Many of our teams working on web-based frontends have switched from older bundling tools — Webpack comes to mind — to Vite. A new entrant in this field is Rspack, which after 18 months in development has just seen its 1.0 release. Designed as a drop-in replacement for Webpack, it’s compatible with plug-ins and loaders in the Webpack ecosystem. This can be an advantage over Vite when migrating complex Webpack setups. The main reason why our teams are migrating to newer tools like Vite and Rspack is developer experience and, in particular, speed. Nothing breaks the flow of development more than having to wait a minute or two before getting feedback on the last code change. Written in Rust, Rspack delivers significantly faster performance than Webpack, and in many cases, it's even faster than Vite.
