What is this carbon,boron,argon , which is used for nodejs?

Question

I am just curious, what is carbon, boron, argon which is used while describing versions of nodejs?

Answer 1

Actually Node.js provide code name for Long Term Support (LTS) versions.

It started from Argon (version 4.2.0 to 4.9.1). And then it went like Boron (6.9.0 to 6.16.0), Carbon(8.9.0 to 8.15.0) and Dubnium (10.13.0 to 10.15.0). Basically they name their LTS versions under Chemical elements.

Argon(Ar), Boron(B), Carbon(C) and Dubnium(Db).

Answer 2

They are the code names for the Nodejs versions (based on chemical names from the periodic table, names are taken alphabetically a, b, c ...), please check below link for more details,

https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/ 

Now the second part, Always try to use the stable and latest version (LTS) of Nodejs in production, currently, it is 12.18.3. But for experimenting you can go with the current version and play with new features.

With version 8+ you get async-await support of javascript in Nodejs

Don't bother with the previous version if you are starting new.