How we cut 4,403 backend tests from 10 minutes to 33 seconds with Bun

kept by eliora aug 31

EvryStay migrated 4,403 backend tests from Jest to Bun, optimized MongoDB usage and test parallelism, reducing full suite runtime from 10 minutes to 33 seconds on an M5 Pro.

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