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# Survey April 2024

## Demographics

- Where are you from? (countries list if possible - or open question)
- Country

- How long have you been working with Node.js? (numbers list from 0 to 10+)

- In what kind of organizations are you working in?
- big tech
- company
- startup
- university
- individual
- other

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

## Node.js Usage

- Which groups do you identify with? (multiple choice)
- Direct end users: Users who run tools themselves
- Application operators: Service and infrastructure providers
- Application developers: Frontend tools consumers, backend server authors, tools authors
- 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
- Organization with investments in Node.js (eg: Enterprises, Gouvernement bodies, Startups, Non-profit, Education, Security)

- Are you part of a group not covered ? If yes which one ? (open question)

- What is your use cases of Node.js ? (multiple choice) (open question - Other should give an input)
- Cli tools
- Testing
- Development of APIs with Microservices
- Development of APIs with Serverless
- Development of APIs with Other
- Building static front end applications
- Deploying front end applications (Next.js, Remix, etc...)
- Script and automation (bots, scrapers)
- Proxy
- other

## What Node.js binaries do you use

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

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

- What architecture is the machine you are running Node.js in production? (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
- x64
- x32
- arm
- ppc
- s390
- Don't know
- Other?

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

- What package manager do you use ? (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
- npm
- yarn v1
- yarn modern (2+)
- cnpm
- pnpm
- Other?

- Which version manager do you use (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
- none
- nvm
- n
- asdf
- fnm
- nodenv
- nvs
- volta
- Other?

- How do you manage the package manager for your project? (multiple choice – Other should give an input)
- 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, …).
- I use containers.
- 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)
- Modern HTTP
- Suitable types for end-users
- Documentation
- WebAssembly
- ESM
- Support for features from the latest ECMAScript spec
- Observability
- Permissions/policies/security model
- Better multithreaded support
- Single Executable Applications
- TypeScript Support

- Are there technical priorities that you believe are missing (open question)

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

- What is important to you that is not in this list? (open question)

## Technical Questions

- Regardless of how your code is written in its original form, when it runs in production, does it contain ES module syntax (`import`/`export`)?
- Yes
- No

- For those of you wishing to use ESM in an existing application, what have been the pain points or blockers preventing you from doing so (if any)? (open question)

- Are you using the following experimental features of Node.js (multiple choice)?
- Corepack
- Async Hooks
- Permission model / Policies
- Single Executable Application
- Startup Snapshot
- Loader hooks (`--loader` or `module.register()`)
- Network import (`import 'http://...'`)
- WASI
- VM Modules (`--experimental-vm-modules`)
- Watch mode (`--watch`)
- WebSocket client
- Trace events (`--trace-event-categories` or `node:trace_events`)
- Dotenv (`--env-file`)
- Import attributes

- Are you using the following new stable features (multiple choice):
- Test runner (`node:test`)
- Web Crypto (`globalThis.crypto` or `crypto.webcrypto`)
- Web Streams (`node:stream/web`)
- Fetch

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

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