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Discussion on: Building a basic website with Parcel

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Shamima Hossain

Thanks a lot I was struggling with understand what and why a bundler is used in a project ..your post helped clear out some confusions. The project that i'm working on uses Webpack...do you think parcel works good for projects of medium to large codebase?

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Edited

Parcel is supposedly faster than Webpack, but may sacrifice configurations.

And esbuild is even faster, but much less features.

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Craig Holliday

Pacharapol is spot on.
Parcel is faster and has some configuration (that I have not looked into deeply) but I have not tried it for my larger projects.

Webpack is not going away and is still great to use for any project of medium to large size. Mainly I would stick with anything that is working and try Parcel when you have a chance to experiment without breaking anything.