Node: Not all globals are documented

[dfahlander]

• Version: v4.3.1
• Platform: Windows 64-bit
• Subsystem: N/A

In the documentation of globals at https://nodejs.org/api/globals.html I'm missing certain globals, such as Uint16Array, Uint8Array, etc even though they are obviously globals and don't need to be required in.

For people trying to write universal javascript, it would be quite nice to have a proper documentation of all globals in node.

Running the following code will print out many globals that are missing in the global documentation page:

Object.getOwnPropertyNames(global).sort().forEach(x => console.log(x));

[addaleax]

I think documenting all of these would be out of scope for Node, but what would you think about e.g. linking to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects?

[jasnell]

+1 to linking

[mscdex]

Adding a note that node has many (other) global objects in common with modern browsers would be good to have (with the link that @addaleax suggested), rather than explicitly documenting each one, which is likely to change somewhat often.