nub

I was recently made aware of Nub (https://github.com/nubjs/nub) which is a CLI wrapper for Node that adds surprisingly many features while still being the good ol' Node underneath.

What's wrong with just using Node? It's stable, has a good (and growing) standard library and has enough backing to be self sustaining. edit: There's also nub which is built on top of Node.js and removes some rough/legacy edges: https://github.com/nubjs/nub

Certainly. We're using subtrees now instead of submodules, lets avoids some tricky worktree/submodule interactions during local dev. We've already pulled changes since that PR landed. https://github.com/nubjs/nub/commit/b4abee87

Will you be able to integrate aube updates after vendoring it? https://github.com/nubjs/nub/pull/81

Colin here, creator of Nub. I’ve had the general shape of this in mind for years. Nub runs your code with stock `node`, augmented with a `--require` preload hook[0] that adds a transpiler (oxc-powered, packaged as a Node-API add-on), registers a module resolution hook[1], and injects polyfills as needed for APIs like `Worker`, `Temporal`, etc. All purely additive, your code ultimately runs using Node’s actual engine & stdlib implementations. [0] https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#-require-module [1] https://nodejs.org/api/module.html#moduleregisterhooksoption...