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farm-fe/farm

Extremely fast Vite-compatible web build tool written in Rust observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/farm-fe/farm · homepage · Rust · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

71/100

  • Activity 87
  • Release rhythm 33
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 0.0
  • age_days: 1529
  • days_rel: 371
  • days_push: 80
  • n_releases_24m: 199

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

5592 stars · 192 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Farm is an extremely fast, Vite-compatible web build tool and bundler written in Rust that compiles JS/JSX/TS/TSX, CSS, HTML, JSON, and static assets into deployable bundles, with a built-in dev server offering millisecond cold starts and sub-10ms HMR updates. It ships official Rust and JavaScript plugins for React, Vue, Solid, and Sass/Less/PostCSS, supports Vite plugins directly, and provides persistent incremental compilation plus flexible partial bundling so development and production output stay consistent.

Use cases

  • speed up builds of a large webpack project
  • find a fast Vite alternative written in Rust
  • scaffold a React or Vue project with instant HMR
  • bundle a TypeScript frontend app for production
  • fix slow dev server refreshes with thousands of modules
  • keep dev and production builds consistent
  • control how bundles are split for better caching

When to choose

  • Your large web project takes minutes to build with webpack and HMR updates take tens of seconds
  • You want Vite-style dev server, HMR, and plugin ergonomics backed by Rust-native speed and persistent module-level caching
  • You need flexible, fine-grained bundle splitting without losing caching granularity
  • You value identical behavior between development and production builds to simplify debugging

When to avoid

  • You depend on deeply webpack-specific loaders or plugins that cannot map to Rollup/Vite-style hooks
  • You are bundling non-web targets such as native binaries or backend-only libraries
  • Your team requires the most battle-tested, mature ecosystem for a critical legacy build pipeline
  • You are starting a tiny project where migrating to a newer build tool is not worth the effort

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

build-tool compiler cli web-development frontend developer-tools cross-platform cli windows bundler vite-compatible hmr rust tree-shaking code-splitting partial-bundling incremental-compilation persistent-cache dev-server react vue typescript css-modules sass frontend-tooling plugin-system esm command-line nodejs linux macos

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Member repositories

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