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I switched from Parcel to Webpack after lots of bugs and issues. Parcel 1 had lots of tiny things that annoyed me (source maps never worked, it broke a lot when pulling from git), and the team is no longer fixing Parcel 1 issues. However, Parcel 2 literally didn't work for me:

https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/3690 https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/3691 https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/3696

So I switched to webpack. The configuration was miserable, but after I got it working, it seems to be OK. It's actually faster than Parcel, and a lot more stable.

https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/master/webpac...

Not to mention that I had a few issues with Parcel trying to be "too smart" for me. It would automatically try to hot reload, but my app wasn't designed for that, so it would break hard rather. The workaround was throwing an Error in the hot reload handler.



I'm hesitant to try parcel, and generally use webpack w/ laravel-mix, even in node projects simply because it's a pretty decent 'starting' point for webpack config, and I can override the config anyway I want when I need to which isn't too often.




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