builtins

property

config.builtins {Boolean}

Used to configure whether Node builtins modules are automatically loaded. If you (or a dependency) has code that does:

Boolean

var EventEmitter = require("events").EventEmitter;

The module events is a Node builtin module.

Use

By default Steal will load shims for the Node builtins modules (some of which work fine in the browser). If you'd like to disable this behavior (because you'd like to http to refer to local code, for example, you can disable with builtins: false:

"steal": {
  "builtins": false

  ...
}