It can't be idiomatic if it's not in general use and therefore hasn't
been picked up by users. It's not even in browsers yet.
"Idiomatic" use is an emergent property that comes from observed use
and this feature is so new (to browsers and Node) that it can't
possibly be. In general I don't think it's the place of the Node API
docs to observe what emerges as idiomatic Node.js.
It also can't be a recommended feature (if that was the intent of the
language) because it's marked experimental. For now, it's just a
feature, nothing more. Recommendations and/or observations about it
being 'idiomatic' can come later.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23885
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Yuta Hiroto <hello@hiroppy.me>
Reviewed-By: Matheus Marchini <mat@mmarchini.me>
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23794
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matheus Marchini <mat@mmarchini.me>
* Assert
* Calling `assert.fail()` with more than one argument is deprecated. #70dcacd710
* Calling `assert.ok()` with no arguments will now throw. #3cd7977a42
* Calling `assert.ifError()` will now throw with any argument other than `undefined` or `null`. Previously the method would throw with any truthy value. #e65a6e81ef
* The `assert.rejects()` and `assert.doesNotReject()` methods have been added for working with async functions. #599337f43e
* Async_hooks
* Older experimental async_hooks APIs have been removed. #1cc6b993b9
* Buffer
* Uses of `new Buffer()` and `Buffer()` outside of the `node_modules` directory will now emit a runtime deprecation warning. #9d4ab90117
* `Buffer.isEncoding()` now returns `undefined` for falsy values, including an empty string. #452eed956e
* `Buffer.fill()` will throw if an attempt is made to fill with an empty `Buffer`. #1e802539b2
* Child Process
* Undefined properties of env are ignored. #38ee25e2e2, #85739b6c5b
* Console
* The `console.table()` method has been added. #97ace04492
* Crypto
* The `crypto.createCipher()` and `crypto.createDecipher()` methods have been deprecated. Please use `crypto.createCipheriv()` and `crypto.createDecipheriv()` instead. #81f88e30dd
* The `decipher.finaltol()` method has been deprecated. #19f3927d92
* The `crypto.DEFAULT_ENCODING` property has been deprecated. #6035beea93
* The `ECDH.convertKey()` method has been added. #f2e02883e7
* The `crypto.fips` property has been deprecated. #6e7992e8b8
* Dependencies
* V8 has been updated to 6.6. #9daebb48d6
* OpenSSL has been updated to 1.1.0h. #66cb29e646
* EventEmitter
* The `EventEmitter.prototype.off()` method has been added as an alias for `EventEmitter.prototype.removeListener()`. #3bb6f07d52
* File System
* The `fs.promises` API provides experimental promisified versions of the `fs` functions. #329fc78e49
* Invalid path errors are now thrown synchronously. #d8f73385e2
* The `fs.readFile()` method now partitions reads to avoid thread pool exhaustion. #67a4ce1c6e
* HTTP
* Processing of HTTP Status codes `100`, `102-199` has been improved. #baf8495078
* Multi-byte characters in URL paths are now forbidden. #b961d9fd83
* N-API
* The n-api is no longer experimental. #cd7d7b15c1
* Net
* The `'close'` event will be emitted after `'end'`. #9b7a6914a7
* Perf_hooks
* The `PerformanceObserver` class is now an `AsyncResource` and can be monitored using `async_hooks`. #009e41826f
* Trace events are now emitted for performance events. #9e509b622b
* The `performance` API has been simplified. #2ec6995555
* Performance milestone marks will be emitted as trace events. #96cb4fb795
* Process
* Using non-string values for `process.env` is deprecated. #5826fe4e79
* The `process.assert()` method is deprecated. #703e37cf3f
* REPL
* REPL now experimentally supports top-level await when using the `--experimental-repl-await` flag. #eeab7bc068
* The previously deprecated "magic mode" has been removed. #4893f70d12
* The previously deprecated `NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE` environment variable has been removed. #60c9ad7979
* Proxy objects are shown as Proxy objects when inspected. #90a43906ab
* Streams
* The `'readable'` event is now always deferred with nextTick. #1e0f3315c7
* A new `pipeline()` method has been provided for building end-to-data stream pipelines. #a5cf3feaf1
* Experimental support for async for-await has been added to `stream.Readable`. #61b4d60c5d
* Timers
* The `enroll()` and `unenroll()` methods have been deprecated. #68783ae0b8
* TLS
* The `tls.convertNONProtocols()` method has been deprecated. #9204a0db6e
* Support for NPN (next protocol negotiation) has been dropped. #5bfbe5ceae
* The `ecdhCurve` default is now `'auto'`. #af78840b19
* Trace Events
* A new `trace_events` top-level module allows trace event categories to be enabled/disabld at runtime. #da5d818a54
* URL
* The WHATWG URL API is now a global. #312414662b
* Util
* `util.types.is[…]` type checks have been added. #b20af8088a
* Support for bigint formatting has been added to `util.inspect()`. #39dc947409
Install URL and URLSearchParams on the global object, like they can be
found in browser environments.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18281
Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Daijiro Wachi <daijiro.wachi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Each page of the API documentation should have links to other versions
of the same page. This will make it easier to switch between the current
"live" release at nodejs.org and LTS versions.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10958
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/10726
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12726
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Replace uses of the pronouns `you` and `your` throughout
the docs + other minor style nits
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12673
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
- fix a number of uppercase types
- lowercase 'integer'
- consistent formatting in crypto
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11697
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10981
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
__dirname is path.dirname(__filename), but its docs, specifically the
attempt to describe javascript scope in terms of "running" and
"executing" had drifted apart. Rework to describe one as a variation of
the other, move the example, and just describe the names in terms of the
module, and it's local variables rather than the ill defined execution
concepts.
Fix: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5525
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10527
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Currently, some of the docs use different indentation for comments
in the code examples. This commit makes the indentation consistent
by putting the comments at the beginning of the line (really no
indentation that is).
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9518
Reviewed-By: Teddy Katz <teddy.katz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Discourage using require.extensions because it slows down the module
loader. The number of file system operations that the module system
has to perform in order to resolve a `require(...)` statement to a
filename is proportional to the number of registered extensions.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9196
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8485
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.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>
* Fix markdown code sample in releases.md, it was <a id="x.y.x></a>"
* Fix some markdown errors, e.g. in changelogs
* Fix broken defs links, e.g. in domain-postmortem.md
* Fix other broken refs, by addaleax
* Add links to some defs that were present but not linked to
* Remove dead defs
* Move defs to the bottom (one file affected)
* Add language indicators to all code blocks, using `txt` when no
specific language could be chosen
* Some minor formatting changes (spaces, ident, headings)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7637
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Overall improvements to timers.md documentation,
Includes squashed commit from @bengl:
doc: add timer classes
The timers returned by `setTimeout` and friends are
actually instances of `Timeout` and `Immediate`.
Documenting them as such, so that the `ref` and
`unref` methods can be identified as methods on
`Timeout` objects.
Sparked by discussion in #5792
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6937
Reviewed-By: Robert Jefe Lindstaedt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Bryan English <bryan@bryanenglish.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6473
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Lindstaedt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
* doc: rename .markdown references in content
* doc: rename to .md in tools
* doc: rename to .md in CONTRIBUTING.md
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/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>