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Red Hat Build of Node.js Essentials

April 28, 2025
Lucas Holmquist
Related topics:
Node.jsRuntimes
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Red Hat build of Node.js

    If you follow Red Hat’s work in the Node.js project, or have been following our regular updates, you’ll see that our strategy is to focus our community work on aspects we believe are important to our customers, including:

    • Stable and predictable releases
    • Platform support
    • Security
    • Diagnostics
    • Performance
    • Code quality

    Our commitment to these priorities, combined with our internal and customer collaborations, keeping the Node.js infrastructure running, keeping V8 running on the s390 and PPC architectures, integrating support for ubi into buildpacks, as well as our sharing of expertise in the Node.js reference architecture, has been keeping us busy.

    Install

    There are a few ways to install and use the Red Hat build of Node.js.  First, delivered through RPMs, Node.js is installed and managed using the trusted Red Hat ecosystem, ensuring consistency across components. To learn more about installing on RHEL checkout this article:

    •  Install Node.js on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

    Pre-built and maintained containers offer effortless consumption. Choose from full or minimal container images tailored precisely for building and running Node.js applications, ensuring efficiency and simplicity in deployment.  A link to where to find and install these containers is below:

    • Red Hat Container Catalog

    Before a Red Hat build of Node.js release becomes Long Term Support(LTS),  the RHEL team makes available some pre-built Node.js images based on centos streams to help you prepare and do advance testing.

    • Node.js 22 - Test it out early in the RHEL ecosystem

    Get Started Using

    Installing and knowing where to get the Red Hat build of Node.js is only the first step.  Knowing how to use it is just as important.  Below are a few articles that can help you get started with using the Red Hat Build of Node.js

    • Getting Started with the Red Hat build of Node.js 
    • Optimize Node.js images with the UBI 8 Node.js minimal image | Red Hat Developer
    • How to deploy Next.js applications to Red Hat OpenShift

    Conclusion

    As always if you want to learn more about what the Red Hat Node.js team is up to check these out:

    https://developers.redhat.com/topics/nodejs

    https://developers.redhat.com/products/nodejs

    https://developers.redhat.com/topics/nodejs/openshift

    https://github.com/nodeshift/nodejs-reference-architecture

    https://developers.redhat.com/e-books/developers-guide-nodejs-reference-architecture

     

    Disclaimer: Please note the content in this blog post has not been thoroughly reviewed by the Red Hat Developer editorial team. Any opinions expressed in this post are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the policies or positions of Red Hat.

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