Impact Score: 5/10
Bun v0.0.36
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Bun bun-v0.0.36. Source highlight: `bun create` is a new subcommand that lets you quickly create a project from a template.
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โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Set `self` to `globalThis` in Bun.js. This improves compatibility with some npm packages
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## bun create
`bun create` is a new subcommand that lets you quickly create a project from a template.

To create a new React project (based on Create React App)
```bash
bun create react ./app
```
#### 11x faster than `yarn create react app` on my Macbook Pro (both installing dependencies via yarn)
<img width="1614" alt="CleanShot 2021-10-15 at 23 37 07@2x" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/709451/137576706-7d2a2bcd-695c-4a24-80c0-2c7464d2a4b7.png">
To create a new Next.js project (based on Create Next App)
```bash
bun create next ./app
```
To create from a GitHub repository:
```bash
bun create jarred-sumner/calculator calc
```
To see a list of templates:
```bash
bun create
```
Right now, there are only two "official" templates (and they're mostly empty) โ but you can add more. `bun create` fetches from packages published in the `examples` folder of Bun's GitHub repo. PRs are very welcome!
<img width="788" alt="CleanShot 2021-10-15 at 23 45 49@2x" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/709451/137576930-793bf67c-39eb-404e-a3cf-0a81b9554aa0.png">
### Local templates
Many developers have boilerplate code copied for new projects.
That's why `bun create` also searches `$HOME/.bun-create` for local templates.
Add a folder with a package.json in `$HOME/.bun-create/my-local-template` and then you can run:
```bash
bun create my-local-template ./foo
```
This copies the contents of `my-local-template`, initializes a git repository, runs any preinstall steps, installs dependencies (if any exist), runs any postinstall steps and rewrites the `name` field in `package.json` to `foo`.
It uses the fastest system calls available for copying files. **`bun create` copies files faster than `cp`. Here is a stupid microbenchmark**
<img width="1273" alt="CleanShot 2021-10-17 at 05 00 12@2x" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/709451/137626341-200263ce-c093-431b-8c4e-e7e4e1e7663f.png">
### Performance
The slowest part is running your NPM client to install `node_modules`. The second slowest part is downloading the tarball from GitHub (or NPM if it's from Bun's examples folder). Third is git.
## Other stuff
- `fetch` now supports gzip
- https support in `fetch` was completely rewritten to be more reliable. TLS is now powered by [s2n-tls](https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls)
- `fetch` now supports `Transfer-Encoding: chunked`. It didn't before, which was embarrassing.
- Set `self` to `globalThis` in Bun.js. This improves compatibility with some npm packages
- There are two new test binaries in `misctools/`, `tgz` and `fetch`. `tgz` is like `gunzip` except harder to use and `fetch` is sort of like `curl`? These are really just to help me test some things in isolation from the rest of Bun