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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.