holepunchto/bare

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1222 stars · 32 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Bare is a small, modular JavaScript runtime built on V8 (via libjs) and libuv, designed for desktop and mobile with embedding and cross-device support as core use cases. It provides an asynchronous, event-driven architecture like Node.js, with CJS/ESM interop, native addons, and lightweight threads, making it well suited for peer-to-peer applications.

Use cases

• run javascript on mobile and desktop from one runtime
• embed a javascript engine in a native application
• build peer-to-peer networked apps in javascript
• lightweight alternative to node.js
• run javascript on embedded or low-resource hardware
• write cross-platform scripts with node-like apis

When to choose

• you need a minimal, embeddable JS runtime across phones and desktops
• you want Node-like async JavaScript with a smaller footprint
• you're building P2P apps in the Pear/Holepunch ecosystem

When to avoid

• you rely on the full Node.js standard library and npm ecosystem compatibility
• you need mature, battle-tested production tooling and long-term LTS support
• your project depends on Node-specific native modules

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

interpreter concurrency http-server developer-tools programming-languages developer-tools cross-platform mobile-development desktop-applications windows cli cross-platform javascript-runtime v8 libuv nodejs-alternative embeddable p2p native-addons esm cjs linux macos android ios

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