Node.js 18 (codename ) was a major Long-Term Support (LTS) release that introduced several modern features to the runtime, most notably a built-in fetch API.
| Operation | Improvement | |-----------|--------------| | HTTP requests/sec | +12% | | Startup time (ESM) | -18% | | Memory usage (streams) | -22% | | fetch() latency | Native is 2x faster than node-fetch | node 18 full
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