brust is published on npm as brustjs (the brust name was taken), on the alpha channel. The commands below need no version — latest tracks the newest alpha during this phase; pin brustjs@alpha to stay on the prerelease channel once a stable ships.

Requirements

• Bun ≥ 1.4 — brust is a Bun framework; it does not run on Node.js.
• macOS or Linux (glibc or musl). Prebuilt native binaries ship as platform packages, so you do not need a Rust toolchain.
• React 19 — react and react-dom ^19.2.6 are peer dependencies. The scaffold includes them.

Scaffold a new project

bun create brustjs my-app
cd my-app
bun install
bun run dev          # → http://localhost:1337

bun create brustjs forwards to brust's own scaffolder, so the templates and the pinned brustjs version are owned by the framework package.

Templates

Two templates are available:

On an interactive terminal the scaffolder prompts you to pick one; pass --template <name> (or -t) to choose explicitly, or --yes (-y) to skip the prompt and take minimal.

brust new

The same scaffolder is available as a CLI command if you install brustjs globally:

bun add --global brustjs
brustjs new my-app --template minimal

brust new <name> accepts:

The target directory must be empty (or not exist yet).

Add to an existing project

bun add brustjs react react-dom

Then create an index.ts entry and a routes.tsx — see Your First Route for the minimum viable app.

A note on versions

brust is in alpha. During the alpha period the npm latest dist-tag tracks the newest alpha release, so plain bun add brustjs and bun create brustjs get the current prerelease without a version suffix. If you want to stay on the alpha channel explicitly once a stable version ships, pin it:

bun add brustjs@alpha

Next

Write and run a route: Your First Route.