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
Add information about what it means when colorMode is set to false.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/30887
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Add an `inspectOptions` option to the `console` constructor. That
way it's possible to define all inspection defaults for each
`console` instance instead of relying on the `inspect()` defaults.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24978
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/21782
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/21311
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Some other formatting nits were fixed
and some superfluous descriptions were simplified in passing.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20401
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
`console.table()` is implemented in Node.js core and no longer requires
the inspector for use.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20346
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.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
`console.trace()` function prints 'Trace: ', not 'Trace :'.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20176
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
This makes Node pretty-print objects with color by default
when `console.log()`-ing them.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/19372
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Add a way to tell `Console` instances to either always use, never use
or auto-detect color support and inspect objects accordingly.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/19372
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/19915
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Replace `{Array}` with `{type[]}`.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/19895
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Remove the various **Note:** prefixes throughout the docs.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18592
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Also, alphabetize all types in type-parser.js
and fix some nits in type formats.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18444
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This should not be important anymore in newer docs. The change is
also documented in the "changed" part of the function.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17707
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Make text for Console constructor more precise.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17519
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me>
Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
This method was previously exposed by V8 (since node 8.0.0) but not
implemented in node.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17152
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/17128
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Adds the console.debug() method, alias for console.log(). This method is
exposed by V8 and was only available in inspector until now. Also adds
matching test and documentation.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17033
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17004
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Khaidi Chu <i@2333.moe>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.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>
