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Bun or Node.js in 2024?

Vedansh Sharma on April 03, 2024

Hey there, fellow developers! πŸ–₯️ Well, when it comes to web development, YOU'RE RIGHT! There are just so many tools! But the most popular option ...
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Senthilbalajiganesan • Edited

Hey, thank you for the fantastic article. I appreciate the insights shared.

I'd like to share my experience with Bun. While it's incredibly fast and has great features for real-world applications, I encountered several unfixed bugs when using it with sqlite3.

Some of these bugs that were working in previous versions. I believe it's best to use Bun for minimal scripts due to easier debugging and fixing.

As the ecosystem matures, using Bun over node.js makes more sense to me.

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Vedansh Sharma

Ohh! Well yeah I think bun is relatively very new and needs much improvement that is why organisations still use node.

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Chris Robison

If performance were really the most important metric, JavaScript would not even be considered. Bun is an experimental runtime written in an experimental language. I think it is too bleeding edge for production right now.

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Vedansh Sharma

That’s an interesting point because before bun even started the performance metric I don’t think people even talked about it as there wasn’t much to compare with.

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Mike Talbot ⭐

At the time Node was created, there was a lot of talk about performance - but this was down to the fact that most other server architectures were doing thread-based serving - effectively synchronous serving but on a thread. Turns out that the async / event loop approach was way more scalable for traffic that wasn't doing heavy calculations. These days you have the same principle in lots of other architectures and so those turn out to be more performant than JS in some circumstances.

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Steeve

Bun looks promising, but Node provides performances that most people don't even reach. Take a look at Restana handling 79000 req/s:
github.com/BackendStack21/restana

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Vedansh Sharma

Exactly Bun aims more towards simplicity and speed but Node is like the superpower with strength and capabilities.

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Rohit

it is very interesting but i think node is better because i never used bun ....if you used then can you tell what is it

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Vedansh Sharma

I believe it all comes down to your requirements but yeah Nodejs is like evergreen.

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Rohit

yes node is very exited ...if you know then can you tell about Bun

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Vedansh Sharma

I would suggest you to go through the Bun’s official platform to get a better idea as it is kind of difficult to share everything over here.

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Rohit

Ok.. thanks for supporting β™₯️

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Vedansh Sharma

Anytime.

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Cheikhnouha

interesting read

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Vedansh Sharma

Thank you! Glad to hear it.

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Alain D'Ettorre

Bun seems fast, but Node.js is king in any other relevant metric. It's far more likely that Node.js will evolve and get faster instead of Bun getting traction. At least for me.

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Vedansh Sharma

Yes absolutely!

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Dotennin

If Bun can slove the pain points of Node, rather than just the performance, I'm sure it'll slowly get a higher share. on the contracry, nodejs is not really more of a performance issue right (web development)?. I think that more performance-orientaed scenarios will not consider nodejs.

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Vedansh Sharma

Absolutely! Good point

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Joe

Just be careful, Bun isn't yet ready in all aspects. For example, all crypto functions (such as hashing, AES, etc) is around 10x slower than Node.js at the moment.

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Vedansh Sharma

Yes absolutely that is why I referred it as a new child.

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Ezekiel

Node

Choosing the one that stood the test of time

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Vedansh Sharma

Great Choice! My own preference πŸ˜…

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Rayyan Nafees

Bruh.. Your bun code is wrong.. it doesnt even run

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Vedansh Sharma

Thanks for pointing it out, but I believe this typescript error might get resolved if you run it from your shell.

Although this has been highlighted on Bun’s QuickStart guide.

Please try this code:
const server = Bun.serve({
port: 3000,
fetch(req) {
return new Response("Bun!");
},
});

console.log(Listening on http://localhost:${server.port} ...);

Hope this works for you.

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Rayyan Nafees

bun version 1.1.1

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Vedansh Sharma

I have shared another code, please try it and let me know if you still face some errors, please share it with me and I would also like you to go through the QuickStart guide on official website.

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Eric

Larger scale projects can still benefit from Bun locally or in continuous integration pipelines. Running tests faster and better local package management save time in the development life cycle.

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Vedansh Sharma

Yes absolutely, but bun is also new and lacks in few things although the newer version sounds much more promising.

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PaweΕ‚ Ciosek

Great post! πŸ‘ keep it up! πŸ™

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Vedansh Sharma

Thank you so much!

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Krushn Dayshmookh

Clickbait article.

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Vedansh Sharma

Value your opinion!

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Viney Rawat

I'm using bun in development and it's fantastic saves a lot of time

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Rense Bakker

What about Hono, which can be used in both nodejs and bun runtimes?

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Vedansh Sharma

As far as I have heard it works better with bun but haven’t really tried it so can’t say for sure.

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Asmeet Singh

πŸ‘πŸΌ

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Vedansh Sharma

Thank you!

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richard

Switched to Bun recently - the performance is incredible.

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Vedansh Sharma

Yes it’s really fast.

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Ricardo Esteves

Nice article, thanks for sharing it!

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Vedansh Sharma

Glad to hear!

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Md Kawsar Islam Yeasin

I've been using Bun for the last few days and it's really fast.
I tested both of them and bun is faster then node or Deno.

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Vedansh Sharma

Yes! Bun is faster but it is not yet designed to build large scale complex applications unlike node.

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Alex

I’ve played with Bun before and it looks really promising. Thanks for the post!

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Madhu Saini

nice article!!
Thanks for sharing

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Vedansh Sharma

Glad to hear!

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Shruti Gupta

Interesting!

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Vedansh Sharma

Thank you!

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Frank

Unfortunately, Bun in not supported on a lot of cloud and PaaS providers. It's a bit of a catch22, but once more cloud providers support Bun then I could see it getting more wide use adoption.

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NotFound404

simple solution: run on both.

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Vedansh Sharma

Great πŸ˜‚

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Eduardo Casanova

Id wait till serious companies with serious money start using it :)

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Vedansh Sharma

But don’t you think then again the situation of too much competition will be created and might lack behind if we start learning it late like happening with MERN stack.

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Anusha Raghav

This is such an interesting read!! Waiting for more such reads keep it up!!

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Vedansh Sharma

Thank you so much!!!!

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Andrei Shen

Hi, thank you for the great article.

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Vedansh Sharma

Glad to hear!

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raddevus • Edited

It's YAJF! Yet Another JavaScript Framework

Why should you use it?

Because it's 10 minutes newer than the previous YAJF. πŸ€“

Who Will Use It?

New-new-devs who don't know about (or haven't tried) previous YAJFs.
They'll tout it as the greatest thing ever -- because they don't know about previous things ever.
πŸ€“
Am I funny yet? 😁

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FateRiddle

I don't get it... this is a day 1 comparison article in, ... 2024?

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Vedansh Sharma

No sir, this actually is a comparison of what you can choose in 2024, based on data till the date this article was published, if that was your doubt.

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Andy Jessop

This article is littered with errors, not least of which is this:

this modern, lightweight framework built on Node.js

It is not built on Node, it's built from scratch with Zig.

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