This page is mostly a mirror of the updated manual page.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5787
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Bryan English <bryan@bryanenglish.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Lindstädt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
Added appropriate in-document links. Clarified a bit of
`setImmediate`, including a quick grammar fix (plural possessive
apostrophe).
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5792
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
This uses libuv's mkdtemp function to provide a way to create a
temporary folder, using a prefix as the path. The prefix is appended
six random characters. The callback function will receive the name
of the folder that was created.
Usage example:
fs.mkdtemp('/tmp/foo-', function(err, folder) {
console.log(folder);
// Prints: /tmp/foo-Tedi42
});
The fs.mkdtempSync version is also provided. Usage example:
console.log(fs.mkdtemp('/tmp/foo-'));
// Prints: tmp/foo-Tedi42
This pull request also includes the relevant documentation changes
and tests.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5333
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Brings tls.markdown into alignment with the node.js
styleguide, specifically regarding the use of
personal pronouns. Also, fixes various typos,
punctuation errors, missing definite/indefinite
articles and other minor grammatical issues.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5706
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
The need for an overview of blocking vs non-blocking was
identified in the docs WG Q1 roadmap. As there are several
topics also pending creation, this one tries to hit the correct
level of detail based on completion of the others. One
which is referenced is
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4936/files and URLs
within this PR need to change based on where that will land
on the node website.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5326
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
This commit addresses https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5431 by
changing the way that the repl handles assignment to the global _
variable.
Prior to this commit, node sets the result of the last expression
evaluated in the repl to `_`. This causes problems for users of
underscore, lodash and other packages where it is common to assign
`_` to the package, e.g. `_ = require('lodash');`.
Changes in this commit now result in the following behavior.
- If unassigned on the repl, `_` continues to refer to the last
evaluated expression.
- If assigned, the default behavior of assigning `_` to the last
evaluated expression is disabled, and `_` now references whatever
value was explicitly set. A warning is issued on the repl -
'expression assignment to _ now disabled'.
- If `_` is assigned multiple times, the warning is only displayed once.
- When `.clear` is executed in the repl, `_` continues to refer to its
most recent value, whatever that is (this is per existing behavior).
If `_` had been explicitly set prior to `.clear` it will not change
again with the evaluation of the next expression.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5535
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5431
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
The string template was closed after `${buf.length}`
causing a syntax error within the example.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5781
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Previously, we emitted ip and addressType. This change includes the host
as the last argument to the lookup event.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5598
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
This commit makes input type checking consistent across all path
functions.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5348
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Changes the multiline return example commments in querystring
which have the example out-of-comment, into single comment
lines to remain consistent with other docs.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5705
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
The format of certain code comments in the `path` documentation results
in the code blocks being invalid. I also find it confusing at least as
formatted on the website. This change is intended to improve those
comments.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5670
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Document that util._extend was never intended to be used
and should be considered deprecated.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4903
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Uses better troff formatting.
Removes v8 options from the man page.
Also edits `node -h` in node.cc slightly.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5497
Reviewed-By: James Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Several changes:
* Soft-Deprecate Buffer() constructors
* Add `Buffer.from()`, `Buffer.alloc()`, and `Buffer.allocUnsafe()`
* Add `--zero-fill-buffers` command line option
* Add byteOffset and length to `new Buffer(arrayBuffer)` constructor
* buffer.fill('') previously had no effect, now zero-fills
* Update the docs
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4682
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
`Console` constructor checks that `stdout.write()` is a function but
does not do an equivalent check for `stderr.write()`. If `stderr` is not
specified in the constructor, then `stderr` is set to be `stdout`.
However, if `stderr` is specified, but `stderr.write()` is not a
function, then an exception is not thrown until `console.error()` is
called.
This change adds the same check for 'stderr' in the constructor that is
there for `stdout`. If `stderr` fails the check, then a `TypeError` is
thrown.
Took the opportunity to copyedit the `console` doc a little too.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5635
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Per https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1817, there are many modules
that currently abuse the private `_events` property on EventEmitter.
One of the ways it is used is to determine if a particular event is
being listened for. This adds a simple `eventNames()` method that
returns an array of the events with currently registered listeners.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5617
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
The current documentation for Convenience Methods specifies that
the first argument can be either
`string or buffer`, `string` or `raw Buffer`.
This commit replaces all these instances with `Buffer or string`.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5685
Reviewed-By: Claudio Rodriguez <cjrodr@yahoo.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
The current documentation for writable.write only specifies that the
callback is called "once the data has been fully handled". It is
ambiguous whether this means "successfully handled" and, if so,
whether the callback is called if the data can not be successfully
handled (i.e. an error occurs).
The ambiguity is not only in the documentation. The stream class
implementations differ on this point. stream.Writable invokes the
callback with any errors that occur during parameter checking or
during calls to _write. However, not all classes return all errors
to _write. zlib.Zlib does pass argument and state errors to the
_write (_transform) callback, but does not pass data errors.
http.OutgoingMessage passes argument type errors and some other types
of errors, but not all.
This inconsistency is behind issue #1746 and, I suspect, other issues
in client code which passes a callback to write.
This commit takes no position on whether the callback error behavior
should changed, but simply attempts to document the current behavior
in a way that is open to changes so that users are not caught by
surprise.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4810
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremy Whitlock <jwhitlock@apache.org>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5678
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5678
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5678
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This commit updates events doc to describe removeListener behaviour
when it is called within a listener. An example is added to make
it more evident.
A test is also incuded to make this behaviour consistent in future
releases.
Fixes: nodejs/node#4759
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5201
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
We recently sandboxed the release CI jobs to their own Jenkins instance
This commit updates the links found in `doc/releases.md` to point
people in the right direction.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5632
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5622
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5628
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
The docs mentioned that the docs source live in
the node source, but did not link to same.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4591
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
also change stripe color to RGB 68 136 62
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5531
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Rework the doc a bit to tighten it up, including removing the
use of `you`
Fix some line wrapping issues.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5287
Reviewed-By: Roman Klauke <romaaan.git@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
...
Also fixed a minor color issue with :focus on the title.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5548
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Do not treat crypto inputs as `binary` strings, convert them to Buffers
using `new Buffer(..., 'utf8')`, or using newly updated StringBytes
APIs.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5522
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5472
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5410
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
`readable.setEncoding(null)` - may be the most preferable way to proxy
a binary data without any encoding/decoding overhead
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5155
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
This adds a paragraph in the Module Caching Caveats section about the
behavior of require when Node is running on top of a file system (e.g.
HFS) or operating system (e.g. Windows) that will not consider the case
of file paths to find files.
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
