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 Design overview
 ===============
 
-libuv is cross-platform support library which was originally written for NodeJS. It's designed
+libuv is cross-platform support library which was originally written for `Node.js`_. It's designed
 around the event-driven asynchronous I/O model.
 
+.. _Node.js: https://nodejs.org
+
 The library provides much more than a simple abstraction over different I/O polling mechanisms:
 'handles' and 'streams' provide a high level abstraction for sockets and other entities;
 cross-platform file I/O and threading functionality is also provided, amongst other things.