# Building Tools

## Overview

Holepunch provides a suite of tools for building, bundling, and deploying P2P apps across platforms. Centered around Pear (bundler/runtime) and Bare (JS engine).

## Key Tools

- **Pear CLI**: `pear init/release/run` – app scaffolding, hot updates.
- **Bare Build**: `bare-build`, `bare-bundle` for native binaries.
- **CMake Ports**: `cmake-pear`, `cmake-bare`, `cmake-drive` for C++/native integrations.
- **Prebuilds**: `prebuild-containers`, `chromium-prebuilds` for deps.

## Workflow

```
git clone app
pear init
pear run dev
pear release --platform android
```

## Benchmarks (Bare vs Node.js, js-engine-benchmark 2026)

| Platform | Runtime | Score | Size | Eff/MB |
|----------|---------|-------|------|--------|
| Ubuntu x64 | Bare | 40k | 43MB | 947 |
| Node | 41k | 102MB | 406 |
| macOS arm | Bare | 53k | 33MB | 1638 |
| Node | 55k | 94MB | 591 |

Bare: 97% Node speed, 2-3x efficient.

Links: [Pear](https://github.com/holepunchto/pear), [Bare](https://github.com/holepunchto/bare)