Globals to add

[chicoxyzzy]

List of globals to add:

• console (Add URLSearchParams and Console API #7)
• crypto
• Timers
• WebWorkers
• URL
• URLSearchParams (Add URLSearchParams and Console API #7)

[styfle]

Does Promise belong in the globals list?

[ljharb]

That’s already a language builtin; what needs to be added?

[littledan]

setTimeout

[joyeecheung]

The full range of global timer functions in Node.js:

• clearImmediate
• clearInterval
• clearTimeout
• setImmediate
• setInterval
• setTimeout

There are also queueMicrotask which is experimental, and WebAssembly which comes from V8. (Node.js's console is not entirely from V8 depending on where you are accessing it)

[joyeecheung]

Also Node.js implements parts of the Performance Timing API but it's still experimental and I don't recall plans to make it a global. It is intentionally different from the browser in some cases (e.g. nodejs/node#19563)

[joyeecheung]

BTW this script can be used to find Node.js-specific globals:

'use strict';

const vm = require('vm');
const globalsFromVM = JSON.parse(
  JSON.stringify(
    vm.runInNewContext('Reflect.ownKeys(globalThis)')
  )
);

const globalsFromNode = [];
for (const key of Reflect.ownKeys(globalThis)) {
  if (!globalsFromVM.includes(key)) {
    globalsFromNode.push(key);
  }
}

console.log(globalsFromNode.map(key => String(key)).join('\n'))