I just spent a couple hours migrating my knife sharpening website backend from Bun to Node. Feels good to avoid that lock-in. I was initially gung-ho for Bun but increasingly unsure about it. Things I'll miss for sure:
- Querying sqlite with tagged template literals
- Bun.password.verify being argon2 is a better default
- HTML imports
- JSX transpilation
- Auto loading .env file
https://burlyburr.com, which hits https://backend.burlyburr.com
Node supports Querying sqlite with tagged template literals.
https://nodejs.org/api/sqlite.html#databasecreatetagstoremax...
Why not just write a small helper library to add back the features you miss? Node includes SQLite and Argon2 at least, if the issue is the interface then that is easily fixed.
Claude did write me a simple wrapper so I can keep using tagged template literals in the same way with Node.
Node supports auto loading .env and also supports sqlite
Sure, but at least on Node 22 I think I have to pass `--env-file=.env` option to make it pick up .env.
Certainly true but there’s a line between “better DX” and… well, kinda laziness
Yeah I don't want it to silently read magic config files
There is also 1 line to load .env in node without passing an argument