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Expand Up @@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ There are environments in which Node.js addons may need to be loaded multiple
times in multiple contexts. For example, the [Electron][] runtime runs multiple
instances of Node.js in a single process. Each instance will have its own
`require()` cache, and thus each instance will need a native addon to behave
correctly when loaded via `require()`. From the addon's perspective, this means
that it must support multiple initializations.
correctly when loaded via `require()`. This means that the addon
must support multiple initializations.

A context-aware addon can be constructed by using the macro
`NODE_MODULE_INITIALIZER`, which expands to the name of a function which Node.js
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