---
title: "How to build React applications faster with Bun"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-react-applications-faster-with-bun-p0fydksa3
source_url: https://blog.openreplay.com/how-to-build-react-apps-faster-with-bun/
type: article
source: "asayer"
published: 2023-03-07T00:45:34.788Z
updated: 2024-04-15T11:45:14.177Z
tags: ["javascript", "react", "npm", "bun"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 91
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# How to build React applications faster with Bun

**[asayer](https://daily.dev/sources/asayer)** · 4 min read · 91 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Learn how to build React applications faster using the Bun JavaScript runtime. Discover the advantages of Bun, its speed and performance, and how to install it. Explore how to set up a React application with Bun and use it as a package manager. Test the speed of creating a React app with Bun compared to create-react-app.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@kyoukhana** · 1 upvotes

> I wonder if you can use Bun with Sveltekit

**@bap\_33** · 0 upvotes

> So it will cache all the packages?

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Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#npm](https://daily.dev/tags/npm), [#bun](https://daily.dev/tags/bun)

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