Node.js04/28/2026 · 7 min read
Node.js 22: the features that actually matter
Built-in WebSocket client, native test reporter, and the new V8 GC heuristics — what to adopt today and what to skip.
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Sarah Chen
Principal Engineer
Deep technical writing from the engineers building RuntimeJS in Austin, Texas.
Built-in WebSocket client, native test reporter, and the new V8 GC heuristics — what to adopt today and what to skip.
A reproducible playbook using heap snapshots, --expose-gc, and RuntimeJS' monitor module to find the leak in under 20 minutes.
How we redesigned our worker pool to use SharedArrayBuffer and atomic ring buffers — and tripled throughput.
Why TTFB matters more than TTI in 2026, and how to migrate a renderToString app to streaming in an afternoon.
Supply chain attacks, install size, and audit fatigue — three reasons RuntimeJS will never ship a transitive dep.