[chillfox]

I just spent an entire evening a few days ago trying to make Parcel work for a new project and I just couldn't get it to spit out working js and css.

The project is just a small server rendered web app (using Crystal) that I wanted to add papercss, trix, hotwire/stimulus and hotwire/turbo to (using yarn). Anyway, I never got it to output the css for papercss or the js for trix.

Webpack on the other hand, I had working in about 20min. Yeah, the config is verbose and tedious, but at least there are a lot of great docs/tutorials for just about everything for it.

[fragile_frogs]

IMO where Parcel shines is when you are building client side single page apps or JS/TS libraries.

I could see that it won't be the right tool for a multi page server rendered app.