Dear JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention. No, this is not another rant about npm's security issues. Abstraction is the cornerstone of modern software engineering. Reusing logic and building higher-level solutions from lower-level building blocks is what makes all the technological wonders around us possible. Imagine if every time anyone wrote a calculator they also had to reinvent floating-point arithmetic and string encoding!
Bun, the fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime, has released version 1.3, marking its biggest release yet with comprehensive full-stack development capabilities, unified database APIs, and performance improvements across the runtime. Bun 1.3 introduces zero-configuration frontend development with built-in hot module replacement and React Fast Refresh support. Developers can now run HTML files directly with Bun, which automatically handles JavaScript, CSS, and React transpilation and bundling.
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