littledan/js-shared-interfaces

Globals to add

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chicoxyzzy commented

List of globals to add:

  • console (#7)
  • crypto
  • Timers
  • WebWorkers
  • URL
  • URLSearchParams (#7)
styfle commented

Does Promise belong in the globals list?

ljharb commented

That’s already a language builtin; what needs to be added?

littledan commented

setTimeout

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joyeecheung commented

The full range of global timer functions in Node.js:

  • clearImmediate
  • clearInterval
  • clearTimeout
  • setImmediate
  • setInterval
  • setTimeout

There are also queueMicrotask which is experimental, and WebAssembly which comes from V8. (Node.js's console is not entirely from V8 depending on where you are accessing it)

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joyeecheung commented

Also Node.js implements parts of the Performance Timing API but it's still experimental and I don't recall plans to make it a global. It is intentionally different from the browser in some cases (e.g. nodejs/node#19563)

joyeecheung commented

BTW this script can be used to find Node.js-specific globals:

'use strict';

const vm = require('vm');
const globalsFromVM = JSON.parse(
  JSON.stringify(
    vm.runInNewContext('Reflect.ownKeys(globalThis)')
  )
);

const globalsFromNode = [];
for (const key of Reflect.ownKeys(globalThis)) {
  if (!globalsFromVM.includes(key)) {
    globalsFromNode.push(key);
  }
}

console.log(globalsFromNode.map(key => String(key)).join('\n'))
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