Create-React-app-parcel

Dev tools

project scaffolding cli

SHOW HN2018

37points
10comments
#909of 2,155 in 2018
Top 43%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Execution: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Welcomed as a way to reduce webpack use

    From 1 comment
    • Thank you for making the world a little less webpack'ed.
      fiatjaf on HN

Objections

  • Parcel has bugs and rough edges with CSS and PostCSS

    From 2 comments
    • I tried using it with the Pug plugin and found you can't really reference CSS or other pug files, because of a relative path bug. Seems to be a known issue. So that was a…
      newsbinator on HN
    • Ha, nice crap ;) I've been using Parcel for a couple of weeks now (Vue) and there are definitely some rough edges to it - but overall it's been far less cumbersome than Webpack.…
      kaishiro on HN
  • Parcel may be slow compared with other bundlers

    From 1 comment
    • And slow? https://x-team.com/blog/rollup-webpack-parcel-comparison/
      oceanswave on HN

Requests

  • A similar tool for Browserify

    From 1 comment

Questions

  • Does it reach feature parity with create-react-app

    From 1 comment
    • thanks! I think webpack is still great for big apps but i think parcel is really promising so I figured I would try making this. Something I'm unsure about is I ripped out a big…
      swyx on HN

Alternatives named

  • create-react-app

    From 1 comment
    • Hi HN! I made create-react-app-parcel partially as a joke because of the initials, but also as a nice alternative to create-react-app that doesn't use webpack. Here's the feature…
      swyx on HN
  • webpack

    From 2 comments
    • Hi HN! I made create-react-app-parcel partially as a joke because of the initials, but also as a nice alternative to create-react-app that doesn't use webpack. Here's the feature…
      swyx on HN
    • thanks! I think webpack is still great for big apps but i think parcel is really promising so I figured I would try making this. Something I'm unsure about is I ripped out a big…
      swyx on HN

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