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Run Bun on Windows

Bun has been on every news aggregator and newsletter related to tech the past week due to its speed compared to create-react-app . I've tried to run it on Windows, but seems it is not supported yet. Does anyone know if they can run it on Windows?

Solution

  • According to the Installation docs:

    Bun provides a limited, experimental native build for Windows. At the moment, only the Bun runtime is supported.

    • bun <file>
    • bun run <file>

    The test runner, package manager, and bundler are still under development. The following commands have been disabled.

    • bun test
    • bun install/add/remove
    • bun link/unlink
    • bun build

    Alternatively if you need those commands or an older version of Bun, you can use Windows Subsystem Linux:

    wsl --install
wsl curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
wsl bun