The State of HTTP/2 in Node

In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node’s TSC and CTC) about the work he’s doing on Node’s implementation of http2, the state of http2 in Node, what this new spec has to offer, and what the Node community can expect from this new protocol.

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Featuring:

• James Snell – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
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Show Notes:

This “The Future of Node” Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.

• Spotlight #6: “Small Core” – Keeping Node Core Small with Sam Roberts and Thomas Watson
• Checkout the http2 repo James is working on
• Watch the talk James gave at Node Interactive — Implementing HTTP/2 for Node.js Core by James Snell
• Watch all the talks from Node Interactive
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