Rolldown 1.0, a Rust‑rewritten JavaScript bundler that fully mimics Rollup's API, is now the default engine in Vite 8, delivering 10‑30× speed gains, real‑world build‑time reductions of up to 64%, seamless plugin compatibility, and a roadmap of new features while relying heavily on the Vite ecosystem.
This article explains what ESBuild and SWC are, why they dramatically speed up JavaScript bundling and compilation compared to traditional tools, and provides practical guidance on integrating them into modern frontend workflows such as Vite, Webpack, and custom scripts.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Rollup plugins, explaining why plugins are needed, detailing hook types and their execution timing, showing how to create simple plugins with example code, and exploring internal mechanisms such as PluginDriver, hook loading, and caching.
This article introduces Rollup as a modern JavaScript bundler, explains its advantages over CommonJS and Webpack, demonstrates quick-start commands for browsers, Node.js, and UMD formats, covers tree‑shaking with ES modules, and provides a complete TypeScript‑React library setup with configuration and publishing steps.
