Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler

Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by dmitriid on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @03:21AM (#17547941)

You can look at it today, it will be mostly the same: hacks, inscrutable configuration, custom overrides for stupid things etc. etc. etc.

I just looked at it a minute ago.

As for the rest you are equally wrong in anything from assuming that webpack 3 made configuration easier to assuming that configuration became easier just because CRA hides all this complexity from us.

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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by egeozcan on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @03:44AM (#17548011)

You don't need to deal with the configuration for 80% of the use cases. If you need something custom, it's a good investment to learn the tool you are depending, and I don't think it's inscrutable: https://webpack.js.org/concepts/

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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by dmitriid on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:37AM (#17548455)

Concepts don't describe how to string together four conflicting plugins together just to get predictable caching, for example.

There's only so many hours in the day. There are better things in life than to fight a build tool.

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Re:Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler by egeozcan on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @06:03AM (#17548546)

You don't have to. Just don't use those plug-ins? If you do need that functionality, it makes sense to "fight the build tool" a bit (or just go through the docs, they really aren't as bad as you say).

I personally always found a solution with Webpack. I find this amazing for a tool which is so young and written in a language without static types.

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