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diff --git a/doc/api/modules.md b/doc/api/modules.md index 2475fa2755..c7d9d4b59c 100644 --- a/doc/api/modules.md +++ b/doc/api/modules.md @@ -376,8 +376,9 @@ Error: Cannot find module 'some-library' If the module identifier passed to `require()` is not a [core](#modules_core_modules) module, and does not begin with `'/'`, `'../'`, or `'./'`, then Node.js starts at the parent directory of the current module, and -adds `/node_modules`, and attempts to load the module from that location. Node -will not append `node_modules` to a path already ending in `node_modules`. +adds `/node_modules`, and attempts to load the module from that location. +Node.js will not append `node_modules` to a path already ending in +`node_modules`. If it is not found there, then it moves to the parent directory, and so on, until the root of the file system is reached. |