JS Tooling in Rust

A curated list of JavaScript tooling written in Rust

Table of contents

• Bundlers
• Compilers
• Engines
• Formatters
• Linters
• Miscellaneous

Bundlers

• turbopack, "incremental bundler optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript" by Vercel
• packem
• parcel
• pax
• rspack, A fast Rust-based web bundler
• rolldown, A fast Rust bundler for JavaScript with Rollup-compatible API.
• moon

Compilers

• paperclip, presentational component compiler
• parcel, TypeScript/JavaScript compiler
• relay compiler, Relay compiler rewritten in Rust (experimental)
• rusty-typescript, TypeScript compiler
• swc, TypeScript/JavaScript compiler

Engines

• boa, an embeddable and experimental JavaScript engine
• deno, JavaScript and TypeScript runtime
• starlight, JavaScript Engine with focus on performance

Formatters

• dprint, Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform written in Rust. Supports several languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript.
• dprint plugin for TypeScript, dprint plugin for TypeScript
• rome formatter, formatter of the rome toolchain

Linters

• deno Lint, crate for writing fast JavaScript and TypeScript linters
• RSLint, a (WIP) Extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript linter
• oxlint drop-in replacement for ESLint with more than 200 rules

Miscellaneous

• biome, "Biome is a linter, compiler, bundler, and more for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, Markdown, and CSS."
• Fast Node Manager (fnm), Node.js version manager
• npm-dep-check-rust, find unused dependencies in Node.js applications
• rustywind, sort tailwind css classes
• svgcleaner, clean up svg files
• volta, a JavaScript Tool Manager

CSS

• lightning CSS, "An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier.". The CSS transformer and minifier used in Parcel.
• railwind, Tailwind compiler rewritten in Rust

WASM

• Awesome Rust WASM, A list of awesome Rust and WebAssembly projects, libraries, tools, and resources.

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