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doc: clarify use of NAPI_EXPERIMENTAL #35195

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We've had a few questions about APIs not being available which
were related to not having specified NAPI_EXPERIMENTAL.

Add some additional documentation to explain this common
issue:

Refs: nodejs/node-addon-api#810

Signed-off-by: Michael Dawson [email protected]

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We've had a few questions about APIs not being available which
were related to not having specified `NAPI_EXPERIMENTAL`.

Add some additional documentation to explain this common
issue:

Refs: nodejs/node-addon-api#810

Signed-off-by: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>
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LGTM

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Per our guidelines we should avoid using "you" in our documentation. I tried to re-word it more passively.

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I realized that as it is the doc never explains that N-API version: and added in: are headers accompanying each N-API. I suggested improved wording to explain that.

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Linters look ok, doc only landing

mhdawson added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2020
We've had a few questions about APIs not being available which
were related to not having specified `NAPI_EXPERIMENTAL`.

Add some additional documentation to explain this common
issue:

Refs: nodejs/node-addon-api#810

Signed-off-by: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>

PR-URL: #35195
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Gabriel Schulhof <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <[email protected]>
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Landed in f4586c9

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ruyadorno pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 21, 2020
We've had a few questions about APIs not being available which
were related to not having specified `NAPI_EXPERIMENTAL`.

Add some additional documentation to explain this common
issue:

Refs: nodejs/node-addon-api#810

Signed-off-by: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>

PR-URL: #35195
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Gabriel Schulhof <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <[email protected]>
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We've had a few questions about APIs not being available which
were related to not having specified `NAPI_EXPERIMENTAL`.

Add some additional documentation to explain this common
issue:

Refs: nodejs/node-addon-api#810

Signed-off-by: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>

PR-URL: #35195
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Gabriel Schulhof <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <[email protected]>
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joesepi pushed a commit to joesepi/node that referenced this pull request Jan 8, 2021
We've had a few questions about APIs not being available which
were related to not having specified `NAPI_EXPERIMENTAL`.

Add some additional documentation to explain this common
issue:

Refs: nodejs/node-addon-api#810

Signed-off-by: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>

PR-URL: nodejs#35195
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Gabriel Schulhof <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <[email protected]>
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