Returns an object containing commonly used constants for VM operations.
namespace
vm.constants
namespace constants
This constant, when used as the
contextObjectargument in vm APIs, instructs Node.js to create a context without wrapping its global object with another object in a Node.js-specific manner. As a result, theglobalThisvalue inside the new context would behave more closely to an ordinary one.When
vm.constants.DONT_CONTEXTIFYis used as thecontextObjectargument to createContext, the returned object is a proxy-like object to the global object in the newly created context with fewer Node.js-specific quirks. It is reference equal to theglobalThisvalue in the new context, can be modified from outside the context, and can be used to access built-ins in the new context directly.A constant that can be used as the
importModuleDynamicallyoption tovm.Scriptandvm.compileFunction()so that Node.js uses the default ESM loader from the main context to load the requested module.For detailed information, see Support of dynamic
import()in compilation APIs.