Rspack
Fast Rust-based bundler with webpack-compatible API for modern web apps.
Build tools and bundlers npm MIT
How Rspack is used
Rspack joined the catalog on its public numbers (4,601,633 downloads a week on npm and 12,949 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 3 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Vite (1,216 projects). Projects that use it most often also use ts-node (80.0%), Prettier (80.0%), Nx ESLint Plugin (60.0%).
Rspack popularity over time
Gid Score 51: downloads 78, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 54, downloads trend 56 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Rspack
| ts-node | 80.0% of Rspack projects · 16.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| Prettier | 80.0% of Rspack projects · 3.8× more than average |
| Nx ESLint Plugin | 60.0% of Rspack projects · 51.7× more than average |
| Nx Jest Plugin | 60.0% of Rspack projects · 70.3× more than average |
| Nx JS Plugin | 60.0% of Rspack projects · 36.9× more than average |
| @nx/react | 60.0% of Rspack projects · 93.1× more than average |
| Nx Web | 60.0% of Rspack projects · 54.0× more than average |
How Rspack is funded
Open Collective: Rspack
| Received, last 12 months | $13,296 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $15,360 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $4,880 |
| Raised since the start | $14,599 · $9,719 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $439 · $159 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +1003% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 6 |
May 2023Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in May 2023. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund Rspack
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @rspack/core |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (5) |
Alternatives to Rspack
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Rspack are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vite npm Fast native-ESM powered web development build tool and dev server. |
90 | 1,216 (25.2%) | 119M | 83.4K | MIT |
| esbuild npm Extremely fast JavaScript and CSS bundler and minifier written in Go. |
82 | 290 (6.0%) | 184M | 40.1K | MIT |
| SWC npm Super-fast Rust-based JavaScript compiler and bundler alternative to Babel. |
74 | 107 (2.2%) | 25.6M | 34.2K | Apache-2.0 |
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