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doc: add vm example, be able to require modules

The intention behind is to present the user a way to
execute code in a vm context. The current API doesn't
allow this out-of-the-box, since it is neither passing a require
function nor creating context with one.
The missing docs for this behaviour have produced a number of
Q&A items and have also been discussed in the node-archive repo.
In both cases there was no real canonical answer.

Refs: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#9211, #4955
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5323
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
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Robert Jefe Lindstaedt 9 years ago
committed by James M Snell
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@ -304,6 +304,39 @@ e.g. `(0,eval)('code')`. However, it also has the following additional options:
- `timeout`: a number of milliseconds to execute `code` before terminating
execution. If execution is terminated, an [`Error`][] will be thrown.
## Example: Run a Server within a VM
The context of `.runInThisContext()` refers to the V8 context. The code passed
to this VM context will have it's own isolated scope. To run a simple web server
using the `http` module, for instance, the code passed to the context must either
call `require('http')` on its own, or have a reference to the `http` module passed
to it. For instance:
```js
'use strict';
const vm = require('vm');
let code =
`(function(require) {
const http = require('http');
http.createServer( (request, response) => {
response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
response.end('Hello World\\n');
}).listen(8124);
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');
})`;
vm.runInThisContext(code)(require);
```
_Note: `require()` in the above case shares the state with context it is passed
from. This might introduce risks when unknown code is executed, e.g. altering
objects from the calling thread's context in unwanted ways. It is advisable to
run `vm` code in a separate process._
[indirect `eval()` call]: https://es5.github.io/#x10.4.2
[global object]: https://es5.github.io/#x15.1
[`Error`]: errors.html#errors_class_error

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