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>
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>
`require.main` was documented in a non-standard way.
With this PR, the previous section is left as is
to not break all the possible link references
inside and outside Node.js docs.
A standard section is added to the `require` properties
with a reference to the old description.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/19573
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.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>
Update documentation of modules.md for require.resolve.paths()
to include the possibillity of null as a return value if
the request string given matches a core module name.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18350
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/18230
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
`module is maintained by a third-party module` seems confusing. Changed
to `module is maintained by a third-party`.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17865
Reviewed-By: Weijia Wang <starkwang@126.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Minwoo Jung <minwoo@nodesource.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17712
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
The square module is described as exporting a constructor,
which would mean it would need to be invoked with the
new keyword in bar.js after requiring it. Otherwise it's
technically a factory function, not a constructor.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17364
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
The module introduction includes some uninformative text and some
repetitive text. Edit for clarity and brevity.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17463
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Provides list of all builtin modules in Node.
Includes modules of all types:
- prefixed (ex: _tls_common)
- deprecated (ex: sys)
- regular (ex: vm)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16386
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3307
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@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>
Make the style of "Note:" paragraphs consistent and document the
guidelines in `doc/STYLE_GUIDE.md`.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13133
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/13131
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Daijiro Wachi <daijiro.wachi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@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>
This is an initial step to eliminate most of parsing errors.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12563
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12557#issuecomment-296015032
Reviewed-By: Teddy Katz <teddy.katz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Yuta Hiroto <hello@about-hiroppy.com>
This behavior dates back to 2011 but was not documented.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11581
Reviewed-By: Bradley Farias <bradley.meck@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James 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>
Update documentation for `module` to reflect stability index 2 (Stable)
rather than 3 (Locked).
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11661
Ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/11200
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* 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>
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>
* 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>
