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parcel-bundler / parcel

parcel

The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀

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2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1

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kangabru·Jul 22, 2020

Yeah I had the same issue and have been following the Typescript thread on GH for a while now [1]. But I agree, I actually like using untyped JS for development. What I do now is throw a "tsc --noEmit" call before tests/prod build to type everything before parcel runs. Works well enough. [1] https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/4022

In Svelte and TypeScript

e12e·Jul 1, 2020

A little npm actually goes quite a long way: https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool... https://github.com/keithamus/npm-scripts-example Although you should probably prefer yarn these days (concepts should mostly transfer over). As for tranformations/transpiling/minifying... You could use webpack - it is popular, but quite complex. I've found this a decent introduction to understand how it works: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/creating-a-production-read... The good part about going that route, is that is quite explicit... You might get away with throwing out explicit in favour of convention - by using parcel instead: https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel (looks like gh readme is currently best entry point for 2.0 docs).

In JavaScript for Impatient Programmers

rikroots·Jul 1, 2020

> Webpack and other module bundlers are just tools to automate things like transpiling, code-transformation, bundle-splitting, minification which are not all that essential actually. I wish this were true. My experience to illustrate the point: I have a Javascript library[1] for working with the HTML5 <canvas> element. It's a nice library (in my opinion) but it is a bit on the large side. Also, I developed it as something that can be added to a website in the old-fashioned way, using a <script> tag. However, most non-personal websites these days are built with toolchains which include code bundlers like Webpack (many React sites), Rollup (Svelte sites), Packet etc. Developers working on those sites don't want to add a <script> tag to their HTML file; they want all their Javascript npm-included or yarn-added so it can be shaken and bundled

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and tied up in ribbons and bows for delivery to the user's browser or device. So I did the work of turning my library into an NPM package and tried building a toy project with a toolchain. The failure was embarrassing. It turns out that I was using a JS feature in my library code which isn't supported by any of the main bundlers (`import.meta`, for the curious[2]. I raised a ticket with one of the bundlers to see if they could add support in a future release[3] but it seems the feature is too obscure to care about.) I sorted the problem by rewriting my library (in a very unsatisfactory, ugly way) to get bundlers to bundle the code. Now people can add my library to their React/Svelte/whatever project. But the whole learning episode left a bad taste in my mouth: Being tripped up by Vanilla JS is one thing; having your work trashed by the bundlers in the toolchain is just nasty! [1] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/ [2] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... [3] - https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/3269

In JavaScript for Impatient Programmers

andraaspar·Jan 8, 2020

Parcel is broken on Windows. Since 2018. https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/1990

In Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler

devongovett·Jan 5, 2020

Coming in Parcel 2! :) https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/blob/v2/packages/co...

In Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler

Jasper_·Jan 5, 2020

I switched from Parcel to Webpack after lots of bugs and issues. Parcel 1 had lots of tiny things that annoyed me (source maps never worked, it broke a lot when pulling from git), and the team is no longer fixing Parcel 1 issues. However, Parcel 2 literally didn't work for me: https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/3690 https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/3691 https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/3696 So I switched to webpack. The configuration was miserable, but after I got it working, it seems to be OK. It's actually faster than Parcel, and a lot more stable. https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/master/webpac... Not to mention that I had a few issues with Parcel trying to be "too smart" for me. It would automatically try to hot reload, but my app wasn't designed for that, so it would break hard

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rather. The workaround was throwing an Error in the hot reload handler.

In Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler

eerrt·Jan 5, 2020

Parcel has support for React Fast Refresh!! https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/pull/3654

In Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler

eerrt·Jan 5, 2020

After a while, they switched to watching directories instead of files, which seems to solve the issue you describe of too many watched files. https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/pull/1665

In Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler

pull_my_finger·Jan 5, 2020

I like parcel a lot, but one issue I've always had is that it watches your node_modules folder. The devs kind of pawned it off as a "feature not a bug"[1], but it results in tons of warnings etc related to watching too many files. I've since started using a symbolic link to the actual node_modules folder, but it's still just 1 extra hurdle that would be nice to not have. [1]: https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/1557#issueco...

In Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler