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Lugas

Choosing Lugas

Choose Lugas if you want

Section titled “Choose Lugas if you want”
  • Compile-time type safety between server and client
  • Standard Schema validation without lock-in
  • Deterministic runtime manifests for inspection
  • A small explicit API surface
  • Zero production runtime dependencies

Choose raw Bun if you want

Section titled “Choose raw Bun if you want”
  • Absolute minimum overhead
  • Direct access to Bun’s full API surface
  • No abstraction layer

Choose Elysia if you want

Section titled “Choose Elysia if you want”
  • WebSocket support
  • Rich plugin ecosystem
  • OpenAPI generation from schemas
  • Lifecycle hooks at the framework level

Performance

Section titled “Performance”

See docs/reports/m5-plain-performance.md for measured data. Static routes show no measurable overhead; validated routes trade ~17% throughput for typed context derivation and error boundaries.