rules_nodejs VS turbo

Compare rules_nodejs vs turbo and see what are their differences.

turbo

Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScriptย and TypeScript, written in Rust โ€“ including Turbopack and Turborepo. (by vercel)
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rules_nodejs turbo
8 57
718 24,900
0.4% 2.3%
8.1 9.9
9 days ago 7 days ago
Starlark Rust
Apache License 2.0 Mozilla Public License 2.0
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rules_nodejs

Posts with mentions or reviews of rules_nodejs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-25.
  • Bazel jasmine_test issue
    1 project | /r/bazel | 24 Jul 2023
  • Vercel announces Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022
    Bazel is just the infrastructure to run webpack. You'd need to do some work to make webpack's state be cacheable (I dunno what options and such it has for this, maybe it's already there as an option). But if you're looking at Bazel for JS work you probably just want to use the existing and maintained rules for it: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs It's been a while since I last looked at it but I don't think it has any caching for webpack.
  • Turborepo 1.2: High-performance build system for monorepos
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2022
    > Is Bazel designed in a way that make it impossible to do JS monorepos well?

    Not impossible, but you really need to go all in with it and follow its conventions and practices. See this for the main docs: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs

    One thing in particular that doesn't work well in the bazel world is doing your own stuff outside its BUILD.bazel files. If you're used to just npm install and jam some code in your package.json scripts... that doesn't usually work in the bazel world. If you have a lot of logic or tools in your build you'll likely need to go all in and make bazel starlark rules or macros that recreate that logic. Nothing is impossible, but expect to spend time getting up to speed and getting things working the bazel way.

  • Advice on build scripts and tooling
    2 projects | /r/typescript | 21 Jan 2022
    I am using Bazel with rules_nodejs and Webpack. There's an example here.
  • Help me figure out writing a webapp in Go and JavaScript, with Bazel
    3 projects | /r/bazel | 14 May 2021
    It is probably possible to build Angular with ts_project(), however you'd need to manually manage the compiler (Angular has its own) and tsconfig (Angular needs special options). ts_library() does a lot of this for you, so I think it would probably be easier to use that than to force yourself onto ts_project(). The canonical Angular example uses ts_library() FWIW: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs/tree/master/examples/angular
  • Developing in a Monorepo While Still Using Webpack
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2020
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs
  • On Bazel Support
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Nov 2020
    Nx is widely used in the Angular community. The Angular team at Google had plans to add Bazel support to the Angular CLI for many years, but the plans didn't materialize. The key folks (e.g., Alex Eagle) working on the effort left Google. Google employees no longer maintain rules_nodejs.

turbo

Posts with mentions or reviews of turbo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-14.
  • Supermemory - ChatGPT for your bookmarks
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2024
    Supermemory has three main modules, managed by turborepo:
  • Next.js Shopify eCommerce Starter with Perfect Web Vitals ๐Ÿš€
    2 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2024
    From a structural viewpoint, we use a monorepo (Turborepo) to manage packages, even though we currently have only one Next.js app. We chose this setup because it prepares us for future developments, which will include additional apps. This arrangement helps keep the packages well-separated and self-contained.
  • dev.to wrapped 2023 ๐ŸŽ
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2023
    # src Dockerfile: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/main/examples/with-docker/apps/web/Dockerfile FROM node:18-alpine AS alpine # setup pnpm on the alpine base FROM alpine as base ENV PNPM_HOME="/pnpm" ENV PATH="$PNPM_HOME:$PATH" RUN corepack enable RUN pnpm install turbo --global FROM base AS builder # Check https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/tree/b4117f9333da4138b03a546ec926ef50a31506c3#nodealpine to understand why libc6-compat might be needed. RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat RUN apk update # Set working directory WORKDIR /app COPY . . RUN turbo prune --scope=web --docker # Add lockfile and package.json's of isolated subworkspace FROM base AS installer RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat RUN apk update WORKDIR /app # First install the dependencies (as they change less often) COPY .gitignore .gitignore COPY --from=builder /app/out/json/ . COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-lock.yaml ./pnpm-lock.yaml COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-workspace.yaml ./pnpm-workspace.yaml RUN pnpm install # Build the project COPY --from=builder /app/out/full/ . COPY turbo.json turbo.json RUN turbo run build --filter=web # use alpine as the thinest image FROM alpine AS runner WORKDIR /app # Don't run production as root RUN addgroup --system --gid 1001 nodejs RUN adduser --system --uid 1001 nextjs USER nextjs COPY --from=installer /app/apps/web/next.config.js . COPY --from=installer /app/apps/web/package.json . # Automatically leverage output traces to reduce image size # https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/output-file-tracing COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/standalone ./ COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/static ./apps/web/.next/static COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/public ./apps/web/public CMD node apps/web/server.js
  • .dockerignore being ignored by docker-compose? no space left on device
    3 projects | /r/docker | 5 Dec 2023
    Following this example: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/tree/main/examples/with-docker/apps/web. Except I'm using pnpm. Edit Reddit Codeblocks are horrible and keeps removing all formatting.
  • How to Win Any Hackathon ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿค‘
    7 projects | dev.to | 2 Nov 2023
    The Dockerfile might seem a bit complicated (it is), but the reason for that is mostly just turborepo and the need for good caching. Realistically, you will only need to change the last line, if at all. It is based on this awesome Github Issue.
  • PURISTA: Build with rimraf, esbuild, Turbo & git-cliff
    3 projects | dev.to | 11 Sep 2023
    PURISTA is organized in a monorepo. During the development and build process, Turbo is used to execute different tasks and steps on multiple packages with one command.
  • How I approach and structure Enterprise frontend applications after 4 years of using Next.js
    5 projects | dev.to | 9 Sep 2023
    Turbo repo
  • Vercel Integration and Next.js App Router Support
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2023
    Previously we mapped each Vercel project to a single Supabase project. With this release, we're introducing the concept of project 'Connections'. Supabase projects can have an unlimited number of Vercel Connections. This is especially useful for monorepos using Turborepo.
  • How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2023
    One detail I enjoy from this post is that sometimes you can just call a CLI[0]. It's easy to spend a lot of time figuring out how to expose some Rust/C code as a library for your language, but I like the simplicity of just compiling, shipping the binary and then calling it as a subprocess.

    Yes, there's overhead in starting a new process to "just call a function", but I think this approach is still underutilized.

    [0]: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/c0ee0dea7388d1081512c93...

  • App Router example repos
    6 projects | /r/nextjs | 30 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rules_nodejs and turbo you can also consider the following projects:

jazelle - Incremental, cacheable builds for large Javascript monorepos using Bazel

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web

bazel-skylib - Common useful functions and rules for Bazel

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

rules_docker - Rules for building and handling Docker images with Bazel

create-t3-app - The best way to start a full-stack, typesafe Next.js app

bazel-coverage-report-renderer - Haskell rules for Bazel.

parcel - The zero configuration build tool for the web. ๐Ÿ“ฆ๐Ÿš€

bazel-linting-system - ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’š Experimental system for registering, configuring, and invoking source-code linters in Bazel.

buck2 - Build system, successor to Buck

rules_rust - Rust rules for Bazel

Turbolinks - Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster