Everything You Need to Know About Parcel: The Blazing Fast Web App Bundler 🚀

Evolution and innovation with zero configuration

Yet other bundler/build tool? Really? Yep — you betcha, evolution and innovation combined brings you Parcel!

What’s So Special About Parcel and Why Should I Care?

While webpack brings a lot of configurability with the cost of complexity — Parcel brings simplicity. Parcel brands itself as “zero configuration”.

Unraveling the above — Parcel has a development server built-in, out of the box. The development server will automatically rebuild your app as you change files and supports hot module replacement for fast development.

What Are the Benefits of Parcel?

Fast bundle times — Parcel is faster than Webpack, Rollup and Browserify.

Parcel benchmarks

Something to consider: Webpack is still awesome and sometimes can be faster.