🚀 Feature: migrate from `webpack` to `rspack`

[JounQin]

🔖 Feature description

https://www.rspack.dev

Rspack is

A fast Rust-based web bundler Build a high-performance frontend toolchain

🎤 Context

rspack is much faster then webpack and it is compatible to migrate smoothly, at least that's what they claim.

✌️ Possible Implementation

N/A

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this feature request has been raised before?

• [X] I checked and didn't find similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• [X] I have read the Code of Conduct

Are you willing to submit PR?

Yes I am willing to submit a PR!

[freben]

If someone goes through the effort and posts a PR with timing results, it'd be interesting to see. But no promises that it'll be accepted :)

[JounQin]

I'd like to work on this.

[tudi2d]

We are trying out Vite already to replace some parts of our Webpack build pipeline. We would not be able to promise you, that we would actually want to ship rspack. Changing the build tool can be quite a big effort. If you want to work on this regardless you are free to do so.

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[JounQin]

ping

I'll work on this soon.

[JounQin]

@freben @tudi2d

Please help to review #22698

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[Flexicon]

Would be really great to see this implemented!

@Rugvip - it looks like the above PR by @JounQin was unfortunately overlooked thus far. Any chance you or another maintainer of Backstage could take a look? 🙏🏻

[awanlin]

I'm not a maintainer but fairly active and this is what I know. There's a lot of work being done around auth and a few other things that are keeping the core team pretty busy. Getting this after that work is probably the plan as this could have a large impact. It's just going to take time for them to get to it.

[Flexicon]

Thanks for the insight @awanlin - makes perfect sense.

[Rugvip]

@Flexicon it's actually stale from the author side. We discussed it in a SIG meeting and settled on adding experimental support behind a flag and optional peer dependencies. This is now waiting for a contribution to add that.

[awanlin]

Thanks @Rugvip, I thought there had been some discussions on this 👍

[JounQin]

I'm stuck on business work these days and will be back soon.

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[JounQin]

Sorry I'm extremely late here, please help to review #25953.

[drodil]

Interesting. Are there any measurements of how much faster it is in this project?