bun.js not working until running of subsequent scripts

after installing the bun framework I'm prompted to run the following two commands.

Manually add the directory to your $HOME/.zshrc (or similar)

   export BUN_INSTALL="/Users/foo/.bun"
   export PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"

after I run these in my terminal bun is working. If I am to close my terminal, reopen and run bun --help I see zsh: command not found: bun

until I run the two following commands from above again. How can I resolve this to not have to repeat those commands?

Solution

If you running those export statements from your current shell / cli than those are available only in the current shell environment. It's not available in any other shell you launch.

You need to put them in your ~/.zshrc so they are exported in every shell environment you launch. Or you can just put them in your ~/.profile ( or ~/.zprofile , whichever you are using) and do source ~/.[z]profile and it would be available in every subsequent shell you launch.