Modern JavaScript Tooling: Exploring Rolldown, Oxc, and Beyond
summary
Rolldown aims to replace the current ESBuild+Rollup mix to give Vite a single Rust bundler that preserves Rollup plugin compatibility and delivers 2.5–16× build time reductions and reports like GitLab’s 100× memory reduction for big projects; Oxc supplies a parser, resolver and transformer that claim parser 3× faster than SWC, resolver 26× faster, transformer ~40× faster than Babel, an Oxlint linter 50–100× faster, and real runs like 265k files checked in 22.5s.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Modern JS tooling intro
- 1:44JS bundlers state
- 3:08Rolldown next-gen bundler
- 4:51Rolldown design & Rollup compat
- 6:57Oxc JavaScript compiler
- 9:46Oxlint ultra-fast linter
- 14:01Rust-JS integration challenges
- 19:18Rollup roadmap & Rolldown
- 21:03Full bundle mode dev server
- 24:35Vite unified tooling future
- 25:19Q&A
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