# Nodejs History
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" (opens new window)
- 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 (opens new window)
- 28th July : Ryan Dahl's Google Tech Talk on Node.js (opens new window)
- 20th August : Node.js 0.2.0 released (opens new window)
# 2011
31st March : Node.js Guide
1st May : npm 1.0: Released (opens new window)
- 10th July : The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is completed (opens new window).
A comprehensive Node.js tutorial for beginners.
LinkedIn launched its completely overhauled mobile app with new features and new parts under the hood.
# 2012
- 30th January : Node.js creator Ryan Dahl steps away from Node’s day-to-day (opens new window)
- 25th June : Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out (opens new window)
- 20th December : Hapi, a Node.js framework (opens new window) is released
# 2013
- 30th April : The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js (opens new window)
- 17th May : How We Built eBay’s First Node.js Application (opens new window)
- 15th November : PayPal releases Kraken, a Node.js framework (opens new window)
- 22nd November : Node.js Memory Leak at Walmart (opens new window)
- 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.
# 2014
- 15th January : TJ Fontaine takes over Node project (opens new window)
- 23rd October : Node.js Advisory Board (opens new window)
- 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.
# 2015
# Q1
- 14th January : IO.js 1.0.0 (opens new window)
- 10th Febraury : Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation (opens new window)
- Joyent, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, Fidelity, SAP and The Linux Foundation Join Forces to Support Node.js Community With Neutral and Open Governance
# Q2
- 14th April : npm Private Modules (opens new window)
- 28th May : Node lead TJ Fontaine is stepping down and leaving Joyent (opens new window)
- 13th May : Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation (opens new window)
# Q3
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- Trace is a visualized microservice monitoring tool that gets you all the metrics you need when operating microservices.
- 12th October : Node v4.2.0, first Long Term Support release (opens new window)
- 8th December : Apigee, RisingStack and Yahoo join the Node.js Foundation (opens new window)
- 8th & 9th December : Node Interactive (opens new window)
- The first annual Node.js conference by the Node.js Foundation
- 10th February : Express becomes an incubated project (opens new window)
- 23rd March : The leftpad incident (opens new window)
- 29th March : Google Cloud Platform joins the Node.js Foundation (opens new window)
- 26th April : npm has 210.000 users (opens new window)
- 18th July : CJ Silverio becomes the CTO of npm (opens new window)
- 1st August : Trace, the Node.js debugging solution becomes generally available (opens new window)
- 15th September : The first Node Interactive in Europe (opens new window)
- 11th October : The yarn package manager got released (opens new window)
- 18th October : Node.js 6 becomes the LTS version (opens new window)
- "History of Node.js on a Timeline" [Online]. Available : [https://blog.risingstack.com/history-of-node-js] (opens new window)
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# 2016
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