The Turbopack vision
Jan 11, 2023

Summary
This post details the vision behind Turbopack, explaining its motivation to move beyond the limitations of Webpack. It highlights the architectural approach of combining a 'Turbo engine' for core tasks like caching and incremental builds with Turbopack itself for bundling various assets. The post emphasizes the goal of achieving millisecond hot reloads and production builds in seconds through Turborepo-like Remote Caching. It also announces new alpha features in Next.js 13.1, including support for PostCSS, next/image, next/font, and next.config.js, and outlines future plans for supporting other frameworks and improving developer insights.