⚡ Ionify

A web infrastructure intelligence engine

Ionify unifies development and production workflows into one persistent pipeline: dependency graph + content-addressable cache + hybrid transforms + analysis-ready architecture.

What is Ionify?

Ionify is a web infrastructure intelligence engine.

Instead of treating development and production as separate tools, Ionify runs the entire lifecycle through a single persistent engine — from file watching and resolution to transformation, caching, and bundling.

At its core, Ionify maintains a long-lived dependency graph and a content-addressable cache that survive across runs. This allows the engine to understand how projects evolve over time, not just how they build once.

Ionify combines a high-performance native core with a hybrid transformation strategy:

• OXC as the primary engine for parsing and transformation
• SWC as a fallback to ensure compatibility and resilience

This unified and persistent design enables something traditional tooling cannot:
infrastructure-level insight into the build process itself — opening the door to analysis, optimization, and future AI-assisted recommendations.

Why This Matters

What Ionify Unifies

Ionify unifies what is traditionally fragmented across multiple tools:

• Development server and production bundling
• Resolution logic and dependency semantics
• Transformation and caching strategies
• Performance characteristics across environments

By running everything through the same engine, Ionify eliminates an entire class of inconsistencies that appear when dev and build pipelines diverge.

For Developers

• Fewer "works in dev, breaks in build" surprises — same pipeline in both modes
• Faster iteration — persistent graph and cache reuse across runs
• Deterministic behavior — consistent across environments
• Foundation for intelligent tooling — infrastructure that can reason about builds, not just execute them

Ionify is designed to be the layer below frameworks and plugins — the infrastructure they can rely on.

Architecture

Pipeline Overview

Source Files
    ↓
  Resolver
    ↓
Persistent Dependency Graph (native)
    ↓
Transform Engine (OXC/SWC hybrid)
    ↓
Content-Addressable Store (.ionify/cas/versionHash/moduleHash/...)
    ↓
Dev Server / Bundler

Hybrid Transformation Engine

Ionify uses a hybrid transformation strategy by design.

OXC is used as the primary engine for parsing and transformation, optimized for performance and modern JavaScript syntax. SWC acts as a fallback layer to ensure robustness and compatibility across edge cases and evolving ecosystems.

This approach allows Ionify to remain framework-agnostic while balancing speed, correctness, and long-term maintainability.

Storage

• Graph persistence — native Rust implementation
• Transformed outputs — stored in version-isolated CAS
• Automatic invalidation — via configuration hash

Why This Enables Intelligence

Because Ionify persists the dependency graph and transformed outputs, the engine can observe patterns over time:

• Which modules change frequently
• Which transformations are expensive
• How dependency structure affects rebuild cost

This data is the basis for future analyzer tooling and AI-assisted optimization.

Quick Start

Installation

pnpm add -D ionify

Minimal Configuration

Create ionify.config.ts:

export default {
  entry: "/src/main.ts",
  outDir: "dist",
};

Development Server

pnpm ionify dev

Production Build

pnpm ionify build

Project Status

Core engine: Stable and production-ready
Unified dev + build pipeline: Implemented
Persistent graph and CAS: In place
Dependency pipeline: Stabilization in progress
Plugin system: Temporarily paused
Analyzer and AI layers: Planned on top of the unified engine

Key Features

Current

• Persistent Graph Engine — dependency graph saved to disk and reused across runs
• Unified Pipeline — dev and production share the same core logic
• Content Addressable Cache (CAS) — version-isolated, deterministic caching
• Rust-Powered Performance — native core for parsing, transformation, and bundling
• Hybrid Transform Strategy — OXC primary, SWC fallback
• Graph-based HMR — intelligent hot module replacement based on dependency structure

Planned

• Analysis Dashboard — visualize builds, cache hits, and dependency hot paths
• AI-Assisted Optimization — auto-tune splits, targets, and bundle strategies
• Monorepo Support — native workspace handling
• Remote Build Cache — team-level caching infrastructure

Language Stack

| Component | Technology | | ----------------------- | ------------------- | | Core Engine | Rust | | CLI / SDK / Plugin API | TypeScript | | Graph Persistence | Native (sled/SQLite)| | Primary Parser | OXC | | Fallback Parser | SWC | | Future Analyzer UI | React + TypeScript |

Roadmap

1. ✅ Core Engine — parser, graph, CAS, dev server
2. ✅ Unified Pipeline — same engine for dev and production
3. ✅ Persistent Graph + Cache — version-isolated storage
4. 🔄 Dependency Pipeline Stabilization — robust node_modules handling
5. ⏸️ Plugin System — paused for pipeline stabilization
6. 📋 Analyzer UI + Insights — build visualization and metrics
7. 📋 AI Optimization Engine — intelligent build recommendations
8. 📋 Monorepo / Remote Cache — team collaboration features

Philosophy

Ionify is designed to be the infrastructure layer that frameworks and plugins rely on — not another framework itself.

By unifying the build pipeline and persisting the dependency graph, Ionify creates a foundation for:

• Smarter tooling that understands your project over time
• Analysis and optimization based on real build patterns
• Future AI-assisted recommendations grounded in actual data

Links

• Website: ionify.cloud
• GitHub: github.com/ionifyjs/ionify
• Issues: github.com/ionifyjs/ionify/issues
• Contact: [email protected]

License

MIT © Khaled Salem