React#

How to Use#

Rspack provides two solutions to support React:

• Use Rsbuild: Rsbuild provides out-of-the-box support for React, allowing you to quickly create a React project. See Rsbuild - React for details.
• Manual configure Rspack: You can refer to the current document to manually add configurations for React.

Configure JSX/TSX#

Rspack leverages SWC transformer for supporting JSX and TSX.

You can add builtin:swc-loader loader to support .jsx and .tsx files:

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.jsx$/,
        use: {
          loader: 'builtin:swc-loader',
          options: {
            jsc: {
              parser: {
                syntax: 'ecmascript',
                jsx: true,
              },
            },
          },
        },
        type: 'javascript/auto',
      },
      {
        test: /\.tsx$/,
        use: {
          loader: 'builtin:swc-loader',
          options: {
            jsc: {
              parser: {
                syntax: 'typescript',
                tsx: true,
              },
            },
          },
        },
        type: 'javascript/auto',
      },
    ],
  },
};

Refer to builtin:swc-loader for detailed configurations.

Fast Refresh#

There are currently two ways to enable React Fast Refresh in Rspack:

First you need to install @rspack/plugin-react-refresh to support React Fast Refresh.

npm add @rspack/plugin-react-refresh react-refresh -D

Enabling React Fast Refresh functionality primarily involves two aspects: code injection and code transformation.

• Code injection will inject some code from the react-refresh package, as well as some custom runtime code, all of which are integrated in the @rspack/plugin-react-refresh plugin and can be injected through this plugin.
• Code transformation can be added through loaders, such as jsc.transform.react.refresh for swc-loader or the react-refresh/babel for babel-loader.

const ReactRefreshPlugin = require('@rspack/plugin-react-refresh');
const isDev = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development';

module.exports = {
  // ...
  mode: isDev ? 'development' : 'production',
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.jsx$/,
        use: {
          loader: 'builtin:swc-loader',
          options: {
            jsc: {
              parser: {
                syntax: 'ecmascript',
                jsx: true,
              },
              transform: {
                react: {
                  development: isDev,
                  refresh: isDev,
                },
              },
            },
          },
        },
      },
    ],
  },
  plugins: [isDev && new ReactRefreshPlugin()].filter(Boolean),
};

Compared to the previous approach, this method decouples the React Fast Refresh code injection logic from the transformation logic. The code injection logic is handled uniformly by the @rspack/plugin-react-refresh plugin, while the code transformation is handled by loaders. This means that this plugin can be used in conjunction with builtin:swc-loader, swc-loader, or babel-loader:

• For usage with builtin:swc-loader, you can refer to the example at examples/react-refresh, When using with swc-loader, simply replace builtin:swc-loader with swc-loader.
• For usage with babel-loader, you can refer to the example at examples/react-refresh-babel-loader

React Compiler#

React Compiler is an experimental compiler introduced in React 19 that can automatically optimize your React code.

Before you start using React Compiler, it's recommended to read the React Compiler documentation to understand the functionality, current state, and usage of the React Compiler.

How to use#

The steps to use React Compiler in Rspack:

1. Upgrade versions of react and react-dom to 19. If you are unable to upgrade, you can install the extra react-compiler-runtime package which will allow the compiled code to run on versions prior to 19.
2. React Compiler currently only provides a Babel plugin, you need to install:

• @babel/core
• babel-loader
• babel-plugin-react-compiler
• @babel/plugin-syntax-jsx

3. Register babel-loader in your Rspack config file:

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        use: [
          {
            loader: 'builtin:swc-loader',
            options: {
              // SWC options for JS
            },
          },
        ],
      },
      {
        test: /\.jsx$/,
        use: [
          {
            loader: 'builtin:swc-loader',
            options: {
              // SWC options for JSX
            },
          },
          { loader: 'babel-loader' },
        ],
      },
    ],
  },
};

4. Create a babel.config.js and configure the plugins:

const ReactCompilerConfig = {
  /* ... */
};

module.exports = function () {
  return {
    plugins: [
      ['babel-plugin-react-compiler', ReactCompilerConfig], // must run first!
      '@babel/plugin-syntax-jsx',
    ],
  };
};

For React 17 and 18 projects, you need to install react-compiler-runtime and specify the target:

const ReactCompilerConfig = {
  target: '18', // '17' | '18' | '19'
};

Examples#

You can refer to the following example projects:

• Rspack + React Compiler
• Rspack + React Compiler + TypeScript

Integrating SVGR#

SVGR is an universal tool for transforming Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files into React components.

The usage of SVGR with Rspack is exactly the same as with Webpack.

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.svg$/i,
        issuer: /\.[jt]sx?$/,
        use: ['@svgr/webpack'],
      },
    ],
  },
};

For detailed usage of SVGR, please refer to SVGR Documentation - webpack.