Build an app with SvelteKit and Bun

Creating a project

Use bun create to scaffold your app with the svelte package. Answer the prompts to select a template and set up your development environment.

# create a new project in my-app
bun create svelte@latest my-app

# Once the project is initialized, cd into the new project and install dependencies.
cd my-app
bun install

Developing

Then start the development server with bun --bun run dev. To run the dev server with Node.js instead of Bun, you can omit the --bun flag.

bun --bun run dev

# or start the server and open the app in a new browser tab
npm run dev -- --open

Visit http://localhost:5173 in a browser to see the template app.

Building

To build for production, you'll need to add the right SvelteKit adapter. Currently we recommend the:

bun add -D svelte-adapter-bun

Now, make the following changes to your svelte.config.js

- import adapter from "@sveltejs/adapter-auto";
+ import adapter from "svelte-adapter-bun";
import { vitePreprocess } from "@sveltejs/kit/vite";

/** @type {import('@sveltejs/kit').Config} */
const config = {
  kit: {
    adapter: adapter(),
  },
  preprocess: vitePreprocess(),
};

export default config;

To build a production bundle with bun run build:

Run npm run preview to preview your production build locally.

Start server with: bun ./build/index.js