The Problems With React Server Components

Bun creator Jarred Sumner said that while the JavaScript runtime has React Server Components (RSC) integration, it’s not documented and is in a very incomplete state.

“You can sort of use it if you’re adventurous enough, if you pass //app to Bun build,” Sumner said. “This is something that we eventually want to do a much better job of, but honestly, right now we’re very focused on Node compatibility, so we can’t really spend time on it.”

From a runtime perspective, the overlap of the bundler with the runtime makes it so that…