Table of Contents

• Command Line Options
  • Synopsis
  • Options
    • -v, --version
    • -h, --help
    • -e, --eval "script"
    • -p, --print "script"
    • -c, --check
    • -i, --interactive
    • -r, --require module
    • --no-deprecation
    • --trace-deprecation
    • --throw-deprecation
    • --no-warnings
    • --trace-warnings
    • --trace-sync-io
    • --zero-fill-buffers
    • --preserve-symlinks
    • --track-heap-objects
    • --prof-process
    • --v8-options
    • --tls-cipher-list=list
    • --enable-fips
    • --force-fips
    • --openssl-config=file
    • --icu-data-dir=file
  • Environment Variables
    • NODE_DEBUG=module[,…]
    • NODE_PATH=path[:…]
    • NODE_DISABLE_COLORS=1
    • NODE_ICU_DATA=file
    • NODE_REPL_HISTORY=file
    • NODE_TTY_UNSAFE_ASYNC=1
    • NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=file

Command Line Options#

Node.js comes with a variety of CLI options. These options expose built-in debugging, multiple ways to execute scripts, and other helpful runtime options.