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You are my spirit animal. Where did these people come from that decided that front end development needed to be such a house of cards that it takes a masters de

You are my spirit animal. Where did these people come from that decided that front end development needed to be such a house of cards that it takes a masters degree to get a build system successfully set up and working and know how to fix it when it breaks every few days.

Kaze404 6y ago
I personally don't think it's that hard to run `parcel` on the command-line. Front-end tooling is as complicated as any other tooling: as much as you need it to be.
- Nullabillity 6y ago
  Parcel is easy to use (as long as you stay on the golden path), but I have a hard time calling it simple. Automagically installing dependencies that it fails to `require()` seems way out of scope for a bundler. Or managing Rust toolchains. Or a bunch of hard-coded rules that hard-exclude compiling stuff in `node_modules`. Unless they're in symlinks (presumably for Yarn workspaces?). And so on.
- markdown 6y ago
  There's a new one called parcel? WTF? I started with Grunt. Then came Gulp, webpack, and a couple of others. They all do pretty much the same thing, and yet apparently someone has come up with a new one called parcel. Do they do this shit to make nice CV's so they can land FAANG jobs? Everything was easier back when we used to use FTP to upload CSS and JS files to sit alongside index.html or index.php. EDIT: I just googled and the first result is parceljs.org, but that one is blank with a BLM logo on it. Is there another site?
  - deltron3030 6y ago
    Parcel is old news, Snowpack and Vite is where it's at right now (not joking). Or you ditch node.js completely and go with Deno!
    - irrational 6y ago
      Crap. I totally thought you were joking. The insanity must stop.
  - Kaze404 6y ago
    All of those you used previously still work and are arguably more used than Parcel. I only mentioned it because it's entire premise is that those bundlers are too complicated, and Parcel literally just works out of the box, no configuration, for most things. It's neat, and you might enjoy it :)

Kaze404 6y ago

I personally don't think it's that hard to run `parcel` on the command-line. Front-end tooling is as complicated as any other tooling: as much as you need it to be.

Nullabillity 6y ago
Parcel is easy to use (as long as you stay on the golden path), but I have a hard time calling it simple. Automagically installing dependencies that it fails to `require()` seems way out of scope for a bundler. Or managing Rust toolchains. Or a bunch of hard-coded rules that hard-exclude compiling stuff in `node_modules`. Unless they're in symlinks (presumably for Yarn workspaces?). And so on.
markdown 6y ago
There's a new one called parcel? WTF? I started with Grunt. Then came Gulp, webpack, and a couple of others. They all do pretty much the same thing, and yet apparently someone has come up with a new one called parcel. Do they do this shit to make nice CV's so they can land FAANG jobs? Everything was easier back when we used to use FTP to upload CSS and JS files to sit alongside index.html or index.php. EDIT: I just googled and the first result is parceljs.org, but that one is blank with a BLM logo on it. Is there another site?
- deltron3030 6y ago
  Parcel is old news, Snowpack and Vite is where it's at right now (not joking). Or you ditch node.js completely and go with Deno!
  - irrational 6y ago
    Crap. I totally thought you were joking. The insanity must stop.
- Kaze404 6y ago
  All of those you used previously still work and are arguably more used than Parcel. I only mentioned it because it's entire premise is that those bundlers are too complicated, and Parcel literally just works out of the box, no configuration, for most things. It's neat, and you might enjoy it :)