Build a frontend using Vite and Bun

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

Vite works with Bun with no extra configuration. Get started with one of Vite’s templates.

terminal

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.

terminal

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.

terminal

bunx --bun vite

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

package.json

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

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

terminal

bun run dev

Build your app for production.

terminal

bunx --bun vite build

For more information, see the Vite documentation.