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Can you elaborate why? I tried it in the past (maybe a year ago) and just 2 weeks ago, too. The experience I had was aweful. Pretty much nothing was working. M

Can you elaborate why? I tried it in the past (maybe a year ago) and just 2 weeks ago, too. The experience I had was aweful. Pretty much nothing was working. Maybe I am too biased from Parcel and I got disappointed when even simple things such as starting with an HTML file as root module does not work, or when importing CSS does not work, or when using TypeScript does not work. What I particularly disliked is that it cannot even cope with the standard stuff that I throw at it. CommonJS modules (only the standard...)? You need a plugin. Not only that: I had to specify what modules I wanted to include and what they export. Do you know a way around all these wholes or is your solution always pretty much self-contained?

progx 7y ago
I used wepback before, and on every project it horrible to configre Webpack. A waste of time for me. Tried some other packager and ended with Parcel and Rollup. I like Rollup, i can not say why i prefer it over parcel. Both are better, easier, faster then webpack.
- FlorianRappl 7y ago
  Thanks - yeah I fully agree!
zamalek 7y ago
The one killer feature of rollup (which parcel also gets right) is sensible and usable sourcemaps. Webpack does not deal with using Vue SFCs and TS very well, you end up with 4-5 [almost empty] files in the browser per file on-disk and often the file with the actual source is missing. You have to hunt down the correct file and pray that it is their every time you wish to set a breakpoint. I've burned days in the past trying to figure out a workaround for the unusability of sourcemaps in Webpack. Webpack has tons of knobs and levers to configure sourcemaps, but none that do what I assume most people want (a single sourcemapped file in the browser). Parcel and Rollup do the right thing 90% of the time (requiring only tweaking the path for the 10% remainder) with a single boolean configuration value.

progx 7y ago

I used wepback before, and on every project it horrible to configre Webpack. A waste of time for me. Tried some other packager and ended with Parcel and Rollup. I like Rollup, i can not say why i prefer it over parcel. Both are better, easier, faster then webpack.

FlorianRappl 7y ago
Thanks - yeah I fully agree!

zamalek 7y ago

The one killer feature of rollup (which parcel also gets right) is sensible and usable sourcemaps. Webpack does not deal with using Vue SFCs and TS very well, you end up with 4-5 [almost empty] files in the browser per file on-disk and often the file with the actual source is missing. You have to hunt down the correct file and pray that it is their every time you wish to set a breakpoint. I've burned days in the past trying to figure out a workaround for the unusability of sourcemaps in Webpack. Webpack has tons of knobs and levers to configure sourcemaps, but none that do what I assume most people want (a single sourcemapped file in the browser). Parcel and Rollup do the right thing 90% of the time (requiring only tweaking the path for the 10% remainder) with a single boolean configuration value.