Why doesn't Node.js have a native DOM?

Question

When I discovered that Node.js was built using the V8 JavaScript engine, I thought:

Great, web scraping will be easier as the page

Answer 1

Because there isn't a DOM. DOM stands for Document Object Model. There is no document in Node, so not DOM to manipulate it. That is definitively a browser thing.

You can use a library like cheerio though which gives you some simple DOM manipulation.

Node is server-level JavaScript. It's just the language applied to a basic system API, more like C++ or Java.