It’s just the best thing ever. Compiling at work took a minute for full builds with babel, and with rsbuild it now takes about 0.9 seconds.

Update: changed a pet project to use this instead of the babel approach. Literally just did the config changes in the article, no issues. Time from `npm run dev` to ready went from 6 to 2 seconds.

Finally got rid of Webpack in 2022, and now I'll be able to get rid of Babel, too.

It's a bit mesmerizing to think that Vite at the time was still "that newish tool the Vue folk use", and now it's pretty much the standard bundler for web frontend. Also the easiest one to configure and use (in my experience).

Similarly, I'm glad I don't have to deal with karma, jest, etc. anymore.