# Turbopack

12 Hacker News commenters recommended Turbopack and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for fast builds, with reports of cutting build times in half or more. The most common caveat is missing Webpack plugin support.

## Why people recommend it

- Faster builds and incremental rebuilds (4 comments): "It cut my build times from ~1 minute to 15 seconds, incremental builds are down from 10 seconds to 2." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150141)) "cut our build times in half moving from Webpack to Turbopack on production builds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687892)) "just took our build times down from 6 minutes to 2 minutes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687335))

## What people warn about

- Missing or limited plugin support (5 comments): "not all Webpack plugins capabilities are supported and now anyone that wants to make one has to learn Rust" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701782)) "The biggest issue is missing plugins, but they have an extension point to add them." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705638)) "they only ported into Rust the most used plugins with "yes but" constraints." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704605))
- Hard to use outside Next.js (2 comments): "Using nextjs with turbopack in a turborepo+bun monorepo is so hard" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762397)) "turbopack is tightly coupled with next.js" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703847))
- Bugs and edge cases in some projects (3 comments): "Unfortunately turbopack have some bugs in bundling. Does not work on some of my projects." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717632)) "Turbopack does not work for every app, I think they skip some build steps when building" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704766)) "Turbopack had severe edge cases, that I had to revert to Webpack" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143622))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Vite](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vite.md): 135 recommend
- [esbuild](https://hackerapproved.com/p/esbuild.md): 31 recommend
- [Rolldown](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rolldown.md): 13 recommend
- [webpack](https://hackerapproved.com/p/webpack.md): 13 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Turbopack", https://hackerapproved.com/p/turbopack/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).