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Node Just Got a Big Update

2 min readApr 20, 2023

Welcome back! Node is one of the most important is one of the most important tools you can use with Javascript, guess what!? Node just got another massive update! This is version 20.0.0 of Node.JS, so, let’s take a look at some of the changes within this version of Node!

Support For ARM64 Windows

This version of Node brings native support for ARM64 on Windows! This is an awesome feature that allows for faster executions, to learn more about this, check the link below:

Upgrading Windows on ARM64 to a tier 2 platform by StefanStojanovic · Pull Request #47233 ·…

Official support for ARM64 Windows is something many people have been looking forward to for years. We recently added…

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Web Crypto API

This version of Node.JS brings a very interesting feature which improves the implementations of the web crypto API, if you want to learn more about this, check out the post below:

crypto: use WebIDL converters in WebCryptoAPI by panva · Pull Request #46067 · nodejs/node

It is currently the case that what works in Node.js webcrypto will most likely work in every browser's webcrypto as…