Turbopack is a Rust-based incremental bundler developed by Vercel and built into Next.js. It is optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript and is designed to provide faster builds for web applications. Turbopack is currently in alpha and supports next dev, but not next build. It can be enabled in Next.js using the turbo flag when running the development server. Turbopack is part of Next.js 13, which also introduces layouts, React Server Components, and streaming in the app directory. The new Image component in Next.js 13 allows for easy image optimization and display without layout shift. Turbopack is the successor to Webpack and is part of Vercel's effort to make web development faster and more efficient.
Citations: [1] https://nextjs.org/docs/architecture/turbopack [2] https://nextjs.org [3] https://nextjs.org/blog/next-13 [4] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/41745 [5] https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/rethink-built-to-be-blazing-fast-next-js-13-turbopack-and-turborepo-c12a000b4158
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