Rolldown Has a Free Rust-Powered Bundler — The Future of Vite's Build Engine
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Vite uses esbuild for dev and Rollup for production. That split causes subtle bugs. Rolldown fixes it by replacing both — with one Rust-powered bundler. What is Rolldown? Rolldown is a Rust-based JavaScript bundler designed to be Rollup-compatible. Built by the Vite team (Evan You and VoidZero), it will eventually become Vite's unified bundler for both dev and production. Why Rolldown Matters 1. Rollup-Compatible API // rolldown.config.js export default {