What version of NodeJS is now supported?

JaredBusch

Back when I updated to 1.5 I tried to upgrade to NodeJS 8 and it puked.

I was told then (May 30, 2017) that NodeJS 8 was not supported. It it now?

I ask because I see NodeJS is up to v9.2.1 with v8.9.3 being the current LTS.

PitaJ

Node v6 - v8 is officially supported, though v9 may also work.

Mikael Jenkler

I still use v6 and it works great

JaredBusch

I still use v6 and it works great

Use old code all you want. I won’t. I prefer updated and secure code to old code.

PitaJ

Node v6 is still maintained.

Mikael Jenkler

I follow my Distos stable tree 6 is latest stable in Gentoo But it works fine!

teh_g

No more issues with using v8 and destroying plugin dependencies? I may update to v8 then since it is the official LTS release now.

JaredBusch

Node v6 is still maintained.

Maintained may be patched and secure, but it is not up to date.

julian

@teh_g No, we've effectively resolved that problem in v1.7.1 (I believe... maybe it was v1.7.0).

teh_g

@teh_g No, we've effectively resolved that problem in v1.7.1 (I believe... maybe it was v1.7.0).

Sweet! I got scared whenever I ran N in case I accidentally went to LTS instead of the 6.x branch.

@julian When moving between node versions, do I need to rerun npm install or anything?

julian

Always best to, just in case I believe socket.io will need to rebuild its binaries.