parcel VS snowpack

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

Parcel

Parcel didn't quite do zero-config bundling, and there are some annoying things, like it's impossible to turn off hashing (--no-content-hash just replaces content hashes with static hashes), but that's still a big improvement over other JavaScript bundlers.

Too many css and script links in HTML file - This may cause too many http requests being made in order to load necessary style sheets and JavaScript code. This can be handled by bundling multiple css files and js files into single ones. Doing it manually might take forever to do. This is why I started to get interested into JavaScript bundlers. The most popular ones are Webpack, Parcel, and my latest favorite pick - Vite.

Astro began life with Snowpack as its asset pipeline, which makes perfect sense given that the two projects came originally from the same development team. However, the developers soon reached the decision that Astro would be a better product if it used the impressive Vite package, instead. While the resulting switchover was a breaking change with a capital BC when it occurred, the capabilities it unlocked have proven the exceptional wisdom of this choice.