No-Build JS/TS Template

A minimal web setup with JavaScript and TypeScript and no bundler, no build step and — as of Bun 1.4 — no dependencies either. The server is TypeScript, run directly by Bun. Static assets are served as standard ES modules.

The whole server is a handful of lines: Bun 1.4's dir: route serves public/ with a directory index, correct content types, ETags with 304 replies and Range requests, which is everything express.static was here for. That replaced express, tsx, ts-node, nodemon and @types/express — six dependencies down to two, which is what finally makes the name true.

Getting Started

1. Install dependencies

   bun install

2. Start the development server

   bun start

3. Visit http://localhost:3000 to see the demo page.

PORT overrides the port.

Scripts

• bun start — run the server.
• bun run dev — the same, with bun --hot reloading on change.
• bun run check — type-check the project without emitting files.
• bun run audit — fail on a dependency with a high or critical advisory.

Requirements

Bun 1.4 or newer: the dir: static route the server is built on landed in 1.4.

License

MIT