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doc: fix modules require.resolve documentation

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The behavior of the `node_modules` lookup algorithm was
changed in #1177, but the documentation was not updated completely
to describe the new behavior.

The pseudocode of the lookup algorithm did not metion that
`index.json` is tried to be loaded if you require a folder.

Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
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Mathias Schreck 2014-09-03 13:45:36 +02:00 committed by Fedor Indutny
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@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ parent directory of the current module, and adds `/node_modules`, and
attempts to load the module from that location.
If it is not found there, then it moves to the parent directory, and so
on, until the root of the tree is reached.
on, until the root of the file system is reached.
For example, if the file at `'/home/ry/projects/foo.js'` called
`require('bar.js')`, then node would look in the following locations, in
@ -394,7 +394,8 @@ in pseudocode of what require.resolve does:
b. let M = X + (json main field)
c. LOAD_AS_FILE(M)
2. If X/index.js is a file, load X/index.js as JavaScript text. STOP
3. If X/index.node is a file, load X/index.node as binary addon. STOP
3. If X/index.json is a file, parse X/index.json to a JavaScript object. STOP
4. If X/index.node is a file, load X/index.node as binary addon. STOP
LOAD_NODE_MODULES(X, START)
1. let DIRS=NODE_MODULES_PATHS(START)
@ -404,15 +405,14 @@ in pseudocode of what require.resolve does:
NODE_MODULES_PATHS(START)
1. let PARTS = path split(START)
2. let ROOT = index of first instance of "node_modules" in PARTS, or 0
3. let I = count of PARTS - 1
4. let DIRS = []
5. while I > ROOT,
2. let I = count of PARTS - 1
3. let DIRS = []
4. while I >= 0,
a. if PARTS[I] = "node_modules" CONTINUE
c. DIR = path join(PARTS[0 .. I] + "node_modules")
b. DIRS = DIRS + DIR
c. let I = I - 1
6. return DIRS
5. return DIRS
## Loading from the global folders