Rust Meets React: Diving Into the Next Generation Build Pipeline for React Apps

A Greenfield project refers to a new project where developers can make all choices regarding frameworks, libraries, and tools without being constrained by existing system limitations.

Common choices include selecting the framework (React, Solid, Next.js, etc.), libraries for state management and UI, testing tools, and build pipelines.

A build step is necessary to transform JSX and TypeScript into JavaScript, remove unused code, enable tree shaking, and minify the code for better performance and smaller bundle sizes.

Vite is a build tool that provides a development server with hot module reload, native ESM support, and optimized production builds, enhancing the development experience with faster builds and a rich plugin ecosystem.

Rolldown is a Rust-based bundler designed to unify and improve upon existing bundler tools like Rollup and ESBuild, offering faster production builds, reduced complexity, and potentially smaller bundles.

Rolldown combines the best features of prior tools, offering faster builds and smaller bundle sizes with advanced chunking and minification features, leading to better feedback loops and lower CI costs.

OXC is the underlying technology for Rolldown, providing fast parsing, module resolution, and transformations necessary for efficient builds in Rust, enhancing performance and compatibility.

Auxlint offers a fast linting experience, being 50-100 times faster than ESLint, with built-in support for common React rules and compatibility with custom ESLint plugins.

Auxformat provides a performant formatting tool with Prettier-compatible defaults, offering faster formatting times and addressing common issues found in existing formatting tools.

Developers using Vite can easily switch to Rolldown by updating dependencies, while Auxlint can be used standalone in any project, offering a fast and efficient linting solution.