Let's give bun a try

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Bun is a fast all-in-one JavaScript and TypeScript runtime and toolkit. docs

With the newly released Bun v1.3, I thought it would be good to try it out, and I like it. Here's why:

Not only is it significantly faster than other tools, it simplifies things a lot. It basically replaces:

• the runtime (node), it is mostly a drop-in replacement
• package manager (npm/yarn), and tools to check for updates like npm check or taze
  • and it has an option to avoid installing anything too new - mitigating JavaScript supply-chain attacks.
• bundler (esbuild/rollup/vite/parcel)
• test runner (jest/node:test/vitest)
• supports TypeScript natively, so we don't need tools like ts-node or a slow tsc transpilation step.
• supports monorepos
• builtin http server (not used in this project, but I use this elsewhere)
• also has an enormous amount of other builtins, so a good opportunity to drop dependencies like
  • c8 for code coverage
  • shx for cross-platform shell commands
  • npm-run-all (this one is not really maintained anymore, I switched to npm-run-all2)