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

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Post by 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...

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

bookernath wrote: post #4

Nice, I think this fills a niche. Does it work on cloudflare workers?

Cloudflare Workers is a different runtime and has its own toolchain around it. Nub could theoretically support it when executing files (spawn `wrangler dev` instead of `node` if wrangler.toml is detected or something) but really I'm focused on making the Node.js experience as good as possible.

The other pieces of the toolkit could absolutely be used: package manager, script runner, package runner. Works with anything that implements the Node module resolution algorithm (actually Yarn PnP also works out of the box...).

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GL26 wrote: post #5

nice ! does this work on docker containers ?

Yep, full support on macOS, Linux, Windows. No official image yet (I'll start on this now) but you can get started with something like this.

  FROM node:26-slim
  RUN npm i -g @nubjs/nub
Works with any Node version down to 18.19 but recommend 22.15+ for best performance (that's when synchronous registerHooks was introduced[0])

[0] https://nodejs.org/api/module.html#moduleregisterhooksoption...

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