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Bun's TypeScript Support in 2026: What Works, What Still Needs tsc

DEV Community·Gabriel Anhaia·25 days ago
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Book: TypeScript in Production — Tooling, Build, and Library Authoring Across Runtimes Also by me: The TypeScript Library — the 5-book collection My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub You've seen it. A project switches its dev loop from `tsc-watch node --loader to a single bun run src/index.ts . The cold start drops from three seconds to two hundred milliseconds. Hot edits feel weightless. The team ships the change, deletes the watcher, and moves on. A week later a PR lands that introduces a real type error. A Promise gets returned where the caller expects User . CI is green. The runtime is happy. The bug ships. Production gets a .then is not a function (or worse, a silent undefined`) ten minutes after deploy. Teams misread what Bun actually does with their TypeScript. Bun runs .ts and .tsx files without a build step. That is true.…

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