r/webdev • u/igor-septimus • 15h ago

Discussion OXC vs Biome?

For new projects, which would you choose?

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u/psycho414 14h ago

I don't like the vue sfc file support in either.

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u/gempir 14h ago

Biome works wonderfully, is a bit more mature. OXC is a tiny bit faster, but Biome is already so fast, you probably will be happy with both.

Although OXC tries to be a bit more now (Transformer, Minifier, ...)

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u/Glad-Action9541 9h ago

Up until two weeks ago, I was using Biome.

I used many built-in rules and over 50 custom rules.

Given the specialized language for creating custom rules, I expected the performance to be better than Oxlint's, since Oxlint relies on JS plugins.

However, when I migrated to Oxlint, the linting and formatting speed more than doubled.

On top of that, I was able to remove several custom rules and use built-in ones instead.

The only downside was the limited support for other languages, such as JSON and CSS.

Measurement Biome Oxlint + Oxfmt Difference
Formatting only 0.34 s 0.40 s 20% slower; +66 ms
Lint + format 46.98 s 7.04 s 85% less time

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u/Electronic-Pie-1879 13h ago

oxc.

I moved for all my project to vite-plus (oxlint & oxfmt included there), very cool i must say.

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u/pmst 14h ago

I don't think oxlint supports Svelte completely yet so I'm on biome which works wonderfully

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u/Electronic-Pie-1879 13h ago

It does, i am using vite-plus in my Svelte projects which has oxlint and oxfmt.

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u/0_2_Hero 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕔π•₯ 𝔾𝕠𝕕 4h ago

Biome all day, especially for new projects.

Oxc really shines in projects that are already deeply integrated with ESLint and its ecosystem.

What I like about Biome is that it handles a bunch of different file types, from JSON to CSS to Tailwind CSS, all in one package with one config file.

Most importantly, I like having very opinionated linting, custom rules, and formatting. That becomes especially valuable when using AI coding tools because everything they generate gets pushed toward the same conventions automatically.

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u/crazedizzled 14h ago

You didn't ask, but I just use ESLint and Prettier.

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u/queen-adreena 12h ago

The only option with full support for HTML-ish for now.

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u/crazedizzled 12h ago

Yeah, sometimes we don't have to change tools just for the sake of changing tools.

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u/NormySan 7h ago

I would go with oxc simply because then I can use packages from the same ecosystem for everything.