Bun
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager – all in one.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- JavaScript
- Typescript
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Command line interface
- Runtime Environment
- Fast speed
- Support for Typescript
- Asynchronous
- Package Manager
Tags
- Javascript Development
- Javascript
- javascript-runtime
- bundler
- runtime
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Recent News
- POX published news article about Bun
Anthropic acquires Bun to accelerate its development and integration into Claude CodeAnthropic has announced its acquisition of Bun, an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript, TypeScript, a...
- POX published news article about Bun
Bun 1.3 adds full‑stack dev server, built-in MySQL & Redis clients, better routing & moreBun 1.3 introduces first-class support for frontend development, providing modern features expected...
- Maoholguin published news article about Bun
Bun 1.2 released with better Node.js compatibility, S3 API & SQL client boost performanceBun 1.2 introduces significant updates to improve Node.js compatibility, performance, and developer...
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What is Bun?
Bun is a modern JavaScript runtime like Node or Deno.
It was built from scratch to focus on three main things:
- Start fast (it has the edge in mind).
- New levels of performance (extending JavaScriptCore, the engine).
- Being a great and complete tool (bundler, transpiler, package manager).
Bun is designed as a drop-in replacement for 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.
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Bun has a high performance, compiled nature, and integrated package manager, which could address some of the pain points experienced with other environments like Node.js.
The integrated support for standards like ENV, SQL formats (SQLite, Postgres, etc) and other basics directly implemented into the core system makes Bun rather attractive.