Quick Tips

Set revalidate intervals so bext serves cached HTML and regenerates in the background. Faster TTFB with fresh content.

Wrap slow data fetches in Suspense boundaries. The shell ships instantly and content streams in as it resolves.

Pages without interactivity don't need client-side JS. bext detects this automatically and ships zero-JS HTML.

bext compresses responses with Brotli and gzip out of the box. No reverse proxy or middleware needed.

Turn on the web application firewall for automatic protection against SQL injection, XSS, and common exploits.

Enabled by default. All HTTP requests 301 to HTTPS. Certificates provision automatically via ACME.

Configure CSP in bext.config to lock down script sources. Prevents inline injection and third-party script abuse.

Use the rate-limit plugin or built-in middleware to cap requests per IP. Sliding window, Redis-backed.

bext swaps to the new build atomically. Old requests finish on the previous version, new requests hit the new one.

Define a health route so bext verifies the new version is healthy before completing the rollout.

Run bext upgrade to fetch the latest release and hot-swap the running instance without dropping connections. Use --check to preview first.

bext's built-in package manager is written in Rust and significantly faster than npm. It reads your existing package-lock.json.

Run bext download ut ut/pack ut/web to fetch all toolchain binaries. They're placed next to the bext binary and work immediately.

bext x runs package binaries from node_modules or fetches them on the fly. Same behavior as npx, no Node.js required.

bext ut run dev executes scripts from package.json. Supports workspaces with topological ordering via --workspaces.