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Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

colinmcd

Comments (38)

  • colinmcd
    Colin here, creator of Nub. I’ve had the general shape of this in mind for years. Nub runs your code with stock `node`, augmented with a `--require` preload hook[0] that adds a transpiler (oxc-powered, packaged as a Node-API add-on), registers a module resolution hook[1], and injects polyfills as needed for APIs like `Worker`, `Temporal`, etc. All purely additive, your code ultimately runs using Node’s actual engine & stdlib implementations.[0] https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#-require-module[1] https://nodejs.org/api/module.html#moduleregisterhooksoption...
  • ivanjermakov
    Respect for embracing existing tech instead of rewriting a worse version of it. Wonder where we would be today if all alternative-building effort went to Node instead (with proper leadership).
  • gorjusborg
    Very smart. You can't lose all your customers for vibe-coding a migration to Rust if you are already written in Rust ;)
  • jpambrun
    Am I expected to be able to run this in production on the backend, or do I still need to transpile and bundle? Do we expect the performance and memory overhead to be negligible. What would be the expectations on terms of added attack surface?
  • ssalbdivad
    Just merged a PR migrating our entire monorepo to nub.0 issues, ridiculously fast.
  • skybrian
    > TypeScript-friendly resolution: extensionless imports, tsconfig.json#pathsI’m wondering how that works. Deno has very complicated import resolution, so building my own import resolver to be compatible with it is a bit of a pain. (This is for a custom lint-like tool.)
  • kandros
    Love the idea, learning a lot of interesting things about node hooks by reading docs and some code
  • sgarrity
    I didn't even click on the link. I just came to give the author a hat-tip on the project name. Well played.
  • esafak
    Will you be able to integrate aube updates after vendoring it? https://github.com/nubjs/nub/pull/81
  • bookernath
    Nice, I think this fills a niche. Does it work on cloudflare workers?
  • montroser
    Nice. Can we get `nub --compile` up in there like Bun has?
  • GL26
    nice ! does this work on docker containers ?