| Bun 1.2 Adds Postgres Client |
| Written by Ian Elliot | |||
| Thursday, 30 January 2025 | |||
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Bun 1.2 has been released with improvements including progress towards Node.js compatibility, a built-in S3 object storage API and a built-in Postgres client. Bun is a modern JavaScript runtime targeted at similar uses to Node or Deno. The developers describe it as a fast, all-in-one toolkit for running, building, testing, and debugging JavaScript and TypeScript, from a single file to a full-stack application.
Alongside the new features, this release also has performance improvements. The Node.js compatibility improvements are important as Bun is designed as a drop-in replacement for Node.js. The Bun team says a number of Node.js modules now pass over 90% of their tests with Bun. This release sees a change to how the team test and improve Bun's compatibility with Node.js. Until now, the priority was to fix Node.js bugs as they were reported. However, the developers found this discouraged them from doing the large refactors necessary for 100% Node.js compatibility. They are now moving to be able to run the entire Node.js test suite, and have ported thousands of files from the Node.js test suite to Bun. For every commit they make to Bun, they run the Node.js test suite to ensure compatibility, and say they'll have "more progress on Node.js compatibility very soon". A second major improvement is built-in support for S3, which is used for object storage in the cloud. The new support can be used to read, write, and delete files from an S3 bucket using APIs that are compatible with Web standards like Blob. The new version also adds a built-in SQL client with Postgres support. Bun has always had a built-in SQLite client, but the new client expands this to Postgres. The team says they'll also have a pull request to add MySQL support very soon. The client is written in native code with optimizations including automatic prepared statements, query pipelining, connection pooling and structure caching. Other improvements have been made to Bun's package manager and to support C++ addons using V8 APIs. Bun 1.2 is available now.
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