Rush Stack is a work in progress to create a reusable toolchain that can be shared by many different TypeScript projects in a Rush monorepo. Rush itself is flexible and doesn't impose any limitations for how a project is built. But this flexibility comes at a cost: When developers choose popular tools and write a script to invoke them, they often quickly find themselves invested in a nontrivial tooling project, with a growing backlog of requests to improve the developer experience, performance, scalability, and so forth. Rush Stack aims to eliminate this hassle, by providing a complete and professional solution for all the common problems such as:
- compiling
- linting
- localization
- *.js bundling and *.d.ts rollups
- live debugging (with hot module replacement)
- unit tests
- publishing
- documentation
Rush Stack is a collaboration between various stakeholders in the Rush community, with the following common goals:
- complete solution: Rush Stack will support customization and extensibility, but the out-of-box configuration will aim to handle all the most common JavaScript development scenarios (e.g. 80% of projects in an enterprise monorepo)
- opinionated approach: We will bet on specific components (e.g. webpack, Jest, etc) with proven records.
- integrated solution: We'll leverage these bets to ensure that the components integrate properly, and "go deep" to ensure the best possible developer experience.
- open architecture: Whereas previous approaches attempted to encapsulate components behind "task" abstractions that would be easier to use in theory, the Rush Stack architecture aims to be easy to understand, easy to debug, and easy to contribute fixes to.
- performance tracking: The toolchain will provide fine-grained diagnostics for tracking build execution and bundle sizes.
- multi-phase builds: The build process will have formalized stages for compiling, type-checking, bundling, unit-tests, which allows downstream projects to start building before upstream projects complete their later stages
- multi-machine builds: Rush Stack will provide a standardized model for sharding builds across multiple VMs.
- standardized layouts: We hope to simplify the onboarding experience when starting with any monorepo that uses Rush Stack, by establishing familiar directory structures and naming conventions.
Rush Stack is still in its early phases. If you'd like to participate, please open an issue or join the web-build-tools Gitter community.