NDndyg·Feb 17, 2026Submission
Show HN: HTTP-nu – Nushell-scriptable HTTP server with SSE / Datastar
14 points · Open discussioncablehead
http-nu
Rust2025–2026
cablehead / http-nu
http-nu
The surprisingly performant, Nushell-scriptable, cross.stream-powered, Datastar-ready HTTP server that fits in your back pocket. 🐘💫🚀💜
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168GitHub stars
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What it is
The surprisingly performant, Nushell-scriptable, cross.stream-powered, Datastar-ready HTTP server that fits in your back pocket. 🐘💫🚀💜
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| Oct 6 | 2025-10-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-10-13 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 13 | 2025-10-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-10-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 20 | 2025-10-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 27 | 2025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 3 | 2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 10 | 2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 17 | 2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 24 | 2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 1 | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 8 | 2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Dec 22 | 2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 29 | 2025-12-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 5 | 2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 12 | 2026-01-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 19 | 2026-01-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 26 | 2026-01-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2 | 2026-02-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 9 | 2026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 16 | 2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesIf you like lo-fi ways to attach cli commands to http end-points, you may also like:
- https://github.com/cablehead/http-nu or for POSIX
- https://github.com/cablehead/http-sh
In Mock – An API creation and testing utility: ExamplesJust for curiosity there is also: https://github.com/cablehead/http-nu
Which seems like interesting UX.
In Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of useI maintain a Rust-based CLI HTTP server that embeds Nushell. It’s a handy little Swiss-army knife that’s replaced Nginx and Caddy for my personal projects.
You can serve a folder of static assets like this:
http-nu :3021 '{|req| .static "www" $req.path}'
https://github.com/cablehead/http-nu
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