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Ashirbad Panigrahi
Ashirbad Panigrahi

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Let's create a next.js app with bun

#bunjs #nextjs #react #javascript

Thank you for all the support you shown in react post, let's see how we can create a next.js app with bun

Install bun

First run the following command to check bun is installed or not

bun -v
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If you don't have bun installed then run the following command to install bun

curl https://bun.sh/install | bash
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Create a next app

Now run the following command to create a next app

bun create next [your-app-name]
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It will create a new directory with the name of your app. To start the app run the following command

cd your-app-name
bun dev
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Build production bundle for next app

We have to update next.js version before we build our next app

bun a next@latest
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Here we update to the latest version of next for avoiding any kind of build issue

Adding scripts to your package.json

We can add the following scripts to our package.json file

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "next start",
    "build": "next build"
  }
}
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And we can run the following command to build the production bundle

bun run build
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To run the production build you can fire following command

bun start
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Get Full Source Code In GitHub

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Zeeshan Safdar •

Thanks for sharing man👍

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Ashirbad Panigrahi •

Happy to share it with you

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Foxy4096 •

Thanks for sharing this!

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Ashirbad Panigrahi •

You are welcome

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Full Stack Spiderman •

but looks like the testing with vitest does not work with bun setup..

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Hamish •

Next you should do a tutorial on how to read getting started docs

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