The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite

110 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by acusti
(blog.master.dev)

12 Comments

adzm

6 hours ago

No more babel in my compilation pipeline, yay!

Waterluvian

4 hours ago

It’s just the best thing ever. Compiling at work took a minute for full builds with babel, and with rsbuild it now takes about 0.9 seconds.

adzm

4 hours ago

Update: changed a pet project to use this instead of the babel approach. Literally just did the config changes in the article, no issues. Time from `npm run dev` to ready went from 6 to 2 seconds.

vmsp

3 hours ago

OXC Transformers are amazingly faster than Babel. I'm building a framework (https://github.com/vmsp/flypath) for web, iOS and Android native development that's fully backed by OXC and Vite. Instead of transforming styles using Babel like StyleX, I just use OXC. Instead of Metro (React Native's bundler), which also uses Babel, it's just Vite. It's still very early but it's plenty, plenty fast.

nwienert

an hour ago

Cool stuff. I'm moving One[stack.dev] onto pure rust now, and Tamagui v3 compiler will also is moving from Babel to Yuku which is quite interesting - from my testing it's more flexible and quite a bit faster than OXC.

syspec

6 hours ago

Does this work with reacts fancy new compiler that is meant to optimize away various hooks?

ownagefool

6 hours ago

If it wasn't obvious from the article, this is an implementation in the same thing in rust, ergo significantly faster. This was enabled, I presume, by the upstream react introducing code a rust version in source ( but they don't produce a standard binary last I checked )

Onavo

4 hours ago

Why does the Nextjs version of React compiler require a babel plugin when the vite version doesn't need it? Next.js is on SWC, not sure why they need a babel plugin.

crypto137

2 hours ago

Because next is the worsttttt