You can build Next.js, including all type definitions and packages, with:
pnpm build
Tip
Next.js uses taskr to parallelize the build tasks.
The tasks can be found in the taskfile.js
file, and each task name refers to the name of the function to execute.
For example, taskr release
will execute the release()
function in the taskfile.js
file.
The build process consists of the three main tasks:
- Compile the TypeScript sources with SWC
- Bundle the project with Webpack
- Generate the type definitions
By default, the latest canary of the next-swc
binaries will be installed and used to compile the TypeScript sources of the project. These sources are meant to be built inside the packages/next/dist/...
directory. The outputs will include compiled JavaScript files and source maps.
Based on the outputs of the compilation, the project is then bundled with Webpack. The configuration can be found in the next-runtime.webpack-config.js
file.
The type definitions are generated using the TypeScript tsc
compiler. You can build them separately with pnpm types
. The tsconfig.build.json
is used which extends the base tsconfig.json
but excludes test files and other unneeded type definitions.
If you are actively working on Rust code or you need to test out the most recent Rust code that hasn't been published as a canary yet, you can install Rust and run pnpm swc-build-native
.
If you want to test out the wasm build locally, you will need to install wasm-pack. Run pnpm --filter=@next/swc build-wasm --target <wasm_target>
to build and node ./scripts/setup-wasm.mjs
to copy it into your node_modules
. Run next with NODE_OPTIONS='--no-addons'
to force it to use the wasm binary.
If you need to clean the project for any reason, use pnpm clean
.