Ameya Shenoy
← All writing
notes

Working with Pi in a Bun environment

  • Create a shim for Bun and place it in $HOME/.local/bin/bun-as-npm

Sidenote: make sure $HOME/.local/bin is in your path

#!/usr/bin/env sh


case "$1" in
  install)
    shift
    # Translate "install -g <pkg>" → "add -g <pkg>"
    if [ "$1" = "-g" ] && [ -n "$2" ]; then
      shift
      exec bun add -g "$@"
    fi
    exec bun install "$@"
    ;;
  add)     shift; exec bun add "$@" ;;
  root)
    if [ "$2" = "-g" ]; then
      echo "${BUN_INSTALL:-$HOME/.bun}/install/global/node_modules"
      exit 0
    fi
    exit 1
    ;;
  view)    shift; exec bun info "$@" ;;
  uninstall|remove) shift; exec bun remove "$@" ;;
  *) exec bun "$@" ;;
esac
  • Make the script executable
Terminal window
chmod +x "$HOME/.local/bin/bun-as-npm"
  • Edit pi’s settings.json file to configure the bun shim as the npm replacement
{
  "npmCommand": ["bun-as-npm"]
}

Done! You can now use pi in an environment having bun and not npm