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Unofficial Node.js subreddit. Discuss Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and anything else in the Node.js ecosystem!

Members
352,384
Created
2009
Posts a day
3
Avg comments, top posts this week
9

r/node is a Reddit community with 352,384 members, created in 2009. It averaged about 3 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts had a median score of 3 and an average of 9 comments each. Node, webhook and express are the words that show up most in recent titles. This month's top posts went up most often around 19:00 UTC, and most often on a Tuesday.

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Data checked October 18, 2026 · Open on Reddit

Top posts this week

  1. 15I threw 6,500 disguised swear words at the popular npm profanity filters. The best one caught 28% and also blocked Fukushima21 comments · October 17, 2026
  2. 12How to implement lastSeen when isOnline field is present?12 comments · October 14, 2026
  3. 10Inbound email webhook, what if endpoint’s down?29 comments · October 12, 2026
  4. 8A webhook receiver that can't lose a message: the boring inbox pattern in Node12 comments · October 14, 2026
  5. 6Asking about CommonJS, ESM and the Node.js event loop10 comments · October 15, 2026
  6. 5How should I automate updating a chromedriver executable for a selenium-based scraper?9 comments · October 13, 2026
  7. 5pboss vs pm2 on Node: cluster mode is a blowout, and the fork-mode "losses" are noise8 comments · October 16, 2026
  8. 3I embedded Node.js in a native program to render JSX without a browser4 comments · October 12, 2026
  9. 3Webhook signature bugs I found while supporting 40+ providers, including two that let bad requests through1 comments · October 11, 2026
  10. 0acr-node: render PDF/PNG business reports in Node.js/Electron without Chromium or a subprocess0 comments · October 17, 2026

Top posts this month

  1. 898Saw this today153 comments · September 22, 2026
  2. 513Deno died today130 comments · October 9, 2026
  3. 281God damnit, no stability160 comments · October 10, 2026
  4. 53Writing Fast Node.js code is mostly about doing less [NodeBook]17 comments · September 29, 2026
  5. 37Node 20 is no longer available in GitHub Actions2 comments · October 1, 2026
  6. 29Snr FE Dev looking to branch to Full Stack27 comments · October 2, 2026
  7. 30Your app never reads your .env file (how dotenv actually works)25 comments · September 25, 2026
  8. 15How I Traced a Node.js Streams Bug in Duplex.from()1 comments · September 19, 2026
  9. 12I threw 6,500 disguised swear words at the popular npm profanity filters. The best one caught 28% and also blocked Fukushima21 comments · October 17, 2026
  10. 12How to implement lastSeen when isOnline field is present?12 comments · October 14, 2026

What people ask

  1. 10Inbound email webhook, what if endpoint’s down?29 comments · October 12, 2026
  2. 14How to implement lastSeen when isOnline field is present?12 comments · October 14, 2026
  3. 5How should I automate updating a chromedriver executable for a selenium-based scraper?9 comments · October 13, 2026
  4. 10What do you use for GraphQL query depth limits with graphql-js 17?7 comments · October 10, 2026
  5. 0Replit API requests returning 307 redirect followed by Replit Shield 401 — anyone experienced this?1 comments · October 14, 2026
  6. 15How I Traced a Node.js Streams Bug in Duplex.from()1 comments · September 19, 2026

Common words in titles

  • node 9
  • webhook 4
  • express 3
  • javascript 3
  • request 3
  • source 3
  • api 2
  • built 2
  • chromium 2
  • github 2
  • middleware 2
  • pdf 2

Best time to post

  • 19:00 UTC · 5 top posts
  • 16:00 UTC · 4 top posts
  • 22:00 UTC · 2 top posts
  • Tuesday · 5 top posts
  • Friday · 5 top posts

These are counted from the timestamps of this month's 25 top posts. They show when popular posts went up and don't guarantee reach.

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    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/node/",
    "name": "node",
    "nsfw": false,
    "title": "Node.js",
    "createdAt": "2009-12-16T00:36:55.000Z",
    "description": "Unofficial Node.js subreddit. Discuss Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and anything else in the Node.js ecosystem!",
    "subscribers": 352384
  },
  "credits": {
    "charged": 2
  }
}

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Questions about r/node

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r/node had 352,384 members when we last checked on October 18, 2026.
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