Brahma-JS (brahma-firelight)

Brahma-Firelight is built to replace Node.js’s slow HTTP layer with a lightning-fast Rust-powered core. It’s written entirely in Rust using tokio and hyper, giving it native async speed, zero garbage collection pauses, and rock-solid stability. Through napi-rs, it exposes a clean Express-like API to JavaScript developers, so it feels simple to use while the heavy lifting—request parsing, routing, and response handling—runs natively in Rust. Brahma-Firelight is pure Rust with a direct binary bridge to Node, eliminating overhead and context switches. It uses a fire-and-forget model that sends responses without blocking, ideal for orchestrators, control panels, and microservice routers. Each worker runs independently, scaling cleanly across CPU cores without shared event loop contention. With structured HTTP routing, no dependency bloat, and single-binary deployment, Brahma-Firelight focuses on raw throughput and developer simplicity 💛

Install

npm install brahma-firelight
# or
yarn add brahma-firelight
# or
pnpm add brahma-firelight
# or
bun add brahma-firelight
# or
nypm add brahma-firelight
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Initialize

const { createApp, setJsResponseTimeout, setMaxBodyBytes } = require("brahma-firelight");
const app = createApp();
// This is Rust-Runtime config this works even node js event loop gets choked.
setJsResponseTimeout(12);  // return 503 if js failed to respond within 12 seconds
setMaxBodyBytes(5 * 1024 * 1024);  // set body-limit to 5mb handled natively by rust instead of node js
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Middleware

// CORS config
app.use((req,res,next)=>{
  res.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin","*");
  res.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods","GET,POST,PUT,DELETE,OPTIONS");
  res.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers","Content-Type, Authorization");
  if(req.method==="OPTIONS") res.send(204);
  else next();
});
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Routes

app.get("/hi",(req,res)=>res.json({msg:"Hello from Brahma"}));
app.post("/echo",(req,res)=>res.json(JSON.parse(req.body||"{}")));
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Cookies & Redirects

app.get("/set",(req,res)=>{
  res.send(200,{"Content-Type":"text/plain"},
    ["a=1; Path=/; HttpOnly"],"cookies set");
});
app.get("/goto",(req,res)=>res.redirect("https://google.com"));
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Listen & Shutdown

app.listen("0.0.0.0",2000,()=>console.log("Listening on 2000"));
// GRACEFUL shutdown handled safely with TOKIO
process.on("SIGINT",async()=>{await app.close(3000);process.exit(0);});  
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Benchmark

wrk -t1 -c200 -d10s http://127.0.0.1:2000/hi
# ~251.2k req/sec, <2ms avg latency (i5-12450H)
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