Install

One command, zero install scripts. The prebuilt binary for your platform ships as a per-platform optional dependency and is verified end-to-end.

npm install -g buildwithnexus

buildwithnexus        # or the short alias:
bwn

Requirements

Auto-updates

Once installed, buildwithnexus keeps itself current: at most once a day a detached background process checks npm and silently installs newer versions — the next launch prints a one-line notice. Startup never waits on the network.

# opt out of auto-updates
export BWN_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1

Package security

The npm package is built to come up clean on supply-chain scanners:

• No install scripts — nothing runs during npm install.
• No bundled sources or blobs — the main package is a few KB of readable JavaScript; binaries ship as per-platform packages (like esbuild) selected by os/cpu.
• Verified binaries — release assets are SHA-256-checked when packaged and carry build-provenance attestations (gh attestation verify).
• No eval, no minification, no network code in the wrapper — update checks run inside the CLI itself, not the npm package.

cargo install

With a Rust toolchain, install straight from crates.io (API docs on docs.rs):

cargo install buildwithnexus   # installs `buildwithnexus` + the `bwn` alias
cargo install bwn              # short-name alias crate

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/Garretts-Apps/buildwithnexus
cd buildwithnexus
cargo build --release --manifest-path harness/Cargo.toml