Farm is a super fast, light-weight web building tool written in Rust. Farm is much faster than existing tools, benchmark(Using Turbo pack's benchmark, 1000 React components) as below:

Test Repo：https://github.com/farm-fe/performance-compare

Test Machine（Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon， 11th Gen Intel© Core™ i5-11400 @ 2.60GHz × 6， 15.5 GiB）

• ⚡ Super Fast: Written in Rust, start a react / vue(incoming) project in milliseconds, perform a HMR update within 10ms for the most situations.
• 🧰 Fully Pluggable: Everything inside Farm is powered by plugins, achieve anything you want by creating a plugin. Support both rust plugins and js plugins.
• ⚙️ Powerful: Support compiling JS/TS/JSX/TSX, css, html and static assets out of box.
• ⏱️ Lazy Compilation: Dynamic imported resources are compiled only when they are requested.
• 📦 Partial Bundling: Bundle your project into a few reasonable bundles, speed up the resources loading without losing the caching granularity.
• 🔒 Consistency: What you see in development will be exactly the same as what you've got in production.
• 🌳 Compatibility: Support both legacy(es5) and modern browsers.

Note:

• See RFC-001 for design motivation and principle.
• This project is still under development. Contributions are welcome.

This project is built on the SWC Project, using swc for html/css/js/tsx/ts/jsx parsing, transforming, optimizing and codegen.

Create a new Farm Project

npx @farmfe/cli@latest create

Start the project:

cd farm-react && npm i && npm start

Refer to Documentation to learn more about Farm.

Farm has implemented all basic features for a web building tool：

• Resolving, loading, transforming and resource generating for web assets(html, css, js/jsx/ts/tsx, static asset and so on).
• Lazy Compilation
• Dev Server and HMR(support react fast fresh)
• Partial Bundling
• Both Rust and Js Plugin System

Next Farm will provide:

• Production Optimization like Minimize and Tree Shake
• Css modules
• Source Map
• Official Plugins Like Sass
• Persistent Cache

See milestones: https://github.com/farm-fe/farm/milestones

Looking forward to more contributions. Our goal is to provide a real high quality and performant web build tool for the community.

Farm is divided into two parts: the js side and the rust side:

• the js side: see code in packages dir, contains core(dev server, file watcher and compiler wrapper), cli， runtime and runtime plugins(module system, hmr)
• the rust side: see code in crates dir, contains core(compilation context, plugin drivers...), compiler(compile process, HMR update...) and plugins.

Steps to develop Farm:

1. Install Rust Toolchain(If you are new to Rust, search Rustup Book) and node 16 or above.
2. Install dependencies with pnpm i.
3. Build the compiler binary: cd packages/core && npm run build:rs
4. Build packages(open a new terminal): cd packages/cli && npm start
5. Work with examples(open a new terminal): cd examples/react && npm start, report an issue if the example do not start normally.
6. If you changed Rust code, run npm run build:rs under packages/core again to get the newest binary.

brightwu（吴明亮）, worked at Bytedance and Tencent, major in frontend architecture.