TL;DR: Node 7.6 was released yesterday with native support for async/await which was a blocker to declare Koa 2 stable; that means we can start using it (no need to provide the harmony flag) to build awesome nodejs applications. If you’ve never heard about Koa, it’s a “next generation framework for nodejs” developed by the team behind Express. Its first version (currently stable) relies heavily on
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