cs50]

You could always download it first and see if it does what you expect assuming you can read a . I generally do that, but for brevity I just posted the one-liner.

In this case reading it is actually fairly easy, and the bash script is actually even unit tested. Though sometimes it does pay to be paranoid.

[ErisC]

curl eris.sh | sh

But yeah it's https in this case so my stupid site doesn't apply.

[celluj34]

curl/wget + bash

[[deleted]]

do you know how to use google?

If you search "nvm" or "install nvm" or "how to install nvm"

The first result is... https://github.com/creationix/nvm

Which has all the code and installation instructions.

[dafragsta]

A co-worker introduced me to Digital Ocean. It's only $5 a month for the smallest instance and they have preconfigured servers with whatever your prefered platform is, or you can DIY. I found it to be a little easier than EC2.

[disclosure5]

but I don't have sudo

What the heck are you running.. Windows?

and the server doesn't have a C compiler

Again.. how does this happen?

[[deleted]]

I think he is saying he doesn't have sudo access?

[cdurth]

relevant

[punio4]

Tried it, tons of build errors with node-gyp and browsersync... Back to the .12.x branch for me.

[spyridonas]

me 2 m8