Addendum: After I published this blog post, I got some feedback from one of Node’s maintainers about some of the things I mentioned. In the post below, the things that I and the code refer to as “built-in modules” are actually bindings, which are JavaScript objects created by C++ that represent a module. It appears that due to some legacy reasons, they are referred to as “built-in modules” in the actual code. In reality this blog post should be titled “How does Node reigster modul...
