formatjs / react-intl transformer plugin

[renchap]

react-intl is a very popular I18n localisation library.

It includes a Babel plugin for removing parts of the message descriptors to save bytes in the finished bundle. This plugin has also been ported to SWC

It would be very nice to have a similar one for oxc, so we can get rid of Babel entirely.

This could be a built-in plugin similar to styled-components, but it is not very complex and could be a good candidate for the upcoming JS plugin API?

[overlookmotel]

Just a side note: JS plugins are coming soon to the linter. They will eventually come to transformer too, but that's some time off I'm afraid.

It's rather more complicated than you might think. Problem is moving ASTs between Rust and JS without absolutely murdering performance. We have a novel solution to this problem which cuts the overhead almost to zero, but it's complicated. So we're building it out in linter first, which is easier because the AST only has to be transferred in one direction (Rust to JS) and then we'll extend it to transformer later on (Rust -> JS -> Rust).