Bun support

[KyleSanderson]

Hi there,

I have no relation to the bun team at all (and, am a bit daft on web stuff). I'm looking to change to bun from pnpm for performance reasons, but there's no way to do this through the corepack system today (which has been very kind to me, for what it's worth).

It would be very nice if I could use the corepack mechanism to change to bun, similar to how (p)npm are implemented today from yarn.

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun
https://bun.sh/

It looks like they have a 1.0 mark coming on September 7th 2023.

[ljharb]

bun is a replacement runtime for node, it's not a standalone package manager.

[KyleSanderson]

bun is a replacement runtime for node, it's not a standalone package manager.

I'm under the impression it is a package manager per https://bun.sh/docs/cli/install

I understand it may compete in areas, but the once corepack installs it, it (bun) runs the same way for a project that pnpm does.

[ljharb]

it contains one, but there's no standalone "bun package manager" - it can't run inside node, so to use it you'd have to install the entirety of bun.

[KyleSanderson]

it contains one, but there's no standalone "bun package manager" - it can't run inside node, so to use it you'd have to install the entirety of bun.

I think it's just a single statically linked binary, no? I think what I'm looking for is for corepack to install the binary for me (similar to (p)npm) and that's it.

EDIT: I just read their docs, looks like it's installable through npm as well: npm install -g bun

[uncenter]

Any update on this? 1.0 just came out the other day.

[azu]

For reference, the meta-npm package managers (ni and ni.zsh) recognise bun as a package manager.
I think bun is an npm package manager because it has commands similar to most package managers and can handle npm packages.

Command Table

npm	yarn	yarn-berry	pnpm	bun
npm install	yarn install	yarn install	pnpm install	bun install
npm install	yarn add	yarn add	pnpm add	bun add
npm uninstall	yarn remove	yarn remove	pnpm remove	bun remove
npm run	yarn run	yarn run	pnpm run	bun run
npm run test	yarn run test	yarn run test	pnpm run test	bun run test
npm upgrade	yarn upgrade	yarn up	pnpm update	bun update
--	yarn upgrade-interactive	yarn up -i	pnpm update -i	--
npm exec	yarn <command>	yarn exec	pnpm exec	bunx
npx	--	yarn dlx	pnpm dlx	bunx

There is a desire to simply write "packageManager" : "bun@1.0.0" on package.json.

[aduh95]

For a new package manager to be added, someone needs to open a PR adding it to the config.json, optionally update the automation so the config is updated automatically when new versions are released, and make sure all the tests pass.

[TheDanielMoli]

Looking forward to this, I'll try to do it myself next month (if not out yet)

[SilverLinings89]

We are using bun in several repos and it would be awesome to be able to specify it as the packageManager (and have that actually do something :) ).