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Jan 13, 2025 · Fundamentals

Build Systems and Bundlers: Concepts, Rebuilders, Schedulers, and Incremental Compilation

This article introduces the theory of build systems from the paper “Build Systems à la Carte”, explains core concepts such as tasks, inputs, outputs, info, store, and build, and shows how modern bundlers like Webpack, Turbopack, Vite and Rspack can be understood as specific combinations of rebuilder and scheduler strategies to achieve incremental compilation, minimality and early cutoff.