Tobias Koppers speaks on moving on from webpack.

The Turbopack team and I were excited to announce Turbopack's alpha release at Next.js Conf and we've been even more energized by the progress we've made since then.

Last month, I had the opportunity to take the stage at React Day Berlin to share more about the future plans for Turbopack.

Link to heading Moving beyond webpack

Webpack has been downloaded over three billion times and changed the way we build for the Web. However, webpack was built 10 years ago—with the needs of 10 years ago in mind. Since then, web development has evolved in new ways such that webpack’s architecture can't easily accommodate web engineers' needs today.

Some big changes are needed but it’s hard to make such large shifts while keeping backwards compatibility.…