Node.js 7.0.0 is released. Meet async / await without babel

7th node was released, hurray! What's new:

• The V8 engine has been updated to version 5.4.500.36, which provides support for 98% of the JavaScript features defined in the ES2015 (ES6) specification and, in part, by the future ES2017 standard.
• A new URL parser that conforms to the URL design standard prepared by the WHATWG community is marked.
• Improved work with Buffer, Child Process, Cluster, file system, promises
• Full list of changes

For me, this is a long-awaited release, as it became possible to use the async / await construct without the babel transpiler. It all turns on with the key --harmony .

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Now you can without babel like this:

(async function() { let content = await require("request-promise") .get("http://example.com/"); console.log(content); })() 

A week ago, the Node.js 6.x branch received the status of LTS, updates for which will be issued within 30 months. The release of Node.js 8 is scheduled for April 2017.



I collected the 7th node for

• CentOS 7
• Fedora 24