Carbon

Compatibility Layer for Node Deno and Bun

Install

$ npm install @sinclair/carbon

Overview

Carbon is an experimental cross platform compatibility layer for Node, Deno and Bun.

License MIT

Http Server

The following starts an Http listener

import { Http } from '@sinclair/carbon'

const listener = await Http.listen({ port: 5000 }, request => {

  return new Response('hello world')
})

WebSocket Server

The following upgrades an Http request into a WebSocket

import { Http } from '@sinclair/carbon'

const listener = await Http.listen({ port: 5000 }, request => {

  return Http.upgrade(request, socket => {

    socket.send('hello world')
  })
})

Features

Carbon implements several API abstractions that provide a uniform way to interact with core functionality provided by each runtime. It is built exclusively for ESM and dynamic platform detection + dynamic ESM imports to load implementations for each runtime.

The following API's are implemented