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Building

Please see prerequisites for setting up Rust and Node.js.

Install Node.js dependencies

Install Node.js dependencies via pnpm.

# enable pnpm with corepack
corepack enable

# Install dependencies
pnpm i

Building Rspack

  • Run cargo build to compile Rust code.
  • Run pnpm run build:cli:dev to compile both Node.js and Rust code.
  • If you want to build Rspack Wasm, run pnpm run build:cli:dev:wasm.

The built binary is located at packages/rspack-cli/bin/rspack.