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Exposition of Front End Build Systems
Developers write JavaScript; browsers run JavaScript. Fundamentally, no build step is necessary in frontend development.
As frontend codebases grow larger, and as developer ergonomics become more important, shipping JavaScript source code directly to the client leads to two primary problems: Source files can also be unnecessarily large due to long variable names and whitespace indentation characters, increasing bandwidth usage and network loading time. Parcel(2018) is a low-configuration bundler designed to “just work” out of the box, providing sensible default configurations for all steps of the build process and developer tooling needs.
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