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Bun

Bun is a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime

Run, test, transpile, and bundle JavaScript & TypeScript projects — all in Bun. Bun is a new JavaScript runtime built for speed, with a native bundler, transpiler, test runner, and npm-compatible package manager baked-in.

What is Bun?

Bun is a new JavaScript runtime built from scratch to serve the modern JavaScript ecosystem, with three major design goals:

Bun is designed as a drop-in replacement for Node.js. Use it to run your current JavaScript & TypeScript apps or scripts — on your local computer, server or on the edge. Bun natively implements hundreds of Node.js and Web APIs, including ~90% of Node-API functions (native modules), fs, path, Buffer and more.

The goal of Bun is to run most of the world's JavaScript outside of browsers, bringing performance and complexity enhancements to your future infrastructure, as well as developer productivity through better, simpler tooling.

Batteries included

How does Bun work?

Bun uses the JavaScriptCore engine, which tends to start and perform a little faster than more traditional choices like V8. Bun is written in Zig, a low-level programming language with manual memory management.

Most of Bun is written from scratch including the JSX/TypeScript transpiler, npm client, bundler, SQLite client, HTTP client, WebSocket client and more.

Why is Bun fast?

An enormous amount of time spent profiling, benchmarking and optimizing things. The answer is different for every part of Bun, but one general theme: Zig's low-level control over memory and lack of hidden control flow makes it much simpler to write fast software. Sponsor the Zig Software Foundation.

Getting started

To install Bun, run this install script in your terminal. It downloads Bun from GitHub.

curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

Bun's HTTP server is built on web standards like Request and Response

// http.js
export default {
  port: 3000,
  fetch(request) {
    return new Response("Welcome to Bun!");
  },
};

Run it with Bun:

bun run http.js

Then open http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

See more examples and check out the docs. If you have any questions or want help, join Bun's Discord.

Bun CLI

bun run

The same command for running JavaScript & TypeScript files with Bun's JavaScript runtime also runs package.json "scripts". Bun runs package.json scripts 30x faster than npm run.

Replace npm run with bun run and save 160ms on every run.

bun install

bun install is an npm-compatible package manager. You probably will be surprised by how much faster copying files can get. Bun uses the fastest system calls available to copy files.

Replace yarn with bun install and get 20x faster package installs.

bunx <command>

Auto-install and run an executable from a local or remote npm package.

Replace npx with bunx and get 100x faster startup times for local packages.

bun test

A Jest-like test runner for JavaScript & TypeScript projects built-in to Bun. You've never seen a JavaScript test runner this fast (or incomplete).

What is the license?

MIT License, excluding dependencies which have various licenses.

How do I see the source code?

Bun is on GitHub.