The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
The Vite React plugin has added native support for the Rust-based React Compiler, significantly reducing build times for large codebases. Developers can now opt-in to this performance boost, which offers a substantial speed advantage over traditional Babel-based compilation.
Why it matters
Faster build times directly reduce CI costs and improve developer productivity, which is increasingly critical as software projects grow in complexity.
Following the oxc team’s release of official support for the Rust React Compiler on August 4, 2026, we switched our 1,036-file React Router codebase ( Outlyne , a website builder) over to it and saw a ~17.6× speedup on the compiler portion of our build.
The v6.1.0 release of @vitejs/plugin-react brought “experimental native React Compiler support”, which you can opt in to by passing { compiler: true } to the plugin in your Vite config. And for those unable to use the Vite React plugin (e.g. if, like us, you’re using React Router in framework mode), @acusti/vite-plugin-react-compiler is a minimal Vite plugin to React-compile your codebase regardless of the rest of your build pipeline.
Faster Builds = Happier Devs + Cheaper CI The headline feature of this change is the speedup. Per Boshen , the oxc project lead:
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