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Parcel vs Webpacker: What are the differences?
Parcel: 📦🚀 A fast, zero configuration web application bundler. Parcel is a web application bundler, differentiated by its developer experience. It offers blazing fast performance utilizing multicore processing, and requires zero configuration; Webpacker: Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails (by Rails). Webpacker makes it easy to use the JavaScript preprocessor and bundler Webpack to manage application-like JavaScript in Rails. It coexists with the asset pipeline, as the purpose is only to use Webpack for app-like JavaScript, not images, css, or even JavaScript Sprinkles (that all continues to live in app/assets).
Parcel and Webpacker belong to "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category of the tech stack.
Parcel and Webpacker are both open source tools. Parcel with 32.3K GitHub stars and 1.47K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Webpacker with 4.29K GitHub stars and 893 GitHub forks.
Ratio, tigerbrokers, and Driffle are some of the popular companies that use Parcel, whereas Webpacker is used by Cambridge Brain Sciences, JetThoughts LLC, and Gratify Commerce. Parcel has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 9 developers stacks; compared to Webpacker, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Parcel
- Zero configuration10
- Built-in dev server with livereload8
Pros of Webpacker
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Cons of Parcel
- Lack of documentation3