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Standards & Compatibility

Archive

Create and extract tar archives with Bun's fast native implementation

Binary Data

Working with binary data in JavaScript

SQL

Bun provides native bindings for working with SQL databases through a unified Promise-based API that supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

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Quickstart Creating Archives Writing Archives to Disk Getting Archive Bytes Extracting Archives From Existing Archive Data Extracting to Disk Filtering Extracted Files Reading Archive Contents Get All Files Error Handling Filtering with Glob Patterns Compression Examples Bundle Project Files Extract and Process npm Package Create Archive from Directory Reference