Farm Has a Free API: The Vite-Compatible Bundler Written in Rust

Vite is fast. Farm is faster — 10x faster HMR, 5x faster builds. And it's Vite-compatible.

What Is Farm?

Farm is a Rust-based web build tool that's compatible with Vite's plugin ecosystem. It handles compilation, bundling, and dev server — all in Rust for maximum speed.

npm create farm@latest my-app
cd my-app
npm install && npm start
# Dev server at http://localhost:9000

Vite Plugin Compatibility

// farm.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@farmfe/core'
import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react'  // Vite plugin works!

export default defineConfig({
  vitePlugins: [react()],
  compilation: {
    input: { index: './index.html' },
    output: { path: './dist' }
  }
})

Most Vite plugins work out of the box. Use your existing @vitejs/plugin-react, @vitejs/plugin-vue, etc.

Performance

Metric	Vite	Farm	Speedup
Cold start (1000 modules)	1.5s	0.3s	5x
HMR update	50ms	5ms	10x
Production build	20s	4s	5x

Key Features

• Incremental compilation — only recompile changed modules
• Persistent cache — second builds are near-instant
• Partial bundling — smart code splitting without configuration
• Tree shaking — built-in, optimized
• CSS Modules, PostCSS, Sass — all built-in
• React, Vue, Svelte, Solid — all supported

Why Farm Over Vite

Vite uses esbuild for dev and Rollup for production — two different tools with different behaviors. Farm uses one Rust-based pipeline for both, so dev and production behave identically.

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