https://github.com/Niminem/Nasp
Hey guys, I just finished rebuilding and releasing Nasp. It's a CLI tool for developing Google Apps Script projects locally using Nim.
About two years ago, I originally created Nasp as a rough, “get it working” tool so I could avoid the Apps Script editor and write everything in Nim instead. It worked, but it was inflexible. Especially once I started dealing with multiple users, moving projects around, and more complex workflows. It did the job, but it definitely wasn’t something I felt great about and had never made it public.
Recently I had to recreate an OAuth2 client for some work I’m doing after realizing the existing Nim OAuth package didn’t cover what I needed. I ended up building a new OAuth 2 library and for the first time, I leaned heavily on AI to help implement it. The result shocked the living hell out of me.
So I decided to take the same approach with Nasp and rebuild it properly over the weekend.
The whole thing followed a very deliberate, AI-assisted, test-driven development process.
The project was made fully modular, every new feature was added alongside tests, the README was updated continuously as part of the workflow, etc.
I handled the architecture and design decisions, and used AI as a guided implementation partner rather than letting it run wild. The end result is a much more robust and maintainable tool that re-implements all the original functionality plus the features I actually wanted back then.
Awesome.
So! What NASP does:
You can develop Google Apps Script projects locally.
You can write everything in Nim (or JS if you wanted to).
Sync and manage Apps Script projects without touching the online editor.
Scales cleanly across multiple users and projects.
There are more features planned (project deletion, auto-deployment, et.)but in its current state it already covers 99% of typical Apps Script workflows.
I mainly wanted to share two things: