Search engines usually show the latest docs for Node.js. Today I had the frustrating task to debug why my Buffer.from(string, encoding) function worked perfectly fine on my developer machine but threw a TypeError 'binary' is not a function. It took me a while to realise I'm running Node 4 LTS on staging and of course Node 6 on the dev machine and that Buffer.from is not working in 4 LTS, but already deprecated in 6. Worse is that Buffer.from() should have thrown the non-existing function error, as it's not listed in the v4 docs.
I think it would be great help to have the supported versions for each function in the latest documentation to see when a function has been introduced and when it gets deprecated, best with colours ranging from green, orange and red (just an idea), to indicate right away the status.
Search engines usually show the latest docs for Node.js. Today I had the frustrating task to debug why my Buffer.from(string, encoding) function worked perfectly fine on my developer machine but threw a TypeError 'binary' is not a function. It took me a while to realise I'm running Node 4 LTS on staging and of course Node 6 on the dev machine and that Buffer.from is not working in 4 LTS, but already deprecated in 6. Worse is that Buffer.from() should have thrown the non-existing function error, as it's not listed in the v4 docs.
I think it would be great help to have the supported versions for each function in the latest documentation to see when a function has been introduced and when it gets deprecated, best with colours ranging from green, orange and red (just an idea), to indicate right away the status.