diff --git a/.eslintrc.json b/.eslintrc.json
index 4981a747..2f067a53 100644
--- a/.eslintrc.json
+++ b/.eslintrc.json
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
     "es6": true
   },
   "plugins": [
-    "jsdoc"
+    "jsdoc",
+    "node"
   ],
   "extends": [
     "eslint:all",
@@ -65,10 +66,53 @@
     "space-before-function-paren": ["error", "never"],
     "vars-on-top": "off",
     "wrap-regex": "off",
+
     "jsdoc/check-examples": "error",
     "jsdoc/check-indentation": "error",
     "jsdoc/check-syntax": "error",
     "jsdoc/match-description": "error",
-    "jsdoc/require-description": "error"
+    "jsdoc/require-description": "error",
+
+    "node/handle-callback-err": "error",
+    "node/no-callback-literal": "error",
+    "node/no-exports-assign": "error",
+    "node/no-extraneous-import": "error",
+    "node/no-extraneous-require": "error",
+    "node/no-missing-import": "error",
+    "node/no-missing-require": "error",
+    "node/no-new-require": "error",
+    "node/no-path-concat": "error",
+    "node/no-process-exit": "error",
+    "node/no-unpublished-bin": "error",
+    "node/no-unpublished-import": "error",
+    "node/no-unpublished-require": "error",
+    "node/no-unsupported-features/es-builtins": "error",
+    "node/no-unsupported-features/es-syntax": "error",
+    "node/no-unsupported-features/node-builtins": ["error", {
+      "ignores": [
+        "fs.promises"
+      ]
+    }],
+    "node/process-exit-as-throw": "error",
+    "node/shebang": "error",
+    "node/no-deprecated-api": "error",
+    "node/callback-return": "error",
+    "node/exports-style": "error",
+    "node/file-extension-in-import": "error",
+    "node/global-require": "off",
+    "node/no-mixed-requires": "error",
+    "node/no-process-env": "error",
+    "node/no-restricted-import": "error",
+    "node/no-restricted-require": "error",
+    "node/no-sync": "off",
+    "node/prefer-global/buffer": "error",
+    "node/prefer-global/console": "error",
+    "node/prefer-global/process": "error",
+    "node/prefer-global/text-decoder": "error",
+    "node/prefer-global/text-encoder": "error",
+    "node/prefer-global/url-search-params": "error",
+    "node/prefer-global/url": "error",
+    "node/prefer-promises/dns": "error",
+    "node/prefer-promises/fs": "off"
   }
 }
diff --git a/demo/markdown-it-stub.js b/demo/markdown-it-stub.js
index ddb4dfe1..88fc2f41 100644
--- a/demo/markdown-it-stub.js
+++ b/demo/markdown-it-stub.js
@@ -5,9 +5,3 @@ module.exports = window.markdownit;
 if (!module.exports) {
   console.error("markdown-it must be loaded before markdownlint.");
 }
-
-// Use browser's URL implementation if not available on url module
-var url = require("url");
-if (!url.URL) {
-  url.URL = URL;
-}
diff --git a/doc/CustomRules.md b/doc/CustomRules.md
index 6abfe31b..874bf9d5 100644
--- a/doc/CustomRules.md
+++ b/doc/CustomRules.md
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ That function is called once for each file/string input and is passed the parsed
 A simple rule implementation looks like:
 
 ```js
-const { URL } = require("url");
-
 module.exports = {
   "names": [ "any-blockquote" ],
   "description": "Rule that reports an error for any blockquote",
diff --git a/example/typescript/type-check.ts b/example/typescript/type-check.ts
index 56874f33..f6ffd1c3 100644
--- a/example/typescript/type-check.ts
+++ b/example/typescript/type-check.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import markdownlint from "../..";
 
 const assert = require("assert");
-const { URL } = require("url");
 const markdownlintJsonPath = "../../.markdownlint.json";
 
 function assertConfiguration(config: markdownlint.Configuration) {
diff --git a/helpers/helpers.js b/helpers/helpers.js
index 4f020375..d86a20d3 100644
--- a/helpers/helpers.js
+++ b/helpers/helpers.js
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const emphasisMarkersRe = /[_*]/g;
 const linkRe = /\[(?:[^[\]]|\[[^\]]*\])*\](?:\(\S*\))?/g;
 
 // readFile options for reading with the UTF-8 encoding
-module.exports.utf8Encoding = { "encoding": "utf8" };
+module.exports.utf8Encoding = "utf8";
 
 // All punctuation characters (normal and full-width)
 module.exports.allPunctuation = ".,;:!?。，；：！？";
diff --git a/lib/markdownlint.js b/lib/markdownlint.js
index fdca779a..fb792564 100644
--- a/lib/markdownlint.js
+++ b/lib/markdownlint.js
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 const fs = require("fs");
 const path = require("path");
-const { URL } = require("url");
 const markdownIt = require("markdown-it");
 const rules = require("./rules");
 const helpers = require("../helpers");
@@ -681,6 +680,7 @@ function lintFile(
   }
   // Make a/synchronous call to read file
   if (synchronous) {
+    // @ts-ignore
     lintContentWrapper(null, fs.readFileSync(file, helpers.utf8Encoding));
   } else {
     fs.readFile(file, helpers.utf8Encoding, lintContentWrapper);
@@ -889,6 +889,7 @@ function readConfig(file, parsers, callback) {
  */
 function readConfigSync(file, parsers) {
   // Read file
+  // @ts-ignore
   const content = fs.readFileSync(file, helpers.utf8Encoding);
   // Try to parse file
   const { config, message } = parseConfiguration(file, content, parsers);
diff --git a/lib/rules.js b/lib/rules.js
index 4f145be5..8c0e3421 100644
--- a/lib/rules.js
+++ b/lib/rules.js
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 "use strict";
 
-const { URL } = require("url");
 const packageJson = require("../package.json");
 const homepage = packageJson.homepage;
 const version = packageJson.version;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 44d537dc..9977a09f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     "test-cover": "c8 --check-coverage --branches 100 --functions 100 --lines 100 --statements 100 node test/markdownlint-test.js",
     "test-declaration": "cd example/typescript && tsc && node type-check.js",
     "test-extra": "node test/markdownlint-test-extra.js",
-    "lint": "eslint --max-warnings 0 lib helpers test schema && eslint --env browser --global markdownit --global markdownlint --rule \"no-unused-vars: 0, no-extend-native: 0, max-statements: 0, no-console: 0, no-var: 0\" demo && eslint --rule \"no-console: 0, no-invalid-this: 0, no-shadow: 0, object-property-newline: 0\" example",
+    "lint": "eslint --max-warnings 0 lib helpers test schema && eslint --env browser --global markdownit --global markdownlint --rule \"no-unused-vars: 0, no-extend-native: 0, max-statements: 0, no-console: 0, no-var: 0\" demo && eslint --rule \"no-console: 0, no-invalid-this: 0, no-shadow: 0, object-property-newline: 0, node/no-missing-require: 0, node/no-extraneous-require: 0\" example",
     "ci": "npm run test-cover && npm run lint && npm run test-declaration",
     "build-config-schema": "node schema/build-config-schema.js",
     "build-declaration": "tsc --allowJs --declaration --outDir declaration --resolveJsonModule lib/markdownlint.js && cpy declaration/lib/markdownlint.d.ts lib && rimraf declaration",
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
     "cpy-cli": "~3.1.1",
     "eslint": "~7.8.1",
     "eslint-plugin-jsdoc": "~30.3.1",
+    "eslint-plugin-node": "~11.1.0",
     "globby": "~11.0.1",
     "js-yaml": "~3.14.0",
     "make-dir-cli": "~2.0.0",
diff --git a/test/markdownlint-test.js b/test/markdownlint-test.js
index 077e94cf..9e7b8683 100644
--- a/test/markdownlint-test.js
+++ b/test/markdownlint-test.js
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 const fs = require("fs");
 const os = require("os");
 const path = require("path");
-const { URL } = require("url");
 const { promisify } = require("util");
 const md = require("markdown-it")();
 const pluginInline = require("markdown-it-for-inline");
@@ -3946,6 +3945,16 @@ tape("customRulesLintJavaScript", (test) => {
     test.ifError(err);
     const expected = {
       "test/lint-javascript.md": [
+        {
+          "lineNumber": 8,
+          "ruleNames": [ "lint-javascript" ],
+          "ruleDescription": "Rule that lints JavaScript code",
+          "ruleInformation": null,
+          "errorDetail":
+            "Definition for rule 'node/handle-callback-err' was not found.",
+          "errorContext": "\"use strict\";",
+          "errorRange": null
+        },
         {
           "lineNumber": 10,
           "ruleNames": [ "lint-javascript" ],
diff --git a/test/rules/any-blockquote.js b/test/rules/any-blockquote.js
index 647fe767..a9e8dd82 100644
--- a/test/rules/any-blockquote.js
+++ b/test/rules/any-blockquote.js
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 "use strict";
 
-const { URL } = require("url");
 const { filterTokens } = require("markdownlint-rule-helpers");
 
 module.exports = {
diff --git a/test/rules/letters-E-X.js b/test/rules/letters-E-X.js
index 124cd9be..5a39ab29 100644
--- a/test/rules/letters-E-X.js
+++ b/test/rules/letters-E-X.js
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 "use strict";
 
-const { URL } = require("url");
-
 module.exports = {
   "names": [ "letters-E-X", "letter-E-letter-X", "contains-ex" ],
   "description": "Rule that reports an error for lines with the letters 'EX'",