Why you should migrate to Rspack from webpack

Rspack, launched by ByteDance in early 2023, is an open-source web bundler designed to be a swift and efficient alternative to webpack, addressing some of the latter's performance issues such as high memory usage and slow build times in large projects. Built with Rust and TypeScript, Rspack leverages multi-threading for enhanced performance, offering features like parallelized operations, incremental compilation, and optimized hot module replacement. It retains compatibility with webpack's configuration schema and loader architecture, making it a convenient drop-in replacement. While Rspack delivers notable improvements in build time, offering 5-10x faster performance in some cases, it is still in its early stages, with its APIs not yet stable and limited caching capabilities. Despite this, it has seen successful use in ByteDance's internal projects and is being adopted in the community, with plans to enhance its caching capabilities for better performance with larger projects. The transition from webpack to Rspack is straightforward, as demonstrated through a React project migration, highlighting Rspack's potential to significantly improve web development workflows.