Our documentation uses em dashes inconsistently. They are treated
inconsistently typographically too. (For example, they are sometimes
surrounded by spaces and sometimes not.) They are also often confused
with ordinary hyphens such as in the CHANGELOG, where they are
inadvertently mixed together in a single list. The difference is
not obvious in the raw markdown but is very noticeable when rendered,
appearing to be a typographical error (which it in fact is).
The em dash is never needed. There are always alternatives. Remove em
dashes entirely.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/32080
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
posix -> POSIX
platform specific -> platform-specific
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24118
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
Previously only V8 options supported both dashes in them (making them
equivalent), but now Node.js also supports both styles so the note can
be removed.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23903
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18592
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: George Adams <george.adams@uk.ibm.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23864
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Some nits were also fixed in passing.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/22537
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Replace some redirected URLs with the final ones.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/21811
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
No need to announce obvious example code as being example code. Remove
unneeded "for example" text as one small way to try to keep the docs
more concise..
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18890
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matheus Marchini <matheus@sthima.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@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>
* Older experimental APIs have been removed.
[[`d731369b1d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d731369b1d)]
[#14414](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14414)
* **Errors**
* Improvements have been made to `buffer` module error messages.
* The assignment of static error codes to Node.js error continues:
* `buffer`
* `child_process`
* `console`
* `crypto`
* `dns`
* `events`
* `fs`
* `http`
* `inspector`
* `net`
* `path`
* `process`
* `querystring`
* `readline`
* `repl`
* `streams`
* `string_decoder`
* `timers`
* `tls`
* `url`
* `util`
* `v8`
* `zlib`
* **Child Processes**
* Errors are emitted on process nextTick.
* **Domains**
* The long-deprecated `.dispose()` method has been removed.
* **fs**
* The `fs.ReadStream` and `fs.WriteStream` classes now use `destroy()`.
* `fs` module callbacks are now invoked with an undefined context.
* **HTTP/1**
* A 400 Bad Request response will now be sent when parsing fails.
* Socket timeout will be set when the socket connects.
* A bug causing the request `'error'` event to fire twice was fixed.
* HTTP clients may now use generic `Duplex` streams in addition to `net.Socket`.
* **Intl**
* The deprecated `Intl.v8BreakIterator` has been removed.
* **Modules**
* The `require.resolve()` method now supports using custom lookup paths.
* **OS**
* The `os.EOL` property is now read-only.
* **Timers**
* `setTimeout()` will emit a warning if the timeout is larger that the maximum
32-bit unsigned integer.
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>
The docs implied that the parameters `from` and `to` are invalid only
if neither of them is a string; in fact, they are invalid as soon as one
of them is not a string.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13912
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Cai <davidcai1993@yahoo.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13714
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
oath.md: make order of properties consistent
tls.md: remove spaces in getPeerCertificate signature
tls.md: add deprecation notice to server.connections
http.md: fix signature of request.end
crypto.md: change crypto parameters to camelCase
vm.md: add missing apostrophe
vm.md: fix signature of vm.runInNewContext
zlib.md: improve description of zlib.createXYZ
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13491
Ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9538
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Add note to fs.md and path.md about Windows using per-drive current
working directory.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9378
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13330
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
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>
Add section to path docs that explains that path.posix.normalize
does not replace Windows slashes with POSIX slashes because POSIX
does not recognize / as a valid path separator.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12298
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12700
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Cai <davidcai1993@yahoo.com>
Add notes about path.parse(), path.basename() and path.dirname()
ignoring trailing slashes.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12181
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/6229
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Unify spaces, quotes, and semicolons. Update output examples.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12296
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@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/11489
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10136
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
* removed pseudo-code
* added info on which properties have priority
* modified examples to show ignored properties
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10046
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@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>
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/8527
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@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>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8370
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Prince John Wesley <princejohnwesley@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@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>
Single quotes in two of the examples were throwing off the
formatting of the path documentation on the Node.js website. This
commit expands two contractions to remove the offending quotes.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7817
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Claudio Rodriguez <cjrodr@yahoo.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Adds missing semicolons, removes extra white space, and properly indents
various code snippets in the documentation.
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: targos - Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7745
* 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>