Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. For
more information on using Node.js, see the Node.js Website.
The Node.js project uses an open governance model. The
Node.js Foundation provides support for the project.
This project is bound by a Code of Conduct.
Table of Contents
Support
Node.js contributors have limited availability to address general support
questions. Please make sure you are using a currently-supported version of
Node.js.
When looking for support, please first search for your question in these venues:
If you didn't find an answer in the resources above, try these unofficial
resources:
GitHub issues are for tracking enhancements and bugs, not general support.
The open source license grants you the freedom to use Node.js. It does not
guarantee commitments of other people's time. Please be respectful and manage
your expectations.
Release Types
- Current: Under active development. Code for the Current release is in the
branch for its major version number (for example,
v10.x). Node.js releases a new
major version every 6 months, allowing for breaking changes. This happens in
April and October every year. Releases appearing each October have a support
life of 8 months. Releases appearing each April convert to LTS (see below)
each October.
- LTS: Releases that receive Long-term Support, with a focus on stability
and security. Every even-numbered major version will become an LTS release.
LTS releases receive 18 months of Active LTS support and a further 12 months
of Maintenance. LTS release lines have alphabetically-ordered codenames,
beginning with v4 Argon. There are no breaking changes or feature additions,
except in some special circumstances.
- Nightly: Code from the Current branch built every 24-hours when there are
changes. Use with caution.
Current and LTS releases follow Semantic Versioning. A
member of the Release Team signs each Current and LTS release.
For more information, see the
Release README.
Download
Binaries, installers, and source tarballs are available at
https://nodejs.org/en/download/.
Current and LTS Releases
https://nodejs.org/download/release/
The latest directory is an
alias for the latest Current release. The latest-codename directory is an
alias for the latest release from an LTS line. For example, the
latest-carbon directory
contains the latest Carbon (Node.js 8) release.
Nightly Releases
https://nodejs.org/download/nightly/
Each directory name and filename contains a date (in UTC time) and the commit
SHA at the HEAD of the release.
API Documentation
Documentation for the latest Current release is at https://nodejs.org/api/.
Version-specific documentation is available in each release directory in the
docs subdirectory. Version-specific documentation is also at
https://nodejs.org/download/docs/.
Verifying Binaries
Download directories contain a SHASUMS256.txt
file with SHA checksums for the
files.
To download SHASUMS256.txt
using curl
:
$ curl -O https://nodejs.org/dist/vx.y.z/SHASUMS256.txt
To check that a downloaded file matches the checksum, run
it through sha256sum
with a command such as:
$ grep node-vx.y.z.tar.gz SHASUMS256.txt | sha256sum -c -
For Current and LTS, the GPG detached signature of SHASUMS256.txt
is in
SHASUMS256.txt.sig
. You can use it with gpg
to verify the integrity of
SHASUM256.txt
. You will first need to import
the GPG keys of individuals authorized to create releases. To
import the keys:
$ gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys DD8F2338BAE7501E3DD5AC78C273792F7D83545D
See the bottom of this README for a full script to import active release keys.
Next, download the SHASUMS256.txt.sig
for the release:
$ curl -O https://nodejs.org/dist/vx.y.z/SHASUMS256.txt.sig
Then use gpg --verify SHASUMS256.txt.sig SHASUMS256.txt
to verify
the file's signature.
Building Node.js
See BUILDING.md for instructions on how to build Node.js from
source and a list of supported platforms.
Security
For information on reporting security vulnerabilities in Node.js, see
SECURITY.md.
Current Project Team Members
For information about the governance of the Node.js project, see
GOVERNANCE.md.
TSC (Technical Steering Committee)
- addaleax -
Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> (she/her)
- apapirovski -
Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com> (he/him)
- ChALkeR -
Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com> (he/him)
- cjihrig -
Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> (he/him)
- danbev -
Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com> (he/him)
- fhinkel -
Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com> (she/her)
- Fishrock123 -
Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
- gabrielschulhof -
Gabriel Schulhof <gabriel.schulhof@intel.com>
- jasnell -
James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> (he/him)
- gireeshpunathil -
Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com> (he/him)
- joyeecheung -
Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com> (she/her)
- mcollina -
Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com> (he/him)
- mhdawson -
Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com> (he/him)
- MylesBorins -
Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com> (he/him)
- ofrobots -
Ali Ijaz Sheikh <ofrobots@google.com> (he/him)
- rvagg -
Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
- targos -
Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> (he/him)
- thefourtheye -
Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com> (he/him)
- Trott -
Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> (he/him)
TSC Emeriti
- bnoordhuis -
Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
- chrisdickinson -
Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
- evanlucas -
Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com> (he/him)
- gibfahn -
Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com> (he/him)
- indutny -
Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
- isaacs -
Isaac Z. Schlueter <i@izs.me>
- joshgav -
Josh Gavant <josh.gavant@outlook.com>
- mscdex -
Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
- nebrius -
Bryan Hughes <bryan@nebri.us>
- orangemocha -
Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
- piscisaureus -
Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
- shigeki -
Shigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@ohtsu.org> (he/him)
- TimothyGu -
Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com> (he/him)
- trevnorris -
Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Collaborators
- addaleax -
Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> (she/her)
- ak239 -
Aleksei Koziatinskii <ak239spb@gmail.com>
- andrasq -
Andras <andras@kinvey.com>
- AndreasMadsen -
Andreas Madsen <amwebdk@gmail.com> (he/him)
- AnnaMag -
Anna M. Kedzierska <anna.m.kedzierska@gmail.com>
- antsmartian -
Anto Aravinth <anto.aravinth.cse@gmail.com> (he/him)
- apapirovski -
Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com> (he/him)
- aqrln -
Alexey Orlenko <eaglexrlnk@gmail.com> (he/him)
- bcoe -
Ben Coe <bencoe@gmail.com> (he/him)
- bengl -
Bryan English <bryan@bryanenglish.com> (he/him)
- benjamingr -
Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
- BethGriggs -
Beth Griggs <Bethany.Griggs@uk.ibm.com> (she/her)
- bmeck -
Bradley Farias <bradley.meck@gmail.com>
- bmeurer -
Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer@gmail.com>
- bnoordhuis -
Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
- boneskull -
Christopher Hiller <boneskull@boneskull.com> (he/him)
- brendanashworth -
Brendan Ashworth <brendan.ashworth@me.com>
- BridgeAR -
Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de> (he/him)
- bzoz -
Bartosz Sosnowski <bartosz@janeasystems.com>
- calvinmetcalf -
Calvin Metcalf <calvin.metcalf@gmail.com>
- ChALkeR -
Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com> (he/him)
- chrisdickinson -
Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
- cjihrig -
Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> (he/him)
- claudiorodriguez -
Claudio Rodriguez <cjrodr@yahoo.com>
- codebytere -
Shelley Vohr <codebytere@gmail.com> (she/her)
- danbev -
Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com> (he/him)
- DavidCai1993 -
David Cai <davidcai1993@yahoo.com> (he/him)
- davisjam -
Jamie Davis <davisjam@vt.edu> (he/him)
- devsnek -
Gus Caplan <me@gus.host> (he/him)
- digitalinfinity -
Hitesh Kanwathirtha <digitalinfinity@gmail.com> (he/him)
- edsadr -
Adrian Estrada <edsadr@gmail.com> (he/him)
- eljefedelrodeodeljefe -
Robert Jefe Lindstaedt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
- estliberitas -
Alexander Makarenko <estliberitas@gmail.com>
- eugeneo -
Eugene Ostroukhov <eostroukhov@google.com>
- evanlucas -
Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com> (he/him)
- fhinkel -
Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com> (she/her)
- firedfox -
Daniel Wang <wangyang0123@gmail.com>
- Fishrock123 -
Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
- gabrielschulhof -
Gabriel Schulhof <gabriel.schulhof@intel.com>
- gdams -
George Adams <george.adams@uk.ibm.com> (he/him)
- geek -
Wyatt Preul <wpreul@gmail.com>
- gibfahn -
Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com> (he/him)
- gireeshpunathil -
Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com> (he/him)
- guybedford -
Guy Bedford <guybedford@gmail.com> (he/him)
- hashseed -
Yang Guo <yangguo@chromium.org> (he/him)
- hiroppy -
Yuta Hiroto <hello@hiroppy.me> (he/him)
- iarna -
Rebecca Turner <me@re-becca.org>
- imyller -
Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
- indutny -
Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
- italoacasas -
Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com> (he/him)
- JacksonTian -
Jackson Tian <shyvo1987@gmail.com>
- jasnell -
James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> (he/him)
- jasongin -
Jason Ginchereau <jasongin@microsoft.com>
- jbergstroem -
Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu>
- jdalton -
John-David Dalton <john.david.dalton@gmail.com>
- jhamhader -
Yuval Brik <yuval@brik.org.il>
- jkrems -
Jan Krems <jan.krems@gmail.com> (he/him)
- joaocgreis -
João Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
- joshgav -
Josh Gavant <josh.gavant@outlook.com>
- joyeecheung -
Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com> (she/her)
- julianduque -
Julian Duque <julianduquej@gmail.com> (he/him)
- JungMinu -
Minwoo Jung <minwoo@nodesource.com> (he/him)
- kfarnung -
Kyle Farnung <kfarnung@microsoft.com> (he/him)
- kunalspathak -
Kunal Pathak <kunal.pathak@microsoft.com>
- lance -
Lance Ball <lball@redhat.com> (he/him)
- Leko -
Shingo Inoue <leko.noor@gmail.com> (he/him)
- lpinca -
Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> (he/him)
- lucamaraschi -
Luca Maraschi <luca.maraschi@gmail.com> (he/him)
- lundibundi -
Denys Otrishko <shishugi@gmail.com> (he/him)
- maclover7 -
Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me> (he/him)
- mafintosh
Mathias Buus <mathiasbuus@gmail.com> (he/him)
- mcollina -
Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com> (he/him)
- mhdawson -
Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com> (he/him)
- misterdjules -
Julien Gilli <jgilli@nodejs.org>
- mmarchini -
Matheus Marchini <mat@mmarchini.me>
- MoonBall -
Chen Gang <gangc.cxy@foxmail.com>
- mscdex -
Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
- MylesBorins -
Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com> (he/him)
- not-an-aardvark -
Teddy Katz <teddy.katz@gmail.com> (he/him)
- ofrobots -
Ali Ijaz Sheikh <ofrobots@google.com> (he/him)
- orangemocha -
Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
- othiym23 -
Forrest L Norvell <ogd@aoaioxxysz.net> (he/him)
- oyyd -
Ouyang Yadong <oyydoibh@gmail.com> (he/him)
- pmq20 -
Minqi Pan <pmq2001@gmail.com>
- princejwesley -
Prince John Wesley <princejohnwesley@gmail.com>
- psmarshall -
Peter Marshall <petermarshall@chromium.org> (he/him)
- Qard -
Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com> (he/him)
- refack -
Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com> (he/him)
- richardlau -
Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
- ronkorving -
Ron Korving <ron@ronkorving.nl>
- RReverser -
Ingvar Stepanyan <me@rreverser.com>
- rubys -
Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- rvagg -
Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
- ryzokuken -
Ujjwal Sharma <usharma1998@gmail.com> (he/him)
- saghul -
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul@gmail.com>
- sam-github -
Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
- santigimeno -
Santiago Gimeno <santiago.gimeno@gmail.com>
- sebdeckers -
Sebastiaan Deckers <sebdeckers83@gmail.com>
- seishun -
Nikolai Vavilov <vvnicholas@gmail.com>
- shigeki -
Shigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@ohtsu.org> (he/him)
- shisama -
Masashi Hirano <shisama07@gmail.com> (he/him)
- silverwind -
Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
- srl295 -
Steven R Loomis <srloomis@us.ibm.com>
- starkwang -
Weijia Wang <starkwang@126.com>
- stefanmb -
Stefan Budeanu <stefan@budeanu.com>
- targos -
Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> (he/him)
- thefourtheye -
Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com> (he/him)
- thekemkid -
Glen Keane <glenkeane.94@gmail.com> (he/him)
- thlorenz -
Thorsten Lorenz <thlorenz@gmx.de>
- TimothyGu -
Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com> (he/him)
- tniessen -
Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
- trevnorris -
Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
- trivikr -
Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
- Trott -
Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> (he/him)
- vdeturckheim -
Vladimir de Turckheim <vlad2t@hotmail.com> (he/him)
- vkurchatkin -
Vladimir Kurchatkin <vladimir.kurchatkin@gmail.com>
- vsemozhetbyt -
Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com> (he/him)
- watilde -
Daijiro Wachi <daijiro.wachi@gmail.com> (he/him)
- watson -
Thomas Watson <w@tson.dk>
- whitlockjc -
Jeremy Whitlock <jwhitlock@apache.org>
- XadillaX -
Khaidi Chu <i@2333.moe> (he/him)
- yhwang -
Yihong Wang <yh.wang@ibm.com>
- yorkie -
Yorkie Liu <yorkiefixer@gmail.com>
- yosuke-furukawa -
Yosuke Furukawa <yosuke.furukawa@gmail.com>
- ZYSzys -
Yongsheng Zhang <zyszys98@gmail.com> (he/him)
Collaborator Emeriti
- imran-iq -
Imran Iqbal <imran@imraniqbal.org>
- isaacs -
Isaac Z. Schlueter <i@izs.me>
- lxe -
Aleksey Smolenchuk <lxe@lxe.co>
- matthewloring -
Matthew Loring <mattloring@google.com>
- micnic -
Nicu Micleușanu <micnic90@gmail.com> (he/him)
- mikeal -
Mikeal Rogers <mikeal.rogers@gmail.com>
- monsanto -
Christopher Monsanto <chris@monsan.to>
- Olegas -
Oleg Elifantiev <oleg@elifantiev.ru>
- petkaantonov -
Petka Antonov <petka_antonov@hotmail.com>
- phillipj -
Phillip Johnsen <johphi@gmail.com>
- piscisaureus -
Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
- rlidwka -
Alex Kocharin <alex@kocharin.ru>
- rmg -
Ryan Graham <r.m.graham@gmail.com>
- robertkowalski -
Robert Kowalski <rok@kowalski.gd>
- romankl -
Roman Klauke <romaaan.git@gmail.com>
- tellnes -
Christian Tellnes <christian@tellnes.no>
- tunniclm -
Mike Tunnicliffe <m.j.tunnicliffe@gmail.com>
Collaborators follow the COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md in
maintaining the Node.js project.
Release Keys
GPG keys used to sign Node.js releases:
- Beth Griggs <bethany.griggs@uk.ibm.com>
4ED778F539E3634C779C87C6D7062848A1AB005C
- Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
94AE36675C464D64BAFA68DD7434390BDBE9B9C5
- Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
B9AE9905FFD7803F25714661B63B535A4C206CA9
- Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
77984A986EBC2AA786BC0F66B01FBB92821C587A
- James M Snell <jasnell@keybase.io>
71DCFD284A79C3B38668286BC97EC7A07EDE3FC1
- Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock@keybase.io>
FD3A5288F042B6850C66B31F09FE44734EB7990E
- Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
8FCCA13FEF1D0C2E91008E09770F7A9A5AE15600
- Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
C4F0DFFF4E8C1A8236409D08E73BC641CC11F4C8
- Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
DD8F2338BAE7501E3DD5AC78C273792F7D83545D
- Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
A48C2BEE680E841632CD4E44F07496B3EB3C1762
- Shelley Vohr <shelley.vohr@gmail.com>
B9E2F5981AA6E0CD28160D9FF13993A75599653C
To import the full set of trusted release keys:
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 4ED778F539E3634C779C87C6D7062848A1AB005C
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys B9E2F5981AA6E0CD28160D9FF13993A75599653C
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 94AE36675C464D64BAFA68DD7434390BDBE9B9C5
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys B9AE9905FFD7803F25714661B63B535A4C206CA9
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 77984A986EBC2AA786BC0F66B01FBB92821C587A
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 71DCFD284A79C3B38668286BC97EC7A07EDE3FC1
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys FD3A5288F042B6850C66B31F09FE44734EB7990E
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 8FCCA13FEF1D0C2E91008E09770F7A9A5AE15600
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys C4F0DFFF4E8C1A8236409D08E73BC641CC11F4C8
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys DD8F2338BAE7501E3DD5AC78C273792F7D83545D
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys A48C2BEE680E841632CD4E44F07496B3EB3C1762
See the section above on Verifying Binaries for how to
use these keys to verify a downloaded file.
Other keys used to sign some previous releases:
- Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
9554F04D7259F04124DE6B476D5A82AC7E37093B
- Isaac Z. Schlueter <i@izs.me>
93C7E9E91B49E432C2F75674B0A78B0A6C481CF6
- Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com>
56730D5401028683275BD23C23EFEFE93C4CFFFE
- Julien Gilli <jgilli@fastmail.fm>
114F43EE0176B71C7BC219DD50A3051F888C628D
- Timothy J Fontaine <tjfontaine@gmail.com>
7937DFD2AB06298B2293C3187D33FF9D0246406D
Contributing to Node.js