Inveracity / nushell-bundler

create a binary out of nushell scripts

Nushell Bundler

⚠️ This is purely for fun

This is an example of how to create a binary out of nushell scripts using Go.

This means writing a whole command-line program in Nushell and then running it as an executable.

How does it work?

Go can embed static files into the binary at build time.

main.go simply takes the nu binary and nushell scripts put in the /src directory.

At runtime the Go program will write the nushell scripts to /tmp/gonu* but will execute nu from memory with the flag -n meaning it uses default Nu configurations.

Features

• Nested modules
• Pass commandline arguments

How to

Write some code in src/main.nu

build it

./toolkit build mytool # outputs: mytool

# try commandline argument
./mytool --help
./mytool --blue
./mytool boop

Requirements

bin	version
Go	>= 1.20
Nushell	any version