Bootstrapping a Runtime using Bun

[chase]

Bun is great for many reasons, but one reason I decided to use it for my project is that it's entirely self-contained as a single binary.

In my hobby project awrit it installs all dependencies by using bun if node_modules doesn't exist: https://github.com/chase/awrit/blob/electron/awrit#L17-L20

If there's no runtime in the project's directory, it pulls the latest version of bun here and then kicks off an install from there:
https://github.com/chase/awrit/blob/electron/setup.sh#L10-L87

This allows users that have no experience with Node simply run my project without any install step. It's really helped a lot with adoption.

Just thought it was an interesting, although admittedly odd, use case 🙂