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by erikpukinskis 1600 days ago
Flip a coin, try the first one out, and if anything pops up in a few days that makes you think the other might be more suitable, evaluate the other one.

I recently started experimenting with Snowpack for JS build. I realized it doesn’t do sourcemaps very will so I grabbed Parcel. That worked great but doesn’t have a testing story and Vite has a couple options there. Vite has been good.

It was work to evaluate each of those and switch between them. But not that much work really since I hadn’t committed a huge codebase yet. But it was worth it because now I know why you might choose one over the other.

Granted the “boring” choice would be Webpack.

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I do this. But 1d20 / options. Crit fail means ignore for a week otherwise divide up the space evenly and extra slots mean re-roll. Having the option to punt is useful.
This a good advice for dealing with 'decision paralysis' which can make you waste more time than just trying out the options.
Good advice thanks