bun.sh/docs/guides/ecosystem/solidstart.md

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Build an app with SolidStart and Bun

{% callout %} SolidStart currently relies on Node.js APIs that Bun does not yet implement. The guide below uses Bun to initialize a project and install dependencies, but it uses Node.js to run the dev server. {% /callout %}

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Initialize a SolidStart app with create-solid.

$ bun create solid my-app
create-solid version 0.2.31

Welcome to the SolidStart setup wizard!

There are definitely bugs and some feature might not work yet.
If you encounter an issue, have a look at
https://github.com/solidjs/solid-start/issues and open a new one,
if it is not already tracked.

✔ Which template do you want to use? › todomvc
✔ Server Side Rendering? … yes
✔ Use TypeScript? … yes
cloned solidjs/solid-start#main to /path/to/my-app/.solid-start
✔ Copied project files

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As instructed by the create-solid CLI, let's install our dependencies.

$ cd my-app
$ bun install

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Then run the development server.

$ bun run dev
# or, equivalently
$ bunx solid-start dev

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Open localhost:3000. Any changes you make to src/routes/index.tsx will be hot-reloaded automatically.

{% image src="https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/assets/3084745/1e8043c4-49d1-498c-9add-c1eaab6c7167" alt="SolidStart demo app" /%}

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Refer to the SolidStart website for complete framework documentation.