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

Very cool idea which makes a lot of sense. Bun provides more (eg db drivers) but the DX is certainly a big part of its appeal.

For reference, the main author of Nub is Colin McDonnell who created Zod and even worked at Bun at some point.

I’m surprised to see this using a `--require` hook (rather than `--import`). Maybe something’s changed significantly since I was looking into building some similar functionality… but it makes me wonder about nuances in nub’s ESM support.

(When I was investigating this it was very early in Node’s `--import` story, but there were several edge cases with the more common ESM-to-CJS approaches that I wanted to address. Most were probably exceedingly niche concerns, but I’d expect top-level await to affect a meaningful subset of users.)

Hasn't Node been able to run TypeScript for a couple of versions? Why's the transpiler needed?

Just merged a PR migrating our entire monorepo to nub.

0 issues, ridiculously fast.

I actually really like this! Great choices all around.

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).

I saw this on twitter and loved it, such a good move on your part Colin. Hope the project picks up tons of steam!

I know some people who pronounce n00b like nub, which makes this sort of funny to me. (Maybe it's even intentional?)