Railway•14mo ago

Best way to use bun for a js service?

Keeping the binary in git tracking seems janky...

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Percy•14mo ago

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Brody•14mo ago

bun is detected when there is a bun lock file, if you have any other types of lock files node will be used

Alright, I'm realising the bun.lockb is a lockfile for dependencies A little disorienting that it's not human readable, which made me think it was the binary itself

Brody•14mo ago

indeed guess it just makes it faster for bun to read

BenIsensteinOP•14mo ago

Still including nodejs in the build step..

BenIsensteinOP•14mo ago

BenIsensteinOP•14mo ago

it is using bun, but why include node?

Brody•14mo ago

there's still lots of deps that need node present even when using bun so it's a safe assumption to include it though it's odd that node came before bun, have you done any kind of nixpacks.toml stuff?

BenIsensteinOP•14mo ago

Here's my railway.json:

{
    "$schema": "https://railway.app/railway.schema.json",
    "build": {
        "watchPatterns": ["**/*.ts","**/*.js","**/*.json"],
        "nixpacksPlan": {
            "phases": {
                "setup": {
                    "nixPkgs": ["...","python38","gnumake","gcc"]
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "deploy": {
        "healthcheckPath": "/health",
        "healthcheckTimeout": 10
    }
}

{
    "$schema": "https://railway.app/railway.schema.json",
    "build": {
        "watchPatterns": ["**/*.ts","**/*.js","**/*.json"],
        "nixpacksPlan": {
            "phases": {
                "setup": {
                    "nixPkgs": ["...","python38","gnumake","gcc"]
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "deploy": {
        "healthcheckPath": "/health",
        "healthcheckTimeout": 10
    }
}

Brody•14mo ago

okay looks fine so does it work now that you have the bun lock file?

Dayblox•14mo ago

You can install the bun VSCode extension in order to visualize the lockfile

BenIsensteinOP•14mo ago

Yeah it works THanks!

Brody•14mo ago

no problem!

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