The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite

The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite(blog.master.dev)

128 points by acusti 11 hours ago | 25 comments

adzm 10 hours ago |

No more babel in my compilation pipeline, yay!

Waterluvian 8 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.

fishfasell 58 minutes ago | | |

Rust is such an awesome language. The execution times are blazing fast.

adzm 8 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.

koito17 2 hours ago | |

Finally got rid of Webpack in 2022, and now I'll be able to get rid of Babel, too.

It's a bit mesmerizing to think that Vite at the time was still "that newish tool the Vue folk use", and now it's pretty much the standard bundler for web frontend. Also the easiest one to configure and use (in my experience).

Similarly, I'm glad I don't have to deal with karma, jest, etc. anymore.

BretonForearm 4 hours ago |

What's a react compiler? Not JS or TS?

francislavoie 4 hours ago | |

https://react.dev/learn/react-compiler/introduction

vmsp 7 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 5 hours 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 10 hours ago |

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

ownagefool 10 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 8 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 6 hours ago | |

Because next is the worsttttt

mexicocitinluez 7 hours ago | |

Because it isn't supported by SWC yet.