You would think by looking at the code that the creators had a 30 word vocabulary, because 80% of the code uses the same six nouns and four verbs to pass data around and what you use those for depends on the context of who is calling it.

Oh, but the entire thing is written using promises, so most of your function calls have no context. It's hell, and I'm starting to worry that Node has dug itself a reputation hole it will never get out of.