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Documentation Sources

All external references for the Bare runtime ecosystem. Use these to verify information and check for updates.

Primary Sources

Resource	URL
Bare runtime	https://github.com/holepunchto/bare
Module system	https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-module
Node.js compat	https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-node-runtime

Pears Documentation

Resource	URL
Bare overview	https://docs.pears.com/reference/bare-overview.html
Node.js compat	https://docs.pears.com/reference/node-compat.html
API reference	https://docs.pears.com/reference/api.html

Key Dependencies

Resource	URL
libjs (V8 bindings)	https://github.com/holepunchto/libjs
libuv (event loop)	https://github.com/libuv/libuv
streamx (streams)	https://github.com/mafintosh/streamx
UDX (UDP)	https://github.com/holepunchto/udx-native

Module Repositories

Filesystem and Paths

bare-fs: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-fs
bare-path: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-path

Networking

bare-net: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-net
bare-http1: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-http1
bare-https: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-https
bare-dns: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-dns
bare-dgram: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-dgram
bare-tls: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-tls

Core

bare-buffer: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-buffer
bare-events: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-events
bare-stream: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-stream
bare-crypto: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-crypto
bare-zlib: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-zlib

Process and System

bare-process: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-process
bare-env: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-env
bare-os: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-os
bare-tty: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-tty
bare-readline: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-readline

Additional

bare-subprocess: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-subprocess
bare-timers: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-timers
bare-url: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-url
bare-fetch: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-fetch
bare-ws: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-ws
bare-worker: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-worker
bare-rpc: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-rpc
bare-bundle: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-bundle
bare-console: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-console
bare-channel: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-channel
bare-atomics: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-atomics
bare-daemon: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-daemon
bare-inspector: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-inspector
bare-repl: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-repl
bare-signals: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-signals
bare-encoding: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-encoding
bare-structured-clone: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-structured-clone
bare-zmq: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-zmq

Splectrum Context

Holepunch proposal: projects/01-engineering-foundation/splectrum-holepunch-proposal.md
spl2 Bare exploration: spl2/projects/04-bare-runtime-hello-world/

Checking for Updates

npm view bare version
npm view bare-fs version
npm view bare-net version

Or check all at once:

for mod in bare bare-fs bare-net bare-path \
  bare-buffer bare-events bare-stream bare-crypto \
  bare-process bare-os bare-module \
  bare-node-runtime; do
  echo "$mod: $(npm view $mod version)"
done

Module npm versions in this reference verified April 2026.