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To get started, import HTML files and pass them to the `routes` option in `Bun.serve()`.
```ts
import { sql, serve } from "bun";
import dashboard from "./dashboard.html";
import homepage from "./index.html";
const server = serve({
routes: {
// ** HTML imports **
// Bundle & route index.html to "/". This uses HTMLRewriter to scan the HTML for `<script>` and `<link>` tags, run's Bun's JavaScript & CSS bundler on them, transpiles any TypeScript, JSX, and TSX, downlevels CSS with Bun's CSS parser and serves the result.
"/": homepage,
// Bundle & route dashboard.html to "/dashboard"
"/dashboard": dashboard,
// ** API endpoints ** (Bun v1.2.3+ required)
"/api/users": {
async GET(req) {
const users = await sql`SELECT * FROM users`;
return Response.json(users);
},
async POST(req) {
const { name, email } = await req.json();
const [user] =
await sql`INSERT INTO users (name, email) VALUES (${name}, ${email})`;
return Response.json(user);
},
},
"/api/users/:id": async req => {
const { id } = req.params;
const [user] = await sql`SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ${id}`;
return Response.json(user);
},
},
// Enable development mode for:
// - Detailed error messages
// - Hot reloading (Bun v1.2.3+ required)
development: true,
// Prior to v1.2.3, the `fetch` option was used to handle all API requests. It is now optional.
// async fetch(req) {
// // Return 404 for unmatched routes
// return new Response("Not Found", { status: 404 });
// },
});
console.log(`Listening on ${server.url}`);
```
```bash
$ bun run app.ts
```
## HTML imports are routes
The web starts with HTML, and so does Bun's fullstack dev server.
To specify entrypoints to your frontend, import HTML files into your JavaScript/TypeScript/TSX/JSX files.
```ts
import dashboard from "./dashboard.html";
import homepage from "./index.html";
```
These HTML files are used as routes in Bun's dev server you can pass to `Bun.serve()`.
```ts
Bun.serve({
routes: {
"/": homepage,
"/dashboard": dashboard,
}
fetch(req) {
// ... api requests
},
});
```
When you make a request to `/dashboard` or `/`, Bun automatically bundles the `<script>` and `<link>` tags in the HTML files, exposes them as static routes, and serves the result.
An index.html file like this:
```html#index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Home</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./reset.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
<script type="module" src="./sentry-and-preloads.ts"></script>
<script type="module" src="./my-app.tsx"></script>
</body>
</html>
```
Becomes something like this:
```html#index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Home</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/index-[hash].css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
<script type="module" src="/index-[hash].js"></script>
</body>
</html>
```
### How to use with React
To use React in your client-side code, import `react-dom/client` and render your app.
{% codetabs %}
```ts#src/backend.ts
import dashboard from "../public/dashboard.html";
import { serve } from "bun";
serve({
routes: {
"/": dashboard,
},
async fetch(req) {
// ...api requests
return new Response("hello world");
},
});
```
```ts#src/frontend.tsx
import "./styles.css";
import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client";
import { App } from "./app.tsx";
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
const root = createRoot(document.getElementById("root"));
root.render(<App />);
});
```
```html#public/dashboard.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Dashboard</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
<script type="module" src="../src/frontend.tsx"></script>
</body>
</html>
```
```css#src/styles.css
body {
background-color: red;
}
```
```tsx#src/app.tsx
export function App() {
return <div>Hello World</div>;
}
```
{% /codetabs %}
### Development mode
When building locally, enable development mode by setting `development: true` in `Bun.serve()`.
```js-diff
import homepage from "./index.html";
import dashboard from "./dashboard.html";
Bun.serve({
routes: {
"/": homepage,
"/dashboard": dashboard,
}
+ development: true,
fetch(req) {
// ... api requests
},
});
```
When `development` is `true`, Bun will:
- Include the `SourceMap` header in the response so that devtools can show the original source code
- Disable minification
- Re-bundle assets on each request to a .html file
- Enable hot module reloading (unless `hmr: false` is set)
#### Echo console logs from browser to terminal
Bun.serve() supports echoing console logs from the browser to the terminal.
To enable this, pass `console: true` in the `development` object in `Bun.serve()`.
```ts
import homepage from "./index.html";
Bun.serve({
// development can also be an object.
development: {
// Enable Hot Module Reloading
hmr: true,
// Echo console logs from the browser to the terminal
console: true,
},
routes: {
"/": homepage,
},
});
```
When `console: true` is set, Bun will stream console logs from the browser to the terminal. This reuses the existing WebSocket connection from HMR to send the logs.
#### Production mode
Hot reloading and `development: true` helps you iterate quickly, but in production, your server should be as fast as possible and have as few external dependencies as possible.
##### Ahead of time bundling (recommended)
As of Bun v1.2.17, you can use `Bun.build` or `bun build` to bundle your full-stack application ahead of time.
```sh
$ bun build --target=bun --production --outdir=dist ./src/index.ts
```
When Bun's bundler sees an HTML import from server-side code, it will bundle the referenced JavaScript/TypeScript/TSX/JSX and CSS files into a manifest object that Bun.serve() can use to serve the assets.
```ts
import { serve } from "bun";
import index from "./index.html";
serve({
routes: { "/": index },
});
```
{% details summary="Internally, the `index` variable is a manifest object that looks something like this" %}
```json
{
"index": "./index.html",
"files": [
{
"input": "index.html",
"path": "./index-f2me3qnf.js",
"loader": "js",
"isEntry": true,
"headers": {
"etag": "eet6gn75",
"content-type": "text/javascript;charset=utf-8"
}
},
{
"input": "index.html",
"path": "./index.html",
"loader": "html",
"isEntry": true,
"headers": {
"etag": "r9njjakd",
"content-type": "text/html;charset=utf-8"
}
},
{
"input": "index.html",
"path": "./index-gysa5fmk.css",
"loader": "css",
"isEntry": true,
"headers": {
"etag": "50zb7x61",
"content-type": "text/css;charset=utf-8"
}
},
{
"input": "logo.svg",
"path": "./logo-kygw735p.svg",
"loader": "file",
"isEntry": false,
"headers": {
"etag": "kygw735p",
"content-type": "application/octet-stream"
}
},
{
"input": "react.svg",
"path": "./react-ck11dneg.svg",
"loader": "file",
"isEntry": false,
"headers": {
"etag": "ck11dneg",
"content-type": "application/octet-stream"
}
}
]
}
```
{% /details %}
##### Runtime bundling
When adding a build step is too complicated, you can set `development: false` in `Bun.serve()`.
- Enable in-memory caching of bundled assets. Bun will bundle assets lazily on the first request to an `.html` file, and cache the result in memory until the server restarts.
- Enables `Cache-Control` headers and `ETag` headers
- Minifies JavaScript/TypeScript/TSX/JSX files
## Plugins
Bun's [bundler plugins](https://bun.sh/docs/bundler/plugins) are also supported when bundling static routes.
To configure plugins for `Bun.serve`, add a `plugins` array in the `[serve.static]` section of your `bunfig.toml`.
### Using TailwindCSS in HTML routes
For example, enable TailwindCSS on your routes by installing and adding the `bun-plugin-tailwind` plugin:
```sh
$ bun add bun-plugin-tailwind
```
```toml#bunfig.toml
[serve.static]
plugins = ["bun-plugin-tailwind"]
```
This will allow you to use TailwindCSS utility classes in your HTML and CSS files. All you need to do is import `tailwindcss` somewhere:
```html#index.html
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Home</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="tailwindcss" />
</head>
<body>
<!-- the rest of your HTML... -->
</body>
</html>
```
Or in your CSS:
```css#style.css
"tailwindcss";
```
### Custom plugins
Any JS file or module which exports a [valid bundler plugin object](https://bun.sh/docs/bundler/plugins#usage) (essentially an object with a `name` and `setup` field) can be placed inside the `plugins` array:
```toml#bunfig.toml
[serve.static]
plugins = ["./my-plugin-implementation.ts"]
```
Bun will lazily resolve and load each plugin and use them to bundle your routes.
Note: this is currently in `bunfig.toml` to make it possible to know statically which plugins are in use when we eventually integrate this with the `bun build` CLI. These plugins work in `Bun.build()`'s JS API, but are not yet supported in the CLI.
## How this works
Bun uses [`HTMLRewriter`](/docs/api/html-rewriter) to scan for `<script>` and `<link>` tags in HTML files, uses them as entrypoints for [Bun's bundler](/docs/bundler), generates an optimized bundle for the JavaScript/TypeScript/TSX/JSX and CSS files, and serves the result.
1. **`<script>` processing**
- Transpiles TypeScript, JSX, and TSX in `<script>` tags
- Bundles imported dependencies
- Generates sourcemaps for debugging
- Minifies when `development` is not `true` in `Bun.serve()`
```html
<script type="module" src="./counter.tsx"></script>
```
2. **`<link>` processing**
- Processes CSS imports and `<link>` tags
- Concatenates CSS files
- Rewrites `url` and asset paths to include content-addressable hashes in URLs
```html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css" />
```
3. **`<img>` & asset processing**
- Links to assets are rewritten to include content-addressable hashes in URLs
- Small assets in CSS files are inlined into `data:` URLs, reducing the total number of HTTP requests sent over the wire
4. **Rewrite HTML**
- Combines all `<script>` tags into a single `<script>` tag with a content-addressable hash in the URL
- Combines all `<link>` tags into a single `<link>` tag with a content-addressable hash in the URL
- Outputs a new HTML file
5. **Serve**
- All the output files from the bundler are exposed as static routes, using the same mechanism internally as when you pass a `Response` object to [`static` in `Bun.serve()`](/docs/api/http#static-routes).
This works similarly to how [`Bun.build` processes HTML files](/docs/bundler/html).
## This is a work in progress
- This doesn't support `bun build` yet. It also will in the future.