Building better in the world of build tools!

[@MacoveiVlad]

I guess it is appropriate to share my (limited) experience with bundlers here. I decided to make a small project with Vue and Lumen to play with some new (to me) technologies, build tools among others. Also a major goal was to get as little false errors in VSCode as possible. After switching to TypeScript to help the editor better understand the project the build started failing. I think the problem had something to do with Laravel Mix using a older version of Webpack and not being able to compile the latest TypeScript version. After trying to diagnose and fix this error for several hours I remembered hearing Jake and Surma talking about Parcel and it's ease of use on the HTTP 203 podcast. Switching to Parcel I was able to create a bundle in about two hours. The main difficulty I encountered is that Parcel prefers a html file as the entry point but Lumen does some magic and serves the view from the resources folder, I solved this by passing the main.ts as entry point and routing the output to 'public'. I'm quite pleased with it's ease of use. I guess Parcel had the advantage of learning from the shortcoming of Webpack and other earlier bundlers.

[@swyxTV]

love the animations!

[@ih8tusernam3s]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that had webpack experience.

[@hngbv951]

I think the complexity of build tools should be reduce. I mean It just a way to deal with the lack of structure of Js and web assets itself. In the future, I hope we can do it entirely on the web or at least we have a standard way to build it. Currently, the complexity is inevitable as many people said.

[@eliteeth4n]

I'm curious how the new kind of build tools like snowpack and vite compare to this list.

[@johnfridja]

Sick drum kit @ 5:39

[@DenisTRUFFAUT]

Google Cloud Storage says it is better for throughput if the file name starts with the hash (because sharding). Just saying.

[@MikaelPorttila]

Parcel

[@kmcat]

What are those graphics Adam has on the wall at 11:15

[@yGrumpyStegosaurus]

check out hello.eboy.com/eboy/ i think it's from them

[@BrianBest]

Who remembers Yeomen? good times

[@omar99ize]

Conclusion? Parcel..

[@fzcompany4603]

Great 👏👏😍

[@faosparkNeo]

Complexity is inevitable but dont make it border Chaos. seriously though the plurality of build tools not necessarily a good thing. It is a doubled edged reality

[@petitslipdubled]

Anyone using Vite js?

[@pajeetsingh]

holy christ!