gulp VS parcel

[Gulp]:

I want to log to stdout (the config environment) when a gulp task is running or has run.

With the pre-processors, you can shrink your CSS and increase reuse through variables. In almost all working cases, it will be an improvement above vanilla CSS. There are also implementations now, via PostCSS, that add vendor prefixes for you. The major drawback is, of course, that you have to compile your CSS beforehand; usually done via part of your tooling such as Grunt or Gulp.

As far as build tools go I remember how popular Grunt was when it was first released, then it was Gulp, and Babel came along to help you add new us features and get them working on older browsers.

Gulp

After installing gulp.js via npm, I receive a no command 'gulp' found error when running the gulp command from the same directory it was installed into.

Support this, highly recommend learning SASS https://sass-lang.com/ once you master that checkout Gulp, https://gulpjs.com/ then use them together,

One potential concern with PageCrypt is that it only encrypts an HTML file by default. If you want to encrypt your CSS and JavaScript files, you’ll have to inline them in the HTML file. The same applies to images and any other binary assets; you’ll have to inline them as Data URIs. As with any authentication and authorization solution, you’ll want to determine what’s acceptable for your security requirements. Maybe you’re comfortable with the risk of images leaking but have higher security requirements for your JavaScript. In that case, the HTML page can link to the image files but should contain all your JavaScript. You can use many static site build tools to automate inlining assets in HTML. Webpack, Gulp, or Grunt are just a few that might be useful.

While Browserify was great at bundling scripts together, it was not quite as good at transforming code. Let's say you wanted to compile your CoffeeScript code to JavaScript. You can do this with plain Browserify. However, it is unwieldy and relatively inflexible. To fix this, a new group of tools for the web where born, which focused on running code transforms. These are usually called task runners, and the most popular ones are Grunt and Gulp. Grunt was the first task manager, first released in January of 2012. It allowed for more flexible code transforms when using bundlers like Browserify or without a bundler. However, there were still problems with Grunt, which were solved by Gulp. Gulp is faster, as it uses Node streams instead of temporary files and runs tasks in parallel, as well as allowing for people to use a script instead of a JSON configuration file. This was still not perfect, though, because it was annoying to use two separate tools. This was fixed by Webpack

Gulp - the streaming build system

This problem, however, is solved by the concept of bundling. The process involves using a bundler (intuitive, right?) to combine all our app’s files and assets into a single package that works in the browser. This has led to the development of traditional bundlers such as webpack, Parcel, and Rollup.

I’ve written such logic manually before with a MAKEFILE but I recommend just using something like Parcel. Or even if you decide against that I think it wouldn’t hurt to take note of the default file structure if you read through the docs.

Parcel 2

Maybe Parcel

A couple of weeks ago, we open-sourced Markdoc, the authoring tool powering the Stripe docs. To accompany the launch, we published a blog post showing how to get started using Markdoc with Next.js, using the @markdoc/next.js plugin. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to create your own plugin, using the one I wrote for Parcel, as an example, so that you can use Markdoc with it.

I like using Parcel. https://parceljs.org/

You might keep scrolling and see the section titled "TypeScript ~ Resolution", followed by a promising tsconfig.json with some paths, and think they do actually support it. Well, they don't. This issue opened in 2017 leads me to believe they don't plan to.

minify your JS to speed up your page loads - it's marginal but it's relatively trivial to automate with a deployment tool like Rollup, parcel or grand-daddy Webpack.

I created a basic firefox sidebar extension and now I want to rewrite it with the help of parceljs