Use Neon's Serverless Postgres with Bun

Neon is a fully managed serverless Postgres. Neon separates compute and storage to offer modern developer features such as autoscaling, branching, bottomless storage, and more.

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Get started by creating a project directory, initializing the directory using bun init, and adding the Neon serverless driver as a project dependency.

terminal

mkdir bun-neon-postgres
cd bun-neon-postgres
bun init -y
bun add @neondatabase/serverless

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Create a .env.local file and add your Neon Postgres connection string to it.

.env.local

DATABASE_URL=postgresql://usertitle:[e-mail]/neondb?sslmode=require

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Paste the following code into your project’s index.ts file.

index.ts

import { neon } from "@neondatabase/serverless";

// Bun automatically loads the DATABASE_URL from .env.local
// Refer to: https://bun.com/docs/runtime/environment-variables for more information
const sql = neon(process.env.DATABASE_URL);

const rows = await sql`SELECT version()`;

console.log(rows[0].version);

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Start the program using bun ./index.ts. The Postgres version should be printed to the console.

terminal

bun ./index.ts

PostgreSQL 16.2 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, 64-bit

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This example used the Neon serverless driver’s SQL-over-HTTP functionality. Neon’s serverless driver also exposes Client and Pool constructors to enable sessions, interactive transactions, and node-postgres compatibility.

Refer to Neon’s documentation for a complete overview of the serverless driver.