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
Section titled “Key events in each year”- 3rd March : The project was named as “node”
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- Express: A Node.js web development framework
- Socket.io initial release
- 28th April : Experimental Node.js Support on Heroku
- 28th July : Ryan Dahl’s Google Tech Talk on Node.js
- 20th August : Node.js 0.2.0 released
- 31st March : Node.js Guide
- 1st May : npm 1.0: Released
- 1st May : Ryan Dahl’s AMA on Reddit
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- A comprehensive Node.js tutorial for beginners.
- LinkedIn launched its completely overhauled mobile app with new features and new parts under the hood.
- Uber Engineering Manager Curtis Chambers explains why his company completely re-engineered their application using Node.js to increase efficiency and improve the partner and customer experience.
- 30th January : Node.js creator Ryan Dahl steps away from Node’s day-to-day
- 25th June : Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out
- 20th December : Hapi, a Node.js framework is released
- 30th April : The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js
- 17th May : How We Built eBay’s First Node.js Application
- 15th November : PayPal releases Kraken, a Node.js framework
- 22nd November : [Node.js Memory Leak at Walmart](http://www.joyent.com/blog/walmart-node-js-memory-leak)
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- 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.
- 15th January : TJ Fontaine takes over Node project
- 23rd October : [Node.js Advisory Board](https://www.joyent.com/blog/node-js-advisory-board)
- 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.
- 14th January : IO.js 1.0.0
- 10th Febraury : [Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation](http://www.joyent.com/about/press/joyent-moves-to-establish-nodejs-foundation)
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- Joyent, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, Fidelity, SAP and The Linux Foundation Join Forces to Support Node.js Community With Neutral and Open Governance
- 14th April : npm Private Modules
- 28th May : Node lead TJ Fontaine is stepping down and leaving Joyent
- 13th May : Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation
- 2nd August : [Trace - Node.js performance monitoring and debugging](http://trace.risingstack.com/)
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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
- 8th December : Apigee, RisingStack and Yahoo join the Node.js Foundation
- 8th & 9th December : [Node Interactive](http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/node-interactive/program/schedule)
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- The first annual Node.js conference by the Node.js Foundation
- 10th February : Express becomes an incubated project
- 23rd March : The leftpad incident
- 29th March : Google Cloud Platform joins the Node.js Foundation
- 26th April : npm has 210.000 users
- 18th July : CJ Silverio becomes the CTO of npm
- 1st August : Trace, the Node.js debugging solution becomes generally available
- 15th September : The first Node Interactive in Europe
- 11th October : The yarn package manager got released
- 18th October : Node.js 6 becomes the LTS version
- “History of Node.js on a Timeline” [Online]. Available : [https://blog.risingstack.com/history-of-node-js]
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