vanilla minimalist netcat written in ES6
use:
node nc protocol host port [encoding]
protocol = TCP - TLS
host = IPV4 - IPV6
encoding = 'hex' - 'utf8' - 'binary' - 'ascii', ... ( all node.js encodings )
example
node nc tcp 127.0.0.1 8000
node nc tls 127.0.0.1 443 hex