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I spent the day finally adding a modern build system / bundler to my side project, and I chose Parcel. Parcel is really cool! I really wish they'd stop calling
by Jasper_ 8y ago
I spent the day finally adding a modern build system / bundler to my side project, and I chose Parcel. Parcel is really cool! I really wish they'd stop calling it "zero-configuration". It has configuration options (--out-dir, --public-url), there's just no configuration file for them. I really wish they would make one, since it's annoying to have your configuration be hidden in a batch file.
- kabes 8y agoYeah, In my experience Parcel is nice, but Meteor does a better job at offering a zero-config build system than parcel. Because it also provides the node server (which may of course be seen as a drawback to some) it allows to do stuff like multiple bundles for multiple browsers, exact code splitting using dynamic imports etc. with actual zero-config.
- hazza1 8y agoThe planned v2 of parcel will have a configuration file.
- chrismorgan 8y agoWithout investigating, I genuinely can’t tell whether you are joking or not. It seems plausible, save for the fact that would completely undermine the primary marketing message.
- jf- 8y agoBear in mind that this is relative to webpack. A few lines practically is zero compared to a webpack configuration.
- Blaiz0r 8y agoAlthough WebPack 4 has some sane defaults that you can use it zero-config
- eindbaas 8y agoSpoke to one of the creators on a conference and he confirmed it will have some config in V2.
- sgillen 8y agoIronically what was supposed to be a feature is now something that needs to be fixed. I think really the value proposition here is “very little if any setup needed” and making so there was no setup possible may have gone too far.
- h1d 8y agoThere aren't many options you can specify, besides we have enough .json in the root folder.