Introducing Turbopack: the Turbo-charged bundler
summary
Turbopack claims a fresh, Rust-based bundler built on an incremental Turbo Engine that re-executes only changed tasks, reusing SALSA-inspired ideas and SWC work. Benchmarks show HMR updates 700× faster than Webpack/Next 12 on a 20,000-module page and ~10× faster than Vite, with lazy compilation and dev-optimized bundles. It is alpha, dev-focused today, plans persistent caching, production builds for Next.js, and a stable API for ecosystem porting.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 3:18Bundler Evolution
- 9:02Application Developer Experience
- 9:41Framework Developer Experience
- 10:09User Experience
- 10:39Design Tenets
- 11:02Turbopack is Adaptable
- 12:06Turbopack is Fast
- 13:45Turbopack is Scalable
- 17:36HMR Updates
- 18:05Dev Server Startup
- 19:23Future Plans
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