---
title: "Bun APIs"
description: "Overview of Bun's native APIs available on the Bun global object and built-in modules"
mode: center
---

Bun implements a set of native APIs on the `Bun` global object and through several built-in modules. These APIs are heavily optimized and are the canonical "Bun-native" way to implement common functionality.

Bun strives to implement standard Web APIs wherever possible. Bun introduces new APIs primarily for server-side tasks where no standard exists, such as file I/O and starting an HTTP server. In these cases, Bun's approach still builds atop standard APIs like `Blob`, `URL`, and `Request`.

```ts server.ts icon="/icons/typescript.svg"
Bun.serve({
  fetch(req: Request) {
    return new Response("Success!");
  },
});
```

Use the links in the table to jump to the associated documentation.

| Topic                            | APIs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| -------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| HTTP Server                      | [`Bun.serve`](/runtime/http/server)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Shell                            | [`$`](/runtime/shell)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Bundler                          | [`Bun.build`](/bundler)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| File I/O                         | [`Bun.file`](/runtime/file-io#reading-files-bun-file), [`Bun.write`](/runtime/file-io#writing-files-bun-write), `Bun.stdin`, `Bun.stdout`, `Bun.stderr`                                                                                                                                                                |
| Child Processes                  | [`Bun.spawn`](/runtime/child-process#spawn-a-process-bun-spawn), [`Bun.spawnSync`](/runtime/child-process#blocking-api-bun-spawnsync)                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| TCP Sockets                      | [`Bun.listen`](/runtime/networking/tcp#start-a-server-bun-listen), [`Bun.connect`](/runtime/networking/tcp#start-a-server-bun-listen)                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| UDP Sockets                      | [`Bun.udpSocket`](/runtime/networking/udp)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| WebSockets                       | `new WebSocket()` (client), [`Bun.serve`](/runtime/http/websockets) (server)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| Transpiler                       | [`Bun.Transpiler`](/runtime/transpiler)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Routing                          | [`Bun.FileSystemRouter`](/runtime/file-system-router)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Streaming HTML                   | [`HTMLRewriter`](/runtime/html-rewriter)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Headless Browser                 | [`Bun.WebView`](/runtime/webview)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Hashing                          | [`Bun.password`](/runtime/hashing#bun-password), [`Bun.hash`](/runtime/hashing#bun-hash), [`Bun.CryptoHasher`](/runtime/hashing#bun-cryptohasher), `Bun.sha`                                                                                                                                                           |
| CSRF Protection                  | [`Bun.CSRF.generate`](/runtime/csrf), [`Bun.CSRF.verify`](/runtime/csrf)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| SQLite                           | [`bun:sqlite`](/runtime/sqlite)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| SQL Client                       | [`Bun.SQL`](/runtime/sql), `Bun.sql`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Redis (Valkey) Client            | [`Bun.RedisClient`](/runtime/redis), `Bun.redis`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| FFI (Foreign Function Interface) | [`bun:ffi`](/runtime/ffi)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| DNS                              | [`Bun.dns.lookup`](/runtime/networking/dns), `Bun.dns.prefetch`, `Bun.dns.getCacheStats`                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Testing                          | [`bun:test`](/test)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Workers                          | [`new Worker()`](/runtime/workers)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Module Loaders                   | [`Bun.plugin`](/bundler/plugins)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Glob                             | [`Bun.Glob`](/runtime/glob)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| Cookies                          | [`Bun.Cookie`](/runtime/cookies), [`Bun.CookieMap`](/runtime/cookies)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Node-API                         | [`Node-API`](/runtime/node-api)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| `import.meta`                    | [`import.meta`](/runtime/module-resolution#import-meta)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Utilities                        | [`Bun.version`](/runtime/utils#bun-version), [`Bun.revision`](/runtime/utils#bun-revision), [`Bun.env`](/runtime/utils#bun-env), [`Bun.main`](/runtime/utils#bun-main)                                                                                                                                                 |
| Sleep & Timing                   | [`Bun.sleep()`](/runtime/utils#bun-sleep), [`Bun.sleepSync()`](/runtime/utils#bun-sleepsync), [`Bun.nanoseconds()`](/runtime/utils#bun-nanoseconds)                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Random & UUID                    | [`Bun.randomUUIDv7()`](/runtime/utils#bun-randomuuidv7)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| System & Environment             | [`Bun.which()`](/runtime/utils#bun-which)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Comparison & Inspection          | [`Bun.peek()`](/runtime/utils#bun-peek), [`Bun.deepEquals()`](/runtime/utils#bun-deepequals), `Bun.deepMatch`, [`Bun.inspect()`](/runtime/utils#bun-inspect)                                                                                                                                                           |
| String & Text Processing         | [`Bun.escapeHTML()`](/runtime/utils#bun-escapehtml), [`Bun.stringWidth()`](/runtime/utils#bun-stringwidth), `Bun.indexOfLine`                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| URL & Path Utilities             | [`Bun.fileURLToPath()`](/runtime/utils#bun-fileurltopath), [`Bun.pathToFileURL()`](/runtime/utils#bun-pathtofileurl)                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Compression                      | [`Bun.gzipSync()`](/runtime/utils#bun-gzipsync), [`Bun.gunzipSync()`](/runtime/utils#bun-gunzipsync), [`Bun.deflateSync()`](/runtime/utils#bun-deflatesync), [`Bun.inflateSync()`](/runtime/utils#bun-inflatesync), `Bun.zstdCompressSync()`, `Bun.zstdDecompressSync()`, `Bun.zstdCompress()`, `Bun.zstdDecompress()` |
| Stream Processing                | [`Bun.readableStreamTo*()`](/runtime/utils#bun-readablestreamto), `Bun.readableStreamToBytes()`, `Bun.readableStreamToBlob()`, `Bun.readableStreamToFormData()`, `Bun.readableStreamToJSON()`, `Bun.readableStreamToArray()`                                                                                           |
| Memory & Buffer Management       | `Bun.ArrayBufferSink`, `Bun.allocUnsafe`, `Bun.concatArrayBuffers`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Module Resolution                | [`Bun.resolveSync()`](/runtime/utils#bun-resolvesync)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Parsing & Formatting             | [`Bun.semver`](/runtime/semver), [`Bun.TOML.parse`](/runtime/toml), [`Bun.XML`](/runtime/xml), [`Bun.markdown`](/runtime/markdown), [`Bun.color`](/runtime/color), [`Bun.Image`](/runtime/image)                                                                                                                       |
| Low-level / Internals            | `Bun.mmap`, `Bun.gc`, `Bun.generateHeapSnapshot`, [`bun:jsc`](https://bun.com/reference/bun/jsc)                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
