Node.js v26.8.2 documentation
- Node.js v26.8.2
- Table of contents
- Index
- About this documentation
- Usage and example
- Assertion testing
- Asynchronous context tracking
- Async hooks
- Buffer
- C++ addons
- C/C++ addons with Node-API
- C++ embedder API
- Child processes
- Cluster
- Command-line options
- Console
- Crypto
- Debugger
- Deprecated APIs
- Diagnostics Channel
- DNS
- Domain
- Environment Variables
- Errors
- Events
- File system
- FFI
- Globals
- HTTP
- HTTP/2
- HTTPS
- Inspector
- Internationalization
- Iterable Streams API
- Modules: CommonJS modules
- Modules: ECMAScript modules
- Modules:
node:moduleAPI - Modules: Packages
- Modules: TypeScript
- Net
- OS
- Path
- Performance hooks
- Permissions
- Process
- Punycode
- Query strings
- Readline
- REPL
- Report
- Single executable applications
- SQLite
- Stream
- String decoder
- Test runner
- Timers
- TLS/SSL
- Trace events
- TTY
- UDP/datagram
- URL
- Utilities
- V8
- Virtual File System
- VM
- WASI
- Web Crypto API
- Web Streams API
- Worker threads
- Zlib
- Other versions
- Options
C++ embedder API#
Node.js provides a number of C++ APIs that can be used to execute JavaScript in a Node.js environment from other C++ software.
The documentation for these APIs can be found in src/node.h in the Node.js source tree. In addition to the APIs exposed by Node.js, some required concepts are provided by the V8 embedder API.
Because using Node.js as an embedded library is different from writing code that is executed by Node.js, breaking changes do not follow typical Node.js deprecation policy and may occur on each semver-major release without prior warning.