Turbopack
Ranked 5 of 5 JavaScript bundlers by recommenders
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.
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.
21 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 57%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Faster builds and incremental rebuilds
“It cut my build times from ~1 minute to 15 seconds, incremental builds are down from 10 seconds to 2.”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week” “cut our build times in half moving from Webpack to Turbopack on production builds”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “We moved Railway's front end off Next.js. Builds went from 10 minutes to under 2” “just took our build times down from 6 minutes to 2 minutes”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “We moved Railway's front end off Next.js. Builds went from 10 minutes to under 2” - Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Isn't WSL2 just a VM?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Missing or limited plugin support
“not all Webpack plugins capabilities are supported and now anyone that wants to make one has to learn Rust”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Turbopack: Building Faster by Building Less” “The biggest issue is missing plugins, but they have an extension point to add them.”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “We moved Railway's front end off Next.js. Builds went from 10 minutes to under 2” “they only ported into Rust the most used plugins with "yes but" constraints.”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Turbopack: Building Faster by Building Less” - Comment from 26 Jan 2026 in “Turbopack: Building Faster by Building Less”
- Comment from 27 Jan 2026 in “Turbopack: Building Faster by Building Less”
Hard to use outside Next.js
“Using nextjs with turbopack in a turborepo+bun monorepo is so hard”
Comment from 26 Jan 2026 in “Turbopack: Building Faster by Building Less” “turbopack is tightly coupled with next.js”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Turbopack: Building Faster by Building Less” Bugs and edge cases in some projects
“Unfortunately turbopack have some bugs in bundling. Does not work on some of my projects.”
Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “We moved Railway's front end off Next.js. Builds went from 10 minutes to under 2” “Turbopack does not work for every app, I think they skip some build steps when building”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “We moved Railway's front end off Next.js. Builds went from 10 minutes to under 2” “Turbopack had severe edge cases, that I had to revert to Webpack”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week”
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See all 5 JavaScript bundlers, rankedWhat people said
25 of the 26 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Turbopack was a great example of when, why, where, to use a new, novel language (Rust)”
“Unfortunately turbopack have some bugs in bundling. Does not work on some of my projects.”
“The biggest issue is missing plugins, but they have an extension point to add them.”
“Turbopack does not work for every app, I think they skip some build steps when building”
“Zero references to Turbopack, maybe start there?”
“cut our build times in half moving from Webpack to Turbopack on production builds”
“recently switched from turbopack after getting annoyed by build times”
“just took our build times down from 6 minutes to 2 minutes”
“isn't tied to a specific framework”
“Our initial local route loads took 10 to 12 seconds under the full weight of the App Router and RSCs.”
“It cut my build times from ~1 minute to 15 seconds, incremental builds are down from 10 seconds to 2.”
“Turbopack had severe edge cases, that I had to revert to Webpack”
“our plugin story is not fully fleshed out”
“resulted in faster builds but also non-recoverable errors on syntax errors”
“Turbopack was not a real product for years. It was forever stuck in weird beta/alpha stage”
“Using nextjs with turbopack in a turborepo+bun monorepo is so hard”
“Turbopack has severe limitations when compared to Webpack”
“there's no tangible plan for any plugin support in Turbopack”
“Fine-grained dependency tracking with automatic invalidation is the right way to do incremental compilation.”
“they only ported into Rust the most used plugins with "yes but" constraints.”
“turbopack is tightly coupled with next.js”
“This thing can't be replaced by bun on Linux.”
“not all Webpack plugins capabilities are supported and now anyone that wants to make one has to learn Rust”
“Luckily DX is much better now with Turbopack as a bundler.”
“if using Turbopack, even less”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.