A curated list of JavaScript tooling not written in JavaScript
- esbuild - JavaScript bundler in Go.
- Parcel - Web application bundler, with its JavaScript transformer written in Rust on top of swc (source).
- Bun - JS, TS, JSX bundler, JS and CSS transpiler, dev server and JS runtime environment, written in Zig.
- Turbopack - incremental bundler optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust.
- Rspack β A fast web bundler (drop-in replacement for Webpack), written in Rust.
- swc - TypeScript/JavaScript compiler in Rust.
- Relay - JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications, compiler in Rust.
- Paperclip - Presentational component compiler in Rust + WASM.
- Closure Compiler - in Java.
- Boa - Embeddable and experimental Javascript engine, written in Rust.
- Goja - ECMAScript/JavaScript engine, written in Go .
- Hermes - JavaScript engine optimized for React Native, written in C++.
- V8 - High-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++.
- JavaScriptCore β JavaScript engine for Swift, Objective-C, and C-based apps, written in C++.
- dprint - Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform written in Rust; supports several languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Deno Lint
- Flow - Static type checker for JavaScript, written in OCaml.
- quick-lint-js - Written in C++.
- RSLint - Extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript linter, written in Rust. (WIP)
If you can think of a more appropriate category for the items below, PRs welcome!
- Fast Node Manager (fnm) - Node.js version manager, written in Rust.
- Volt - JavaScript Package Manager, written in Rust.
- Volta - JavaScript Tool Manager, written in Rust.
- es-module-lexer - JavaScript module syntax lexer, written in C.
- npm-dep-check-rust - Find unused dependencies in Node.js applications, written in Rust.
- Rome - Linter, compiler, bundler, and more for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, Markdown, and CSS, π§ currently being re-written in Rust (source).
- Wrangler - CLI tool to develop Clouflare Workers, written in Rust.
- Turborepo - The high-performance build system for JavaScript & TypeScript codebases, written in Go, π§ currently being migrated to Rust (source).
- Blueboat β all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime, written in Rust.
- Proto β A multi-language version and dependency manager, written in Rust.
- Writing JavaScript tools in other languages β a new trend?, Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- The Third Age of JavaScript, Shawn (@swyx) Wang
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