To get started, import HTML files and pass them to the `routes` option in `Bun.serve()`. ```ts import { sql, serve } from "bun"; import dashboard from "./dashboard.html"; import homepage from "./index.html"; const server = serve({ routes: { // ** HTML imports ** // Bundle & route index.html to "/". This uses HTMLRewriter to scan the HTML for ` ``` Becomes something like this: ```html#index.html Home
``` ### How to use with React To use React in your client-side code, import `react-dom/client` and render your app. {% codetabs %} ```ts#src/backend.ts import dashboard from "../public/dashboard.html"; import { serve } from "bun"; serve({ routes: { "/": dashboard, }, async fetch(req) { // ...api requests return new Response("hello world"); }, }); ``` ```ts#src/frontend.tsx import "./styles.css"; import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client"; import { App } from "./app.tsx"; document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => { const root = createRoot(document.getElementById("root")); root.render(); }); ``` ```html#public/dashboard.html Dashboard
``` ```css#src/styles.css body { background-color: red; } ``` ```tsx#src/app.tsx export function App() { return
Hello World
; } ``` {% /codetabs %} ### Development mode When building locally, enable development mode by setting `development: true` in `Bun.serve()`. ```js-diff import homepage from "./index.html"; import dashboard from "./dashboard.html"; Bun.serve({ routes: { "/": homepage, "/dashboard": dashboard, } + development: true, fetch(req) { // ... api requests }, }); ``` When `development` is `true`, Bun will: - Include the `SourceMap` header in the response so that devtools can show the original source code - Disable minification - Re-bundle assets on each request to a .html file - Enable hot module reloading (unless `hmr: false` is set) #### Echo console logs from browser to terminal Bun.serve() supports echoing console logs from the browser to the terminal. To enable this, pass `console: true` in the `development` object in `Bun.serve()`. ```ts import homepage from "./index.html"; Bun.serve({ // development can also be an object. development: { // Enable Hot Module Reloading hmr: true, // Echo console logs from the browser to the terminal console: true, }, routes: { "/": homepage, }, }); ``` When `console: true` is set, Bun will stream console logs from the browser to the terminal. This reuses the existing WebSocket connection from HMR to send the logs. #### Production mode Hot reloading and `development: true` helps you iterate quickly, but in production, your server should be as fast as possible and have as few external dependencies as possible. ##### Ahead of time bundling (recommended) As of Bun v1.2.17, you can use `Bun.build` or `bun build` to bundle your full-stack application ahead of time. ```sh $ bun build --target=bun --production --outdir=dist ./src/index.ts ``` When Bun's bundler sees an HTML import from server-side code, it will bundle the referenced JavaScript/TypeScript/TSX/JSX and CSS files into a manifest object that Bun.serve() can use to serve the assets. ```ts import { serve } from "bun"; import index from "./index.html"; serve({ routes: { "/": index }, }); ``` {% details summary="Internally, the `index` variable is a manifest object that looks something like this" %} ```json { "index": "./index.html", "files": [ { "input": "index.html", "path": "./index-f2me3qnf.js", "loader": "js", "isEntry": true, "headers": { "etag": "eet6gn75", "content-type": "text/javascript;charset=utf-8" } }, { "input": "index.html", "path": "./index.html", "loader": "html", "isEntry": true, "headers": { "etag": "r9njjakd", "content-type": "text/html;charset=utf-8" } }, { "input": "index.html", "path": "./index-gysa5fmk.css", "loader": "css", "isEntry": true, "headers": { "etag": "50zb7x61", "content-type": "text/css;charset=utf-8" } }, { "input": "logo.svg", "path": "./logo-kygw735p.svg", "loader": "file", "isEntry": false, "headers": { "etag": "kygw735p", "content-type": "application/octet-stream" } }, { "input": "react.svg", "path": "./react-ck11dneg.svg", "loader": "file", "isEntry": false, "headers": { "etag": "ck11dneg", "content-type": "application/octet-stream" } } ] } ``` {% /details %} ##### Runtime bundling When adding a build step is too complicated, you can set `development: false` in `Bun.serve()`. - Enable in-memory caching of bundled assets. Bun will bundle assets lazily on the first request to an `.html` file, and cache the result in memory until the server restarts. - Enables `Cache-Control` headers and `ETag` headers - Minifies JavaScript/TypeScript/TSX/JSX files ## Plugins Bun's [bundler plugins](https://bun.com/docs/bundler/plugins) are also supported when bundling static routes. To configure plugins for `Bun.serve`, add a `plugins` array in the `[serve.static]` section of your `bunfig.toml`. ### Using TailwindCSS in HTML routes For example, enable TailwindCSS on your routes by installing and adding the `bun-plugin-tailwind` plugin: ```sh $ bun add bun-plugin-tailwind ``` ```toml#bunfig.toml [serve.static] plugins = ["bun-plugin-tailwind"] ``` This will allow you to use TailwindCSS utility classes in your HTML and CSS files. All you need to do is import `tailwindcss` somewhere: ```html#index.html Home ``` Or in your CSS: ```css#style.css @import "tailwindcss"; ``` ### Custom plugins Any JS file or module which exports a [valid bundler plugin object](https://bun.com/docs/bundler/plugins#usage) (essentially an object with a `name` and `setup` field) can be placed inside the `plugins` array: ```toml#bunfig.toml [serve.static] plugins = ["./my-plugin-implementation.ts"] ``` Bun will lazily resolve and load each plugin and use them to bundle your routes. Note: this is currently in `bunfig.toml` to make it possible to know statically which plugins are in use when we eventually integrate this with the `bun build` CLI. These plugins work in `Bun.build()`'s JS API, but are not yet supported in the CLI. ## How this works Bun uses [`HTMLRewriter`](/docs/api/html-rewriter) to scan for ` ``` 2. **`` processing** - Processes CSS imports and `` tags - Concatenates CSS files - Rewrites `url` and asset paths to include content-addressable hashes in URLs ```html ``` 3. **`` & asset processing** - Links to assets are rewritten to include content-addressable hashes in URLs - Small assets in CSS files are inlined into `data:` URLs, reducing the total number of HTTP requests sent over the wire 4. **Rewrite HTML** - Combines all `