section1.9.md

Section 1.9: Core modules

Node.js is a Javascript engine (Google's V8 engine for Chrome, written in C++) that allows to run Javascript outside the browser. While numerous libraries are available for extending Node's functionalities, the engine comes with a set of core modules implementing basic functionalities.

There's currently 34 core modules included in Node:

[ 
  'assert',
  'buffer',
  'c/c++_addons',
  'child_process',
  'cluster',
  'console',
  'crypto',
  'deprecated_apis',
  'dns',
  'domain',
  'Events',
  'fs',
  'http',
  'https',
  'module',
  'net',
  'os',
  'path',
  'punycode',
  'querystring',
  'readline',
  'repl',
  'stream',
  'string_decoder',
  'timers',
  'tls_(ssl)',
  'tracing',
  'tty',
  'dgram',
  'url',
  'util',
  'v8',
  'vm',
  'zlib' 
]

• This list was obtained from the Node documentation
  • API.
  • JSON file.