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RAXXO Studios 10 min read

Bun vs Node for Solo Developers Six Months In

Moved 4 scripts to Bun, kept 6 on Node after six months of real use Bun startup is 4x faster, which matters for scripts I run 200 times a day Native deps and FFI broke twice, so cron jobs stayed...

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Replacing Webpack DevServer With Bun Hot Reload: 14 Lines, 3.2x Faster

Webpack DevServer ate 250MB and took 4.1s to start 14 lines of Bun replaced it with WebSocket HMR Cold start dropped from 4.1s to 1.3s,...

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RAXXO Studios 8 min

Bun Shell Replaced Every Bash Script in My Studio

I deleted 1,400 lines of bash and 23 scripts, replaced by 600 lines of Bun Shell TypeScript Bun Shell ($`...`) gives typed args, automatic escaping,...

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Bun's Test Runner Replaced Vitest in My New Projects

Bun's built-in test runner runs 5-15x faster than Vitest, ships zero-config snapshots and coverage. Migration in 30 minutes, where Vitest still wins.

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Bun 1.2 Replaced Node in Every New RAXXO Project

Why Bun 1.2 became the default runtime for 17 RAXXO projects: 3s installs, 9 fewer devDependencies, tests 8x faster. When I still reach for Node.

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