The Blender Manual is right. There is a viewer node under Output, but it's in the Composite Node Editor. I bet you are looking in the Material Node Editor.

To get one in the Material Node Editor, you have to activate the Node Wrangler addon, then you can can use <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+LMB to create a temporary Viewer Node. 

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