Make the web (development) faster.

Supporting swc

swc is a community-driven project, and is maintained by a group of volunteers. If you'd like to help support the future of the project, please consider:

• Giving developer time on the project. (Message us on Slack for guidance!)
• Giving funds by becoming a sponsor (see below)! Slackin for swc

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Documentation

Check out the documentation in the website.

Features

Parsers

• es2019
• jsx
• typescript

Transforms

New generation javascript to old-days javascript.

• es3

  • member-expression-literals
  • property-literals
  • reserved-words

• es5

  • property-mutators

• es2015

  • arrow-functions
  • block-scoped-functions
  • block-scoping
  • classes
  • computed-properties
  • destructuring
  • duplicate-keys
  • for-of
  • function-name
  • instanceof
  • literals
  • new-target
  • object-super
  • parameters
  • shorthand-properties
  • spread
  • sticky regex (y flag)
  • template-literals
    • invalid escape sequences inside tagged template literals. (aka es2018)
  • typeof-symbol
  • unicode-regex

• es2016

  • exponentiation-operator

• es2017

  • async-to-generator

• es2018

  • async-generator-functions
  • dotall-regex
  • object-rest-spread
    • Using symbol as a key
  • optional-catch-binding
  • unicode-property-regex

• es2019 (stage 4)

• optional catch binding

• big int literal

• stage 3

• class fields

• numeric separator

• nullish coalescing

• stage 2

• decorators

• react

  • jsx

• preset-env

  • entry with core-js@2/3
  • usage with core-js@2/3 It's implemented, but it's not perfect.

Performance

The lower bound of the speedup compared to babel is 18. The benchmarks were run on Macbook pro, dual core, 2.3GHz Intel Core i5, 16 GB ram

	performance
swc (es3)	761 ops/sec ±0.23% (89 runs sampled)
swc (es2015)	800 ops/sec ±1.02% (87 runs sampled)
swc (es2016)	2,123 ops/sec ±0.84% (88 runs sampled)
swc (es2017)	2,131 ops/sec ±1.13% (90 runs sampled)
swc (es2018)	2,981 ops/sec ±0.25% (90 runs sampled)
swc-optimize (es3)	712 ops/sec ±0.21% (86 runs sampled)
babel	41.75 ops/sec ±8.07% (56 runs sampled)

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. You may also find the architecture documentation useful (ARCHITECTURE.md).

License

swc is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0).

See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.