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doc: add docs on NodeEventTarget
While researching EventEmitter versus Node.js's EventTarget versus DOM EventTarget, I found these docs on NodeEventTarget and was confused when I couldn't find NodeEventTarget itself. As far as I can tell, NodeEventTarget is used exactly once - by MessagePort. This makes me wonder if NodeEventTarget should be deprecated and/or become undocumented - but these docs are a minimal, hopefully helpful step if that isn't desirable.
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The `NodeEventTarget` is a Node.js-specific extension to `EventTarget`
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that emulates a subset of the `EventEmitter` API.
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`NodeEventTarget` is not part of the Node.js public API itself but is implemented
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by some Node.js classes.
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#### `nodeEventTarget.addListener(type, listener)`
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