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# Survey April 2025

## Demographics

- Where do you currently live? (countries list)

- What is your primary language? (add list of languages)

- How long have you been working with Node.js? (numbers list from 0 to 15+)

- In what kind of organizations are you working in?
- Academia (school, university..)
- Company
- Government
- Individual/Freelance
- NGO (not for profit)
- Other
- Unemployed

- If working in a company, in which sector does your company operate? (single choice - Other should give an input)
- Agricultural tech
- Communication Services
- Energy
- Financials
- Health Care
- Industrials
- Information Technology
- Materials
- Other
- Real Estate
- Utilities

- What is the number of employees/member of the organization you are part of? (single choice)
- 1 to 9
- 10 to 99
- 100 to 499
- 500 to 999
- 1000+

## Node.js Usage

- Which of the following best reflects your role regarding Node.js? (multiple choice)
- Application developers: backend server authors
- Application developers: Frontend
- Application developers: fullstack (front end and back end)
- Application developers: tools authors
- Application operators: Service and infrastructure providers
- Direct end users: Users who run tools themselves
- Library & package authors: Users who write libraries and packages to be included on other applications
- Node.js core maintainers: Developers working directly on Node.js, individuals participating in Working Groups

- How does your organization invest in Node.js ?
- None
- Other
- sponsors JavaScript packages in the ecosystem through crowdfunding (for example, GitHub sponsors or Open Collective)
- sponsors Node.js directly through crowdfunding (for example, GitHub sponsors or Open Collective)
- sponsors your time to work in JavaScript packages in the ecosystem
- sponsors your time to work in the Node.js project
- through membership in the OpenJS foundation

- What is your use cases of Node.js ? (multiple choice) (open question - Other should give an input)
- Cli tools
- Development of APIs with Microservices
- Development of APIs with Other
- Development of APIs with Serverless
- Full stack development (Next.js, Remix, etc...)
- Http proxy
- Implementing desktop applications (ex electron based applications)
- IoT/Edge devices
- Mobile applications
- Other
- Scripting automation
- Testing
- Tooling used to build front end applications

## What Node.js binaries do you use

- What is your Operating System for your local development environment ? (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
- Android
- Linux
- Linux with Docker
- macOS
- macOS with Docker
- Other
- Windows
- Windows with Docker
- Windows with WSL

- What is your Operating System in which you are running Node.js in production ? (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
- Android
- Linux with Docker
- Linux/Unix
- macOS
- macOS with Docker
- Other
- Serverless
- Unknown
- Windows
- Windows with Docker

- What architecture is the machine you are running Node.js in production? (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
- Arm
- Don't know
- Other
- x86
- x64

- How do you get your `node` executables? (multiple choice – Other should give an input)
- Building Node.js from Source
- Docker Image
- Downloading binaries directly from Nodejs.org
- Other
- Using a system package manager: apt-get, brew, dnf, yum …
- Using package managers like npm or yarn and install Node.js as a package
- Using the official installer
- With a Node.js version manager: nvm, n, nave, nvs, volta, mise, asdf, etc.

- What package manager do you use ? (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
- Bun
- Npm
- Other
- Pnpm
- Yarn modern (2+)
- Yarn v1

- Which version manager do you use (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
- Asdf
- Fnm
- Nodenv
- N
- Nvm
- None
- Other
- Pnpm
- Volta

- How do you manage the package manager for your project? (multiple choice – Other should give an input)
- I use containers.
- I use one version installed globally for all my projects.
- I use a tool to pick a specific version per project (e.g. Corepack, asdf, …).
- Other

## Project Priorities and Direction

- Which of the current [Technical Priorities](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/contributing/technical-priorities.md) are important to you ? (multiple choice)
- Better multithreaded support
- Developers-first DX
- Documentation
- ESM
- Modern HTTP (HTTP3, quic)
- Observability
- Package management
- Permissions/policies/security model
- Serverless
- Single Executable Applications
- Small footprint
- Suitable types for end-users
- Support for features from the latest ECMAScript spec
- TypeScript Support
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reminder add typescript to technical priorities

- WebAssembly
- Other

- What is important to you ? (multiple choice)
- Ability to affect the direction of the project
- Ability to embed and bundle the Node.js runtime
- Assets that show Node.js is a good choice
- Better ways to build consensus in the project
- Broad deployment platform support
- Broad development platform support
- Consistent and intuitive error handling
- Consumable APIs and docs
- Development time diagnostic tooling
- Easy contribution workflow
- Easy installation
- Easy issue reporting, resolution and collaboration
- Good CI infrastructure and experience in the project
- Good security and CVE practices
- Good understanding of the direction of the project
- Innovation at a consumable pace
- Module/dependency info and management
- Predictable and stable releases
- Reasonable resource usage/performance
- Relevant APIs in core
- Runtime diagnostic tooling
- Supportive Collaborators and Environment in the project
- Ways to fund their work
- A well maintained and secure standard library
- Other

## Technical Questions

- Are you using the following experimental features of Node.js (multiple choice)?
- Async Hooks Module (`node:async_hooks`)
- Config File (`node.config.json`)
- Corepack
- Dotenv (`--env-file`)
- Glob
- Loader hooks
- Module Mocking
- Require(ESM)
- Shadow Realm
- Single Executable Application
- Startup Snapshot
- SQLite
- Test Coverage
- TypeScript support
- VM Modules
- WASI
- Web Storage
- Zstd

- Are you using the following new stable features (multiple choice):
- Diagnostic APIs (`--cpu-prof`, `--heap-prof`, etc...)
- Import attributes
- Permission model
- Task runner (`--run`)
- Test Snapshot
- Test runner (`node:test`)
- Watch mode (`--watch`)
- WebSocket client

- Are there any key features that you think should be added to Node.js? (open question)

- Do you write and test your code to run on other server side runtimes in addition to Node.js? (Yes No)

- Do you encounter any recurring issues when using Node.js that you would like to share with us ? (open question)