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PrinceJS – The Bun Framework Built by a 13-Year-Old Dev. Ranked #3 in Performance.

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I’ve been building PrinceJS over the last few months, and today it’s officially among the fastest Bun frameworks available.

Benchmarked with oha -c 100 -z 30s, it hits 21,748 req/s, placing it just behind Elysia (~25k) and Hono (~22k), and well ahead of Express (~9k).

🧰 What’s Inside:

  • Built-in middleware – CORS, logger, rate limiting, static file serving
  • Validation – powered by Zod, integrated at the framework level
  • OpenAPI auto-docs – /docs endpoint out of the box
  • Helpers – cache(), upload(), email(), cron(), all tree-shakable
  • JSX support – render HTML directly if needed

Everything is modular, lightweight, and designed for real-world use.

I built this on my school laptop (i7-6600U, 8GB RAM) and optimized it for speed without bloat.

If you're working with Bun and want a clean, fast, full-featured framework — give PrinceJS a try.

🚀 Get Started in Seconds: 

bun create princejs my-api
cd my-api
bun dev
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📂 GitHub: https://github.com/MatthewTheCoder1218/princejs

⭐ Star it if you’re into fast, clean, open-source tools!

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