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		maxloh on April 2, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bare: Run JavaScript Everywhere It seems that Bare is also built on top of V8 and libuv, much like Node.js. `Bare is built on top of https://github.com/holepunchto/libjs, which provides low-level bindings to V8 in an engine independent manner, and https://github.com/libuv/libuv, which provides an asynchronous I/O event loop. (from their README)` Moreover, you actually need Node.js and npm to install and run it. You need another JavaScript runtime as a prerequisite to install this JavaScript runtime… `npm i -g bare (also from their README)` I don't get it – is it worth it to choose Bare over a more established and welly-maintained solution?

kasperisager on April 2, 2025 [–]

npm allows for simple distribution of the prebuilt binaries, but is by no means a requirement and neither is Node.js. It's just a convenient way to ship things; npm is an excellent package manager!

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