Rspack blogs#

Rspack 1.6 has been released with better ESM output, enhanced tree shaking, support for the import defer syntax, stabilized layers feature, and default barrel file optimization.

Rspack 1.5 has been released, introducing barrel file optimization and constant inlining optimization, also adding a built-in file system watcher, a virtual modules plugin, and a Rust extension mechanism, while dropping support for Node.js 16.

Tree shaking has become an essential part of modern front-end bundling. This article provides a brief overview of tree shaking principles across different bundlers and explores their key differences.

Today, we’re excited to introduce next-rspack, a community-driven plugin bringing direct Rspack support to Next.js. This integration offers a fast, webpack-compatible alternative for teams not yet ready to adopt Turbopack.

Rspack 1.3 has been released with support for detecting circular dependencies, building HTTP imports, and referencing AMD modules. It introduces a new lazy compilation middleware, while also improving code splitting performance, output bundle size, and memory usage.

Rspack 1.2 has been released, introducing experimental persistent caching, a faster code splitting algorithm, and Yarn PnP support.

This article will briefly introduce the content of the "Build Systems à la Carte: Theory and Practice" paper and attempt to summarize bundlers from the perspective of build systems.

This article introduces the construction practices of RSC (React Server Components) and Server Action in React, including their concepts, rendering methods, bundling process in webpack, and how Turbopack bundles multiple environment modules in a module diagram.

Rspack and Rsbuild 1.1 has been released, significantly improve the performance of cold starts and incremental builds. It also improve the built-in HTML plugin and types of configuration options.

Rspack 1.0 alpha is now available on npm! Before releasing Rspack 1.0 stable version, we will test for 1~2 months to improve the API stability and reliability of v1.0 and to verify its impact on downstream projects.

Today Rspack has reached a new milestone - 1.0. This means that Rspack is production-ready, covers most of webpack's APIs and features, and is now prepared to support more users.

Rspack 0.7 has been released, featuring support for lazy compilation, which can significantly improve the dev startup performance of large applications. It also introduces a brand-new css-module-lexer, increasing CSS bundling speed by 4 times.

This article primarily focuses on understanding the concept of Rspack & webpack tree shaking.

Rspack 0.6 is out, with built-in support for mini-css-extract-plugin and new tree-shaking enabled by default.

This article introduces the chunk strategy of webpack. Through this article, you can understand when a chunk will be generated in the code and how to reduce the chunk size, etc.

Rspack 0.5 is out, supporting Module Federation and removing the default SWC transformation.

The latest Rspack 0.5.0 introduces the highly anticipated Module Federation, which is detailed in this article.

This article shows how the CSS order problem occurs in webpack and how to solve it.

Rspack 0.4 is out, removing support for some builtin features.

In this article, we will take a closer look at aspects such as the specification, toolchain support, webpack runtime, and profiling of Top-level await.

This article explains why we decided to develop Rspack and what trade-offs we made during the design process.

Rspack 0.3 is out, adding support for web workers and the builtin:swc-loader.

Rspack 0.2 is out, introducing many new features, such as support for realContentHash, DataURI, and the ESM format, and more.

Rspack has officially been released!