Change a single word in documentation with a more precise one.
Native is a module compiled in machine "native" code.
A module normally written in a compiled language, not in JavaScript.
Core modules form Node's built-in "core" functionalities.
You don't need to install them. They are included in every Node installation
and documented in https://nodejs.org/api/ .
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10324
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
For consistency, changed all `Return:` to `Returns:` in the API docs.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9554
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9816
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Prince John Wesley <princejohnwesley@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
- Do not use word alias, it isn't well defined
- Fix return value of require() example, which confusingly was not the
exported API as it should have been.
- Fix the require() example, which claimed that the module exported `0`,
when it exports `some_func`.
- Describe best practice in keeping exports and module.exports bound
together.
- Describe why exports exists
- Remove reference to magic, which is also not well defined
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9622
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
fix the index order in pseudocode of modules.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9562
Reviewed-By: Shigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@ohtsu.org>
Reviewed-By: Yosuke Furukawa <yosuke.furukawa@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9026
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8250
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Bryan English <bryan@bryanenglish.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Use blockquotes instead of code blocks for stability markers in
the docs. Doing that:
- Makes the makers appear correctly when viewed e.g. on github.
- Allows remark-lint rules like `no-undefined-references` to work
properly (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7729).
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7757
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7885
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Original commit:
0800c0aa72
doc: git mv to .md
* doc: rename .markdown references in content
* doc: rename to .md in tools
* doc: rename to .md in CONTRIBUTING.md
PR-URL: #4747
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: techjeffharris
Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Included a block in the modules.md file to explain the existence and
purpose of the module wrapper.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6433
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Added a hint saying that node uses the default "Cannot find module"
error when requiring a module for which the "main" file specified in
the package.json is missing.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5812
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This adds a paragraph in the Module Caching Caveats section about the
behavior of require when Node is running on top of a file system (e.g.
HFS) or operating system (e.g. Windows) that will not consider the case
of file paths to find files.
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Fixes several type references in the docs so that the
doc html gen tool that parses them can put the correct
links in.
Changes css styling for the generated type links.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4741
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Chris Dickinson <chris@neversaw.us>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
This commit replaces multiple usages of `function(){}` with ES2015
arrow functions in places it was forgotten earlier. The goal is to
make the docs more consistent since other functions were already
replaced with ES2015 arrows.
In addition, it fixes invalid syntax in modules.markdown to valid
syntax as well as remove `var self = this` pattern usages in the code
where they are now possible to avoid through arrow functions.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4832
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This changes the code blocks from 4-space indentation to ``` fences for
better syntax highlighting and future linting support. Minor On-the-fly
changes for typos and highlight breaking markdown have been made.
JSON-Style objects have been changed so their closing bracket is
on the same line as the opening one.
Known issues:
* Not every JSON / object notation has been improved. Should
make another run for this.
* Some example functions break hightlighting due to various
combinations of brackets. However changing them means leaving
the code style.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4726
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4733
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
The docs were recently refactored, and some "above" and "below"
references were no longer accurate. This commit removes many
such references, and replaces others with links.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4499
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
* Use single quotes consistently
* Modernize examples to use template strings and arrow funcs
* Fix a few typos
* Example edits for consistency
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4282
Reviewed-By: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
* add backticks around names
* add single quotes around event names
* add parenthesis after function names
* add internal links between different sections
* add external links to MDN for some JavaScript references
* sort the link definitions alphabetically
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4054
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Removing ableist language because we don't need to make the comparison
to people with mental health issues to get our point across.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3980
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
The module loading system will not append node_modules to a
path already ending in node_modules. This used to be documented,
but it was lost.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3873
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3920
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Moved all the URLs in API docs to the bottom of the files as
reference-style links.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3845
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reorders, with no contextual changes, the modules documentation
alphabetically.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3662
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
The `events` module already exports `EventEmitter` constructor function
So, we don't have to use `events.EventEmitter` to access it.
Refer: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2896
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2921
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
This commit replaces instances of io.js with Node.js, based on the
recent convergence. There are some remaining instances of io.js,
related to build and the installer.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2361
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2367
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: João Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
This simplifies the stability index to 4 levels:
0 - deprecated
1 - experimental / feature-flagged
2 - stable
3 - locked
Domains has been downgraded to deprecated, assert has been
downgraded to stable. Timers and Module remain locked. All
other APIs are now stable.
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/943
Fixes: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/930
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Vladimir Kurchatkin <vladimir.kurchatkin@gmail.com>
Adding note to api/modules.markdown about ability to
load arbitrary path from modules from node_module path
by adding reference to path after module name in call
to require()
PR-URL: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/7794
Reviewed-by: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
Reviewed-by: Timothy J Fontaine <tjfontaine@gmail.com>
The behavior of the `node_modules` lookup algorithm was
changed in #1177, but the documentation was not updated completely
to describe the new behavior.
The pseudocode of the lookup algorithm did not metion that
`index.json` is tried to be loaded if you require a folder.
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
Drop vestigial `process.installPrefix`, `node --vars`, NODE_CFLAGS and
NODE_PREFIX.
Also removed unused node_config.h.in (replaced with config.gypi a while back).
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