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webpack vs toast
webpack has 65,971 GitHub stars, 9,485 forks, 123 open issues and last shipped yesterday. toast has 1,635 stars, 39 forks, 9 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. webpack leads on adoption by 3,935% (65,971 vs 1,635 stars). webpack is written in JavaScript under MIT; toast is written in Rust under MIT. webpack has attracted 14% as many forks as stars, toast 2%. webpack was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (build-tool), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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Side by side
| webpack | toast | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 66K | ★ 1.6K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | Rust |
| Last push | 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-25 |
| Forks | ⑂ 9.5K | ⑂ 39 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick webpack if
- You weight community size — 66K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick toast if
- You want the toast feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You evaluated both and toast fits your workflow better
About webpack
[![npm][npm]][npm url] [![node][node]][node url] [![builds1][builds1]][builds1 url] [![dependency review][dependency review]][dependency review url] [![coverage][cover]][cover url] [![PR's welcome][prs]][prs url] webpack Webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset. Table of Contents Install Introduction Concepts Contributing Support Current project members TSC (Technical Steering Committee) Core Collaborators Sponsoring Premium Partners Gold Sponsors Silver…
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About toast
Toast 🥂 Toast is a tool for containerizing your workflows such as building and testing a project. You define tasks in a YAML file called a toastfile , and Toast runs them in a container based on a Docker image of your choosing. What constitutes a "task" is up to you: tasks can install system packages, compile an application, run a test suite, or even serve web pages. Tasks can depend on other tasks, so Toast can be understood as a high level containerized build system. Here's the toastfile for the example shown above: Toast caches each task by committing the container to an image. The image is tagged with a…
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Frequently asked questions
Is webpack or toast more popular?
webpack has 65,971 GitHub stars and toast has 1,635. webpack has the larger community by that measure.
Are webpack and toast free?
Both are open source. webpack is licensed under MIT and toast under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between webpack and toast?
webpack is written in JavaScript and toast in Rust. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, webpack or toast?
Choose webpack if you want the larger community (65,971 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose toast if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.