📗 API Reference Docs Problem

• Version: v16.6.2

• Platform: Darwin user.local 20.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.6.0: Wed Jun 23 00:26:31 PDT 2021; root:xnu-7195.141.2~5/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

• Subsystem: -

Location

Affected URL(s):

• https://nodejs.org/api/errors.html#errors_error_stack

Description

The doc says

The location information will be one of:

• native, if the frame represents a call internal to V8 (as in [].forEach).
• plain-filename.js:line:column, if the frame represents a call internal to Node.js.
• /absolute/path/to/file.js:line:column, if the frame represents a call in a user program, or its dependencies.

However the error stack trace actually contains file:// in es module files.
I'm not sure if it occurs in other situations.

Consider this input:

throw new Error("hello, world!");

Save and run node a.js:

/Users/hyrious/test-trace/a.js:1
throw new Error("hello, world!");
^

Error: hello, world!
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/hyrious/test-trace/a.js:1:7)

Save and run node a.mjs:

file:///Users/hyrious/test-trace/a.mjs:1
throw new Error("hello, world!");
      ^

Error: hello, world!
    at file:///Users/hyrious/test-trace/a.mjs:1:7

What I have to mention here is sindresorhus/clean-stack#27, using normal path would be better in many terminals. Please take that into consideration too.

My suggestion is node.js always returning normal path in error stack trace.

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