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Node.js Good First Issues for JavaScript

JavaScript issues that involve Node.js: the project is tagged with it, or the issue itself is about it.

Node.js

Open issues
103k
New this week
2.7k
Nobody on it yet
84.5k
Average difficulty
3.6/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 3.6/5 across 109,897 issues.
  • 14% of 109,897 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Oct 31, 2026.

About Node.js

Node.js runs JavaScript outside the browser on the V8 engine, and was first released in 2009. It is widely used for servers, command-line tools and build tooling.

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How many Node.js issues are open here?
103,470 open issues: 2,667 opened in the last seven days, and 84,511 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
Where do I start?
Pick an issue marked beginner-friendly, read the project's contributing guide and comment before you begin. The contributor guide walks through it, from choosing an issue to your first pull request.
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