Modules compiled for one version of Node.js would then run on later versions with no need to recompile. The N-API effort also aims to ease support of multiple back-end JavaScript engines.

Node.js is also being put to new uses. In a user survey published last April, the Node.js Foundation noted the platform -- with more than 3.5 million users and an annual growth rate of 100 percent -- ...

Experimental support for ES Modules was added in Node.js 12.12 and is stable from Node.js 16 forward. TypeScript (a strongly typed superset of JavaScript) also supports ES Modules for Node.js 16 ...