Use only Active LTS or Maintenance LTS releases in production. After six months, odd-numbered releases (9, 11, etc.) become unsupported, and even-numbered releases (10, 12, etc.) move to Active LTS status and are ready for general use. Major Node.js versions enter Current release status for six months. Guarantee that the Node.js environment won't change for a fixed period (30 months), and gives time to update.The Node.js community provides Long Term Support (LTS) releases to guarantee that the environment won't change for a fixed period. One of the best books in software development, sold over 200,000 times.

The Pragmatic Programmer: journey to mastery. 😎Ī result of a continuous release cycle of Node.js is that existing applications are written aiming at a moving target,Īnd applications have to be updated on a regular basis to ensure a working state in the future and no big version and feature jumps occur causing a big amount of adaption. There is a new major Node.js release version every 6 month (on average), so it keeps getting better and easier to use.

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