Bun Build a frontend using Vite and Bun

Build a frontend using Vite and Bun

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", // [!code --]
    "dev": "bunx --bun vite", // [!code ++]
    "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.