doc: fix Folders as Modules omission of index.json

This section was inconsistent with the actual behavior of `require` and
with other parts of this same document, which do describe the ability
to treat index.json as a module’s default file.

PR-URL: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/8868
Reviewed-By: jasnell - James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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Elan Shanker authored and James M Snell committed 2015-08-29 00:58:29 -04:00
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@@ -197,12 +197,13 @@ If this was in a folder at `./some-library`, then
This is the extent of Node's awareness of package.json files.
If there is no package.json file present in the directory, then node
will attempt to load an `index.js` or `index.node` file out of that
If there is no package.json file present in the directory, then node will
attempt to load an `index.js`, `index.json`, or `index.node` file out of that
directory. For example, if there was no package.json file in the above
example, then `require('./some-library')` would attempt to load:
* `./some-library/index.js`
* `./some-library/index.json`
* `./some-library/index.node`
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