Using Bun for bundling web apps
While Deno seems quite different from Node.js on first glance, it also offers a lot of similarities. After all, both runtimes use V8 and can work with ESMs, but what if you want to be even more compatible with Node.js? Another approach is to be Node.js-compatible without using libuv or V8 at all. Enter Bun.
Bun is an alternative to Node.js that follows the approach of Deno in terms of developer friendliness. Here, tooling such as a npm client or an application bundler is also included out of the box. However, to speed things up significantly, Bun does not use libuv and V8. Instead, Bun is created using the programming language Zig and uses JavaScriptCore as its JavaScript runtime. JavaScriptCore is also the runtime behind the Webkit browser engine, empowering browsers such as Safari.
The main benefits of Bun are as follows:
- It comes with useful utilities out of the box, such as a bundler, a transpiler, a package manager, and a task runner...
