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Ranvir
Ranvir

Reputation: 23

Location of NodeJS standard library

Can someone please help me find the location of standard NodeJS modules like http or fs?

When I write:

const http = require('http');

Where is the module coming from? For NPM this is easy to find, but strangely I can't find http.js or any other standard library file.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1869

Answers (3)

jait
jait

Reputation: 63

Unlike third-party dependencies Nodejs built-in modules like http or fs are bundled with the node binary that you have installed. This has to do with optimization so that they run faster.

One way to find them is in the source code of Node. You can go to the node official repo and find http and fs under the lib directory.

Upvotes: 0

Oxey405
Oxey405

Reputation: 13

Well this depends on which operating system you are using:

If you are on windows it's in C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules or at least I think...

If you want to know on linux check out this question on the askubuntu.com website. In this question, someone answered that it was in

/usr/local/lib/node or /usr/local/lib/node_modules

  • Tejas Lotlikar

There is a high chance that on mac, the location is the same as linux because macOS is based upon some "ancient" linux dist.

EDIT : If you have a custom installation path then (of course) nodeJS is in the folder you unpacked it. You can also check your user/system variables aka environment variables.

Upvotes: 1

Tawfik Nasser
Tawfik Nasser

Reputation: 1124

The actual running node location can be found with this command

node -e "console.log(process.execPath)"

this will output the executed bin compiled nodejs path. which will not really much help you.

what will help you is knowing the node version you are running and check the source code of the module you want. http.js .

or debug nodejs in real time. break point on the http module and then get into the module itself with the help of the debugger. check out this guide

Upvotes: 1

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