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A comment on Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler.

Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by Jasper_ on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:39AM (#17547780)
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.
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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by sgillen on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:54AM (#17548291)
Ironically 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.

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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by hazza1 on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:02AM (#17548087)
The planned v2 of parcel will have a configuration file.
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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by chrismorgan on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:04AM (#17548095)
Without 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.
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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by jf- on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:27AM (#17548184)
Bear in mind that this is relative to webpack. A few lines practically is zero compared to a webpack configuration.
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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by Blaiz0r on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:43AM (#17548246)
Although WebPack 4 has some sane defaults that you can use it zero-config
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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by eindbaas on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:36AM (#17548216)
Spoke to one of the creators on a conference and he confirmed it will have some config in V2.
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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by h1d on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:10AM (#17548354)
There aren't many options you can specify, besides we have enough .json in the root folder.
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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by kabes on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @03:57AM (#17548064)
Yeah, 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.
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