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Bun: Setup 2.2. Setup an existing project Source evidence: /Sources/honojs hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: https://hono.dev/llms full.txt 2 2 setup an...
Bun: Setup > 2.2. Setup an existing project
Source evidence: /Sources/honojs__hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: https://hono.dev/llms-full.txt#2-2-setup-an-existing-project
Summary
On an existing Bun project, we only need to install hono dependencies on the project root directory via sh bun add hono Then add the dev command to your existing package.json. ```json { "scripts": { "dev": "bun run --hot src...
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On an existing Bun project, we only need to install hono dependencies on the project root directory via
bun add hono
Then add the dev command to your existing package.json.
{
"scripts": {
"dev": "bun run --hot src/index.ts"
}
}
See the Bun starter template for a minimal example setup. This is the output of running bun create hono@latest.
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