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

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Nub toolkit for Node.js is directly actionable for platform engineering and developer experience.

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Nub is a Rust-based all-in-one toolkit that augments Node.js with Bun-like developer experience—offering 2.9× faster startup than tsx, 24× faster script execution than pnpm run, and 19× faster npx. It provides TypeScript/JSX support, automatic .env loading, native watch mode, and a built-in Node version manager, all without replacing the Node runtime or introducing vendor lock-in. The tool leverages Node extension surfaces like --import preloads, module.registerHooks(), and N-API native addons with embedded oxc transpilation.

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