node.js 8

very satisfied with the yum and node 8 install process.

https://bitbucket.org/ibmi/opensource/src/b1cc5212d396815a17badc57e7b7aadc836b4f5f/docs/yum/

this new version of node is very important in that it supports async and
await, Using async and await is a night and day improvement compared to
coding javascript callbacks and even promises.

the steps I ran:

download bootstrap.sh and bootstrap.tar.Z to the /tmp directory.

QSH CMD('touch -C 819 /tmp/bootstrap.log; /QOpenSys/usr/bin/ksh
/tmp/bootstrap.sh > /tmp/bootstrap.log 2>&1')

call qp2term
PATH=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin:$PATH
export PATH
yum install nodejs8

then to run node:
export QIBM_MULTI_THREADED=Y
/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/OPS/Node6/bin/nodever.sh 6

node -v
v8.15.0
$
npm -v
6.4.1
$