The term "native module" dates back to some of the oldest code
in the code base. Within the context of Node.js core it usually
refers to modules that are native to Node.js (e.g. fs, http),
but it can cause confusion for people who don't work on this
part of the code base, as "native module" can also refer to
native addons - which is even the case in some of the API
docs and error messages.
This patch tries to make the usage of these terms more consistent.
Now within the context of Node.js core:
- JavaScript scripts that are built-in to Node.js are now referred
to as "built-in(s)". If they are available as modules,
they can also be referred to as "built-in module(s)".
- Dynamically-linked shared objects that are loaded into
the Node.js processes are referred to as "addons".
We will try to avoid using the term "native modules" because it could
be ambiguous.
Changes in this patch:
File names:
- node_native_module.h -> node_builtins.h,
- node_native_module.cc -> node_builtins.cc
C++ binding names:
- `native_module` -> `builtins`
`node::Environment`:
- `native_modules_without_cache` -> `builtins_without_cache`
- `native_modules_with_cache` -> `builtins_with_cache`
- `native_modules_in_snapshot` -> `builtins_in_cache`
- `native_module_require` -> `builtin_module_require`
`node::EnvSerializeInfo`:
- `native_modules` -> `builtins
`node::native_module::NativeModuleLoader`:
- `native_module` namespace -> `builtins` namespace
- `NativeModuleLoader` -> `BuiltinLoader`
- `NativeModuleRecordMap` -> `BuiltinSourceMap`
- `NativeModuleCacheMap` -> `BuiltinCodeCacheMap`
- `ModuleIds` -> `BuiltinIds`
- `ModuleCategories` -> `BuiltinCategories`
- `LoadBuiltinModuleSource` -> `LoadBuiltinSource`
`loader.js`:
- `NativeModule` -> `BuiltinModule` (the `NativeModule` name used in
`process.moduleLoadList` is kept for compatibility)
And other clarifications in the documentation and comments.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/44135
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/44036
Reviewed-By: Jacob Smith <jacob@frende.me>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <midawson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <rlau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <technicalcute@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <legendecas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Mohammed Keyvanzadeh <mohammadkeyvanzade94@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Jan Krems <jan.krems@gmail.com>
Some core modules can be loaded with or without the `node:` prefix.
Using the prefix disambiguates which specifiers refer to core modules.
This commit updates the docs to use the prefix everywhere a core module
is referenced.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42752
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/38343
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Mestery <mestery@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Akhil Marsonya <akhil.marsonya27@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rafael Gonzaga <rafael.nunu@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Mohammed Keyvanzadeh <mohammadkeyvanzade94@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Geoffrey Booth <webadmin@geoffreybooth.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
The ellipsis in `All together` is not needed. I've had it on my list of
"small things to take care of when you get a chance" for a while. The
Microsoft Style Guide says to not use ellipses except in certain cases,
and that reminded me to do it. The day has arrived!
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41888
Reviewed-By: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Reviewed-By: Mohammed Keyvanzadeh <mohammadkeyvanzade94@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Mestery <mestery@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Filip Skokan <panva.ip@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41728
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Mohammed Keyvanzadeh <mohammadkeyvanzade94@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Mestery <mestery@protonmail.com>
Update mdast-util-to-markdown to 1.2.4 which reduces unnecessary
escaping of `_` and some other characters. Re-run markdown formatter.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40645
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40403
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Zijian Liu <lxxyxzj@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Upcoming remark-based formatting/linting will add a blank line between
comments in markdown. This is in preparation for that change.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40160
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Main changes:
- Replace current HTML anchor generation to match
header anchor generation in Github markdown.
- Remove unnecessary double namespacing on generated anchors/links (E.G.
`esm.md#loaders` instead of `esm.md#esm_loaders`).
- Anchors/links are automatically prefixed with their respective modules
when concatenated for usage in `all.html`.
Benefits:
- All anchor links within and between markdown API docs actually work.
- Adding new anchor links no longer requires contributors to generate
the HTML docs first to look up the correct anchors.
- Anchors are much shorter.
- All previous anchor links are preserved by generating hidden legacy
anchors.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/39304
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Notable Changes:
Diagnostics channel (experimental module):
`diagnostics_channel` is a new experimental module that provides an API
to create named channels to report arbitrary message data for
diagnostics purposes.
The module was initially introduced in Node.js v15.1.0 and is
backported to v14.17.0 to enable testing it at a larger scale.
With `diagnostics_channel`, Node.js core and module authors can publish
contextual data about what they are doing at a given time. This could
be the hostname and query string of a mysql query, for example. Just
create a named channel with `dc.channel(name)` and call
`channel.publish(data)` to send the data to any listeners to that
channel.
```js
const dc = require('diagnostics_channel');
const channel = dc.channel('mysql.query');
MySQL.prototype.query = function query(queryString, values, callback) {
// Broadcast query information whenever a query is made
channel.publish({
query: queryString,
host: this.hostname,
});
this.doQuery(queryString, values, callback);
};
```
Channels are like one big global event emitter but are split into
separate objects to ensure they get the best performance. If nothing is
listening to the channel, the publishing overhead should be as close to
zero as possible. Consuming channel data is as easy as using
`channel.subscribe(listener)` to run a function whenever a message is
published to that channel.
```js
const dc = require('diagnostics_channel');
const channel = dc.channel('mysql.query');
channel.subscribe(({ query, host }) => {
console.log(`mysql query to ${host}: ${query}`);
});
```
The data captured can be used to provide context for what an app is
doing at a given time. This can be used for things like augmenting
tracing data, tracking network and filesystem activity, logging
queries, and many other things. It's also a very useful data source
for diagnostics tools to provide a clearer picture of exactly what the
application is doing at a given point in the data they are presenting.
Contributed by Stephen Belanger (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/34895).
UUID support in the crypto module:
The new `crypto.randomUUID()` method now allows to generate random
[RFC 4122](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt) Version 4
UUID strings:
```js
const { randomUUID } = require('crypto');
console.log(randomUUID());
// 'aa7c91a1-f8fc-4339-b9db-f93fc7233429'
```
Contributed by James M Snell (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36729).
Experimental support for `AbortController` and `AbortSignal`:
Node.js 14.17.0 adds experimental partial support for `AbortController`
and `AbortSignal`.
Both constructors can be enabled globally using the
`--experimental-abortcontroller` flag.
Additionally, several Node.js APIs have been updated to support
`AbortSignal` for cancellation.
It is not mandatory to use the built-in constructors with them. Any
spec-compliant third-party alternatives should be compatible.
`AbortSignal` support was added to the following methods:
* `child_process.exec`
* `child_process.execFile`
* `child_process.fork`
* `child_process.spawn`
* `dgram.createSocket`
* `events.on`
* `events.once`
* `fs.readFile`
* `fs.watch`
* `fs.writeFile`
* `http.request`
* `https.request`
* `http2Session.request`
* The promisified variants of `setImmediate` and `setTimeout`
Other notable changes:
* doc:
* revoke deprecation of legacy url, change status to legacy (James M Snell) (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37784)
* add legacy status to stability index (James M Snell) (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37784)
* upgrade stability status of report API (Gireesh Punathil) (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35654)
* deps:
* V8: Backport various patches for Apple Silicon support (BoHong Li) (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/38051)
* update ICU to 68.1 (Michaël Zasso) (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36187)
* upgrade to libuv 1.41.0 (Colin Ihrig) (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37360)
* http:
* add http.ClientRequest.getRawHeaderNames() (simov) (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37660)
* report request start and end with diagnostics\_channel (Stephen Belanger) (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/34895)
* util:
* add getSystemErrorMap() impl (eladkeyshawn) (https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/38101)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/38507
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/36098
Co-authored-by: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Guy Bedford <guybedford@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37246
Reviewed-By: Bradley Farias <bradley.meck@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Linked PACKAGE_EXPORTS_RESOLVE to "Resolver Algorithm Specification" in
"ECMAScript modules" page, so that the `require` pseudocode is easier to
understand.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37135
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
remark-parse@9.0.0 combined with our html.js tool ends a list if a
multi-line item does not include indentation. Update our docs for this
formatting.
I looked around for a lint rule to enforce this but didn't find one
readily available. (Happy to be shown that I'm wrong about that!) We may
need to write one.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36049
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Daijiro Wachi <daijiro.wachi@gmail.com>
Using an iterable WeakMap (a data-structure that uses WeakRef and
WeakMap), we are able to: stop relying on Module._cache to
serialize source maps; stop requiring an error object when calling
findSourceMap().
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35915
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35529
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <rlau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Beth Griggs <bgriggs@redhat.com>
This helps catch broken links as part of the test suite. This also
improves the user experience when browsing the markdown files.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35191
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/35189
Reviewed-By: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <technicalcute@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Using a "Modules:" prefix groups all the related pages together when
using alphabetical order.
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/modules/issues/539
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/34663
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Guy Bedford <guybedford@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Geoffrey Booth <webmaster@geoffreybooth.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
We mostly have a single space between the punctuation that ends a
sentence and the start of the next sentence. Change instances with two
spaces to one.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/33995
Reviewed-By: Matheus Marchini <mat@mmarchini.me>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
These are changed to either ```text or ```console.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/33028
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Notable changes:
* ECMAScript Modules - `--experimental-modules` flag removal
* AsyncLocalStorage API (experimental)
* REPL previews
* REPL reverse-i-search
* REPL substring-based search
* Error monitoring
* Monitoring `error` events
* Monitoring uncaught exceptions
* File system APIs
* New function: `fs.readv`
* Optional parameters in `fs.read`
* Console `groupIndentation` option
* `maxStringLength` option for `util.inspect()`
* Stable N-API release 6
* Stable diagnostic reports
* Increase of the default server headers timeout
* New `--trace-sigint` CLI flag
* Various crypto APIs now support Diffie-Hellman secrets
* Added support for the `dns.ALL` flag in `dns.lookup()`
* Added a new experimental API to interact with Source Map V3 data
* Added support for passing a `transferList` along with `workerData` to
the `Worker` constructor
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/33197
Prior to this commit, Bash fenced code blocks in Markdown files had
inconsistent info strings. This has been corrected to standardize on
the less-obscure variant.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/33510
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
This feature does not work when a module is imported using ECMAScript
modules specification, therefore it is deprecated.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/modules/issues/469
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/32217
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>
Reviewed-By: Bradley Farias <bradley.meck@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
