Guides HTTP & Networking

Stream a file as an HTTP Response

This snippet reads a file from disk using Bun.file(). This returns a BunFile instance, which can be passed directly into the new Response constructor.

server.ts

const path = "/path/to/file.txt";
const file = Bun.file(path);
const resp = new Response(file);

The Content-Type is read from the file and automatically set on the Response.

server.ts

new Response(Bun.file("./package.json")).headers.get("Content-Type");
// => application/json;charset=utf-8

new Response(Bun.file("./test.txt")).headers.get("Content-Type");
// => text/plain;charset=utf-8

new Response(Bun.file("./index.tsx")).headers.get("Content-Type");
// => text/javascript;charset=utf-8

new Response(Bun.file("./img.png")).headers.get("Content-Type");
// => image/png

Putting it all together with Bun.serve().

server.ts

// static file server
Bun.serve({
  async fetch(req) {
    const path = new URL(req.url).pathname;
    const file = Bun.file(path);
    return new Response(file);
  },
});

See Docs > API > File I/O for complete documentation of Bun.write().

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Stream a file as an HTTP Response

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