This is merely an evented try...catch with the same API as node, nothing more.

This library is a dependency for browserify and webpack. Browserify/Webpack takes code targeted at node.js and makes it run in the browser. Node.js comes with API of its own that is not available in the browsers. Browserify/Webpack exposes this code to programs that are unaware they are running in a browser.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.