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Next.js 13, Vercel, and the future with Guillermo Rauch

PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

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React - What's Next for Webpack?

Webpack is a tool chain that stitches together all your modules into optimal bundles to deliver to the web browser. Most compilers in the world, most compiler tool chains are always written native code. When we started facing some of the scalability challenges with Webpack, one of the first things that we turned to was native code. We replaced Babel with SWC; it's basically a Babel-like tool written Rust. And now we went from the realm of milliseconds to microseconds.

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