<story><title>Zwitterion: a web dev server that lets you import anything</title><url>https://github.com/lastmjs/zwitterion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andybak</author><text>Can anyone point me to a workflow where the cognitive load is similar to how it was in the good old days?&lt;p&gt;i.e. some &lt;i&gt;thing&lt;/i&gt; that does everything for me apart from the bit where I write application and presentation code? That mostly just works and doesn&amp;#x27;t require me to understand the whole stack.&lt;p&gt;Because when I switch to other languages&amp;#x2F;environments I can most remain blissfully unaware of the plumbing that keeps the thing running. I learned all I needed to learn about pip and virtualenv in under an hour. My C# editor just lets me edit code and hit play.&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance of getting to this state of nirvana for web development?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumphster</author><text>Parcel (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;parceljs.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;parceljs.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) fits this bill nicely and I use it for all my personal frontend development needs (node and browser targeted). You just add a script tag that points to a js&amp;#x2F;typescript&amp;#x2F;rust&amp;#x2F;(whatever else the author eventually adds) file and run parcel on said html file and you get hot reloading, decent error reporting, bundling, and asset loading via `import` without having to configure a single thing (other than npm installing sass and react and whatever other libraries you want to use))</text></comment>
<story><title>Zwitterion: a web dev server that lets you import anything</title><url>https://github.com/lastmjs/zwitterion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andybak</author><text>Can anyone point me to a workflow where the cognitive load is similar to how it was in the good old days?&lt;p&gt;i.e. some &lt;i&gt;thing&lt;/i&gt; that does everything for me apart from the bit where I write application and presentation code? That mostly just works and doesn&amp;#x27;t require me to understand the whole stack.&lt;p&gt;Because when I switch to other languages&amp;#x2F;environments I can most remain blissfully unaware of the plumbing that keeps the thing running. I learned all I needed to learn about pip and virtualenv in under an hour. My C# editor just lets me edit code and hit play.&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance of getting to this state of nirvana for web development?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duhi88</author><text>Deploying JS (or anything) over the web usually requires a lot of extra considerations. Devs want flexibility in their deployment options, which is why Webpack is so complex.&lt;p&gt;Parcel is probably the closest to zero-config that I&amp;#x27;ve seen. Only drawbacks are when you want to do something &amp;quot;off the rails&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;m guessing this project will be the same.&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you&amp;#x27;re not worried about supporting IE11, you could waive any built step and be absolutely fine. Gzip is more important than minifying.</text></comment>