The Progress of Node.js a Year Post Node.js and io.js Merge and Where the Technology is Going

Interactive Europe's keynote presentations yesterday, Core community members shared the community's incredible, fast growth and what's next with Node.js v.7 and Node.js v8. The Node.js Foundation leadership also team looked at how to improve diversity and inclusivity in the Node.js In a year and a half, Node.js has grown from 14 to 87 contributors with commit access. About a year and a half ago, it only had 681 contributors over its entire lifecycle; the contributor list now tops 1084 individuals. Last year at almost this exact same time (only two days shy), we merged Node.js and io.js into Node.js