neon-bindings/neon

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8423 stars · 286 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Neon is a Rust library and toolchain for writing safe, fast native Node.js addons using Node-API. It provides memory-safe bindings so Rust code can be embedded in Node.js applications and libraries.

Use cases

• write node.js native addons in rust
• speed up slow javascript hot paths with rust
• use rust crates from node.js
• run multithreaded parallel code in node safely
• call native os libraries from node.js
• build a node module with rust instead of c++

When to choose

• you need raw performance beyond what javascript can offer
• you want memory-safe native addons guaranteed by the rust compiler
• you need threads and parallelism without data races
• you want access to the rust ecosystem from node.js

When to avoid

• your workload is not performance-bound and plain javascript suffices
• you need full bun compatibility, which is still experimental
• you want to avoid a rust toolchain dependency in your build

Facets

library · maturity stable

sdk developer-tools concurrency developer-tools web-development backend cross-platform rust windows cross-platform nodejs-native-addons rust-bindings napi ffi node-api native-modules nodejs linux macos

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