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What are uv and v8 in nodeJS

There are 2 directories uv and v8 in deps folder

First question : what is the definition of deps directory?

My second question: What are uv and v8 utilities in Node.js?

Solution

  • To add a bit more detail:

    libuv is a library for asynchronous I/O, originally developed for Node.js, and by now also used by a number of other projects. See https://github.com/libuv/libuv.

    V8 is the JavaScript engine that powers Google Chrome, other Chromium-derived browsers (Opera, Yandex Browser, the Android versions of Firefox Focus and Microsoft Edge, and a bunch of others), CEF-derived desktop software (GitHub's Atom, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, Valve's Steam, and others), Node.js, and many other embedding applications. See https://developers.google.com/v8/.