- -
-
Alias for stdin, analogous to the use of - in other command-line utilities.
The executed script is read from stdin, and remaining arguments are passed to the script.
- -
-
Indicate the end of command-line options.
Pass the rest of the arguments to the script.
If no script filename or eval/print script is supplied prior to this, then
the next argument will be used as a script filename.
- --abort-on-uncaught-exception
-
Aborting instead of exiting causes a core file to be generated for analysis.
- --completion-bash
-
Print source-able bash completion script for Node.js.
- -C , --conditions string
-
Use custom conditional exports conditions.
string
- --cpu-prof
-
Start the V8 CPU profiler on start up, and write the CPU profile to disk
before exit. If
--cpu-prof-dir
is not specified, the profile will be written to the current working directory
with a generated file name.
- --cpu-prof-dir
-
The directory where the CPU profiles generated by
--cpu-prof
will be placed.
The default value is controlled by the
--diagnostic-dir
command-line option.
- --cpu-prof-interval
-
The sampling interval in microseconds for the CPU profiles generated by
--cpu-prof
The default is
1000
- --cpu-prof-name
-
File name of the V8 CPU profile generated with
--cpu-prof
- --diagnostic-dir
-
Set the directory for all diagnostic output files.
Default is current working directory.
Set the directory to which all diagnostic output files will be written to.
Defaults to current working directory.
Affects the default output directory of:
--cpu-prof-dir
--heap-prof-dir
--redirect-warnings
- --disable-proto = mode
-
Disable the `Object.prototype.__proto__` property. If
mode
is `delete`, the property will be removed entirely. If
mode
is `throw`, accesses to the property will throw an exception with the code
`ERR_PROTO_ACCESS`.
- --disallow-code-generation-from-strings
-
Make built-in language features like `eval` and `new Function` that generate
code from strings throw an exception instead. This does not affect the Node.js
`vm` module.
- --enable-fips
-
Enable FIPS-compliant crypto at startup.
Requires Node.js to be built with
./configure --openssl-fips
- --enable-source-maps
-
Enable Source Map V3 support for stack traces.
- --experimental-default-type = type
-
Interpret as either ES modules or CommonJS modules input via --eval or STDIN, when --input-type is unspecified;
- --experimental-global-customevent
-
Expose the CustomEvent on the global scope.
- --experimental-global-webcrypto
-
Expose the Web Crypto API on the global scope.
- --experimental-import-meta-resolve
-
Enable experimental ES modules support for import.meta.resolve().
- --experimental-loader = module
-
Specify the
module
to use as a custom module loader.
- --experimental-network-imports
-
Enable experimental support for loading modules using `import` over `https:`.
- --experimental-policy
-
Use the specified file as a security policy.
- --experimental-shadow-realm
-
Use this flag to enable ShadowRealm support.
- --experimental-test-coverage
-
Enable code coverage in the test runner.
- --no-experimental-fetch
-
Disable experimental support for the Fetch API.
- --no-experimental-repl-await
-
Disable top-level await keyword support in REPL.
- --experimental-specifier-resolution
-
Select extension resolution algorithm for ES Modules; either 'explicit' (default) or 'node'.
- --experimental-vm-modules
-
Enable experimental ES module support in VM module.
- --experimental-wasi-unstable-preview1
-
Enable experimental WebAssembly System Interface support. This
flag is no longer required as WASI is enabled by default.
- --experimental-wasm-modules
-
Enable experimental WebAssembly module support.
- --force-context-aware
-
Disable loading native addons that are not context-aware.
- --force-fips
-
Force FIPS-compliant crypto on startup
(Cannot be disabled from script code).
Same requirements as
--enable-fips
- --frozen-intrinsics
-
Enable experimental frozen intrinsics support.
- --heapsnapshot-near-heap-limit = max_count
-
Generate heap snapshot when the V8 heap usage is approaching the heap limit.
No more than the specified number of snapshots will be generated.
- --heapsnapshot-signal = signal
-
Generate heap snapshot on specified signal.
- --heap-prof
-
Start the V8 heap profiler on start up, and write the heap profile to disk
before exit. If
--heap-prof-dir
is not specified, the profile will be written to the current working directory
with a generated file name.
- --heap-prof-dir
-
The directory where the heap profiles generated by
--heap-prof
will be placed.
The default value is controlled by the
--diagnostic-dir
command-line option.
- --heap-prof-interval
-
The average sampling interval in bytes for the heap profiles generated by
--heap-prof
The default is
512 * 1024
- --heap-prof-name
-
File name of the V8 heap profile generated with
--heap-prof
- --icu-data-dir = file
-
Specify ICU data load path.
Overrides
NODE_ICU_DATA
- --input-type = type
-
Set the module resolution type for input via --eval, --print or STDIN.
- --inspect-brk = [host:]port
-
Activate inspector on
host:port
and break at start of user script.
- --inspect-port = [host:]port
-
Set the
host:port
to be used when the inspector is activated.
- --inspect-publish-uid=stderr,http
-
Specify how the inspector WebSocket URL is exposed.
Valid values are
stderr
and
http
Default is
stderr,http
- --inspect = [host:]port
-
Activate inspector on
host:port
Default is
127.0.0.1:9229
V8 Inspector integration allows attaching Chrome DevTools and IDEs to Node.js instances for debugging and profiling.
It uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol.
- --insecure-http-parser
-
Use an insecure HTTP parser that accepts invalid HTTP headers. This may allow
interoperability with non-conformant HTTP implementations. It may also allow
request smuggling and other HTTP attacks that rely on invalid headers being
accepted. Avoid using this option.
- --jitless
-
Disable runtime allocation of executable memory. This may be required on
some platforms for security reasons. It can also reduce attack surface on
other platforms, but the performance impact may be severe.
This flag is inherited from V8 and is subject to change upstream. It may
disappear in a non-semver-major release.
- --max-http-header-size = size
-
Specify the maximum size of HTTP headers in bytes. Defaults to 16 KiB.
- --napi-modules
-
This option is a no-op.
It is kept for compatibility.
- --no-deprecation
-
Silence deprecation warnings.
- --no-extra-info-on-fatal-exception
-
Hide extra information on fatal exception that causes exit.
- --no-force-async-hooks-checks
-
Disable runtime checks for `async_hooks`.
These will still be enabled dynamically when `async_hooks` is enabled.
- --no-addons
-
Disable the `node-addons` exports condition as well as disable loading native
addons. When `--no-addons` is specified, calling `process.dlopen` or requiring
a native C++ addon will fail and throw an exception.
- --no-global-search-paths
-
Do not search modules from global paths.
- --no-warnings
-
Silence all process warnings (including deprecations).
- --node-memory-debug
-
Enable extra debug checks for memory leaks in Node.js internals. This is
usually only useful for developers debugging Node.js itself.
- --openssl-config = file
-
Load an OpenSSL configuration file on startup.
Among other uses, this can be used to enable FIPS-compliant crypto if Node.js is built with
./configure --openssl-fips
- --pending-deprecation
-
Emit pending deprecation warnings.
- --policy-integrity = sri
-
Instructs Node.js to error prior to running any code if the policy does not have the specified integrity. It expects a Subresource Integrity string as a parameter.
- --preserve-symlinks
-
Instructs the module loader to preserve symbolic links when resolving and caching modules other than the main module.
- --preserve-symlinks-main
-
Instructs the module loader to preserve symbolic links when resolving and caching the main module.
- --prof
-
Generate V8 profiler output.
- --prof-process
-
Process V8 profiler output generated using the V8 option
--prof
- --redirect-warnings = file
-
Write process warnings to the given
file
instead of printing to stderr.
- --report-compact
-
Write
diagnostic reports
in a compact format, single-line JSON.
- --report-dir --report-directory
-
Location at which the
diagnostic report
will be generated.
The `file` name may be an absolute path. If it is not, the default directory it will
be written to is controlled by the
--diagnostic-dir
command-line option.
- --report-filename
-
Name of the file to which the
diagnostic report
will be written.
- --report-on-fatalerror
-
Enables the
diagnostic report
to be triggered on fatal errors (internal errors within the Node.js runtime such
as out of memory) that leads to termination of the application. Useful to
inspect various diagnostic data elements such as heap, stack, event loop state,
resource consumption etc. to reason about the fatal error.
- --report-on-signal
-
Enables
diagnostic report
to be generated upon receiving the specified (or predefined) signal to the
running Node.js process. Default signal is SIGUSR2.
- --report-signal
-
Sets or resets the signal for
diagnostic report
generation (not supported on Windows). Default signal is SIGUSR2.
- --report-uncaught-exception
-
Enables
diagnostic report
to be generated on un-caught exceptions. Useful when inspecting JavaScript
stack in conjunction with native stack and other runtime environment data.
- --secure-heap = n
-
Specify the size of the OpenSSL secure heap. Any value less than 2 disables
the secure heap. The default is 0. The value must be a power of two.
- --secure-heap-min = n
-
Specify the minimum allocation from the OpenSSL secure heap. The default is 2. The value must be a power of two.
- --test
-
Starts the Node.js command line test runner.
- --test-concurrency
-
The maximum number of test files that the test runner CLI will execute
concurrently.
- --test-name-pattern
-
A regular expression that configures the test runner to only execute tests
whose name matches the provided pattern.
- --test-reporter
-
A test reporter to use when running tests.
- --test-reporter-destination
-
The destination for the corresponding test reporter.
- --test-only
-
Configures the test runner to only execute top level tests that have the `only`
option set.
- --test-shard
-
Test suite shard to execute in a format of <index>/<total>.
- --throw-deprecation
-
Throw errors for deprecations.
- --title = title
-
Specify process.title on startup.
- --tls-cipher-list = list
-
Specify an alternative default TLS cipher list.
Requires Node.js to be built with crypto support. (Default)
- --tls-keylog = file
-
Log TLS key material to a file. The key material is in NSS SSLKEYLOGFILE
format and can be used by software (such as Wireshark) to decrypt the TLS
traffic.
- --tls-max-v1.2
-
Set default maxVersion to 'TLSv1.2'. Use to disable support for TLSv1.3.
- --tls-max-v1.3
-
Set default maxVersion to 'TLSv1.3'. Use to enable support for TLSv1.3.
- --tls-min-v1.0
-
Set default minVersion to 'TLSv1'. Use for compatibility with old TLS clients
or servers.
- --tls-min-v1.1
-
Set default minVersion to 'TLSv1.1'. Use for compatibility with old TLS clients
or servers.
- --tls-min-v1.2
-
Set default minVersion to 'TLSv1.2'. This is the default for 12.x and later,
but the option is supported for compatibility with older Node.js versions.
- --tls-min-v1.3
-
Set default minVersion to 'TLSv1.3'. Use to disable support for TLSv1.2 in
favour of TLSv1.3, which is more secure.
- --trace-atomics-wait
-
Print short summaries of calls to
Atomics.wait()
This flag is deprecated.
- --trace-deprecation
-
Print stack traces for deprecations.
- --trace-event-categories categories
-
A comma-separated list of categories that should be traced when trace event tracing is enabled using
--trace-events-enabled
- --trace-event-file-pattern pattern
-
Template string specifying the filepath for the trace event data, it
supports
${rotation}
and
${pid}
- --trace-events-enabled
-
Enable the collection of trace event tracing information.
- --trace-exit
-
Prints a stack trace whenever an environment is exited proactively,
i.e. invoking `process.exit()`.
- --trace-sigint
-
Prints a stack trace on SIGINT.
- --trace-sync-io
-
Print a stack trace whenever synchronous I/O is detected after the first turn of the event loop.
- --trace-tls
-
Prints TLS packet trace information to stderr.
- --trace-uncaught
-
Print stack traces for uncaught exceptions; usually, the stack trace associated
with the creation of an
Error
is printed, whereas this makes Node.js also
print the stack trace associated with throwing the value (which does not need
to be an
Error
instance).
Enabling this option may affect garbage collection behavior negatively.
- --trace-warnings
-
Print stack traces for process warnings (including deprecations).
- --track-heap-objects
-
Track heap object allocations for heap snapshots.
- --unhandled-rejections=mode
-
Define the behavior for unhandled rejections. Can be one of `strict` (raise an error), `warn` (enforce warnings) or `none` (silence warnings).
- --use-bundled-ca , --use-openssl-ca
-
Use bundled Mozilla CA store as supplied by current Node.js version or use OpenSSL's default CA store.
The default store is selectable at build-time.
The bundled CA store, as supplied by Node.js, is a snapshot of Mozilla CA store that is fixed at release time.
It is identical on all supported platforms.
Using OpenSSL store allows for external modifications of the store.
For most Linux and BSD distributions, this store is maintained by the distribution maintainers and system administrators.
OpenSSL CA store location is dependent on configuration of the OpenSSL library but this can be altered at runtime using environment variables.
See
SSL_CERT_DIR
and
SSL_CERT_FILE
- --use-largepages = mode
-
Re-map the Node.js static code to large memory pages at startup. If supported on
the target system, this will cause the Node.js static code to be moved onto 2
MiB pages instead of 4 KiB pages.
mode
must have one of the following values:
`off` (the default value, meaning do not map), `on` (map and ignore failure,
reporting it to stderr), or `silent` (map and silently ignore failure).
- --v8-options
-
Print V8 command-line options.
- --v8-pool-size = num
-
Set V8's thread pool size which will be used to allocate background jobs.
If set to 0 then V8 will choose an appropriate size of the thread pool based on the number of online processors.
If the value provided is larger than V8's maximum, then the largest value will be chosen.
- --zero-fill-buffers
-
Automatically zero-fills all newly allocated Buffer and SlowBuffer instances.
- -c , --check
-
Check the script's syntax without executing it.
Exits with an error code if script is invalid.
- -e , --eval string
-
Evaluate
string
as JavaScript.
- -h , --help
-
Print command-line options.
The output of this option is less detailed than this document.
- -i , --interactive
-
Open the REPL even if stdin does not appear to be a terminal.
- -p , --print string
-
Identical to
-e
but prints the result.
- -r , --require module
-
Preload the specified
module
at startup.
Follows `require()`'s module resolution rules.
module
may be either a path to a file, or a Node.js module name.
- -v , --version
-
Print node's version.