What Node am I using

Question

I've been notified that community support for Node 14 LTS is ending on April 2023 and I should transition to Node 16 LTS. How do I know which Node I am using?

Answer 1

@Paul Chernoff Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A, apologize for any inconvenience caused on this. As you have tagged Azure App Services, I understand that your application is hosted on App service with NodeJs-14LTS runtime.

NodeJs-14LTS is about to reach end of life by April 2023 as mentioned here it is always recommended to run your application workloads on the latest supported runtime versions.

• If your application is running on Windows App Service plan you can check the current NodeJs version which your app is using by referring to application setting WEBSITE_NODE_DEFAULT_VERSION or by referring to Stack Settings in General Settings under configuration tab as shown below. For app that are running on Windows App service plan, if you want to upgrade to latest runtime version you need to edit the app setting WEBSITE_NODE_DEFAULT_VERSION with values 18,16 .

• If your application is running on Linux App Service plan you can check the current NodeJs version which your app is using by referring to Stack Settings in General Setting under configuration tab. If you want to upgrade to latest version of NodeJs then you use the drop down as shown below.

Feel free to reach back to me if you have any further questions on this.