Turbopack: Building faster by building less

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Post by feross » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

Turbopack: Building faster by building less
nextjs.org

Re: Turbopack: Building faster by building less

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 6:15 AM UTC

Much less indeed, not all Webpack plugins capabilities are supported and now anyone that wants to make one has to learn Rust, which surely isn't the same as writing it in JavaScript.

The splitting communities effect always gets left out of these announcements, or gets positioned as something good.

Re: Turbopack: Building faster by building less

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Post by brylie » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 8:02 AM UTC

I may be out of the loop, but isn't the JS/TS community consolidating around Vite?

https://vite.dev/

Re: Turbopack: Building faster by building less

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Post by o_m » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 9:06 AM UTC

brylie wrote: post #3

I may be out of the loop, but isn't the JS/TS community consolidating around Vite? https://vite.dev/

Yes, TurboPack is for legacy projects that can't update from Webpack, but still want some bundle speed improvements.

Re: Turbopack: Building faster by building less

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Post by almaight » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 9:13 AM UTC

This thing can't be replaced by bun on Linux.

Re: Turbopack: Building faster by building less

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Post by chrisldgk » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 10:10 AM UTC

o_m wrote: post #4

brylie wrote: post #3

I may be out of the loop, but isn't the JS/TS community consolidating around Vite? https://vite.dev/

Yes, TurboPack is for legacy projects that can't update from Webpack, but still want some bundle speed improvements.

Which is mainly NextJS (old and new), since under the hood that still seems to rely on Webpack.

Re: Turbopack: Building faster by building less

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Post by chrisldgk » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 10:11 AM UTC

almaight wrote: post #5

This thing can't be replaced by bun on Linux.

Is this a quip I’m not understanding or is there really something here that bun‘s bundled wouldn’t be able to do? Because I can’t find anything.

Re: Turbopack: Building faster by building less

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Post by rk06 » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 10:59 AM UTC

brylie wrote: post #3

I may be out of the loop, but isn't the JS/TS community consolidating around Vite? https://vite.dev/

turbopack is tightly coupled with next.js

rest of the JS community can't use turbopack, so they went with vite

Re: Turbopack: Building faster by building less

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Post by icyJoseph » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 11:28 AM UTC

rk06 wrote: post #8

brylie wrote: post #3

I may be out of the loop, but isn't the JS/TS community consolidating around Vite? https://vite.dev/

turbopack is tightly coupled with next.js rest of the JS community can't use turbopack, so they went with vite

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Re: Turbopack: Building faster by building less

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 12:17 PM UTC

o_m wrote: post #4

brylie wrote: post #3

I may be out of the loop, but isn't the JS/TS community consolidating around Vite? https://vite.dev/

Yes, TurboPack is for legacy projects that can't update from Webpack, but still want some bundle speed improvements.

Not really, because they only ported into Rust the most used plugins with "yes but" constraints.