Creating Your First Project

Let’s start simple to get a feel for using htmx. Open a terminal window and install Bun by entering the following command:

~~~ console $ curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash ~~~

Windows users can use WSL to enter this curl command. Another option is to enter the command powershell -c "irm bun.sh/install.ps1|iex". Yet another is to install the Chocolatey[4] package manager for Windows and enter choco install bun.

When the install is finished, cd to the directory where the project will be created, and enter bunx create-hono to create the project. After the “Target directory” prompt, enter a project name like “htmx-demo.” The next prompt will be “Which template do you want to use?”; select “bun”. The next prompt will ...

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