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Build a frontend using Vite and Bun

{% callout %} You can use Vite with Bun, but many projects get faster builds & drop hundreds of dependencies by switching to HTML imports. {% /callout %}


Vite works out of the box with Bun. Get started with one of Vite's templates.

$ bun create vite my-app
✔ Select a framework:  React
✔ Select a variant:  TypeScript + SWC
Scaffolding project in /path/to/my-app...

Then cd into the project directory and install dependencies.

cd my-app
bun install

Start the development server with the vite CLI using bunx.

The --bun flag tells Bun to run Vite's CLI using bun instead of node; by default Bun respects Vite's #!/usr/bin/env node shebang line.

bunx --bun vite

To simplify this command, update the "dev" script in package.json to the following.

  "scripts": {
-   "dev": "vite",
+   "dev": "bunx --bun vite",
    "build": "vite build",
    "serve": "vite preview"
  },
  // ...

Now you can start the development server with bun run dev.

bun run dev

The following command will build your app for production.

$ bunx --bun vite build

This is a stripped down guide to get you started with Vite + Bun. For more information, see the Vite documentation.