Thanks for the article, gave it a bash and it worked as expected. The immediate benefits are not that clear though. The parcel index.html/js example on their site results in a fair bit of pa.js boilerplate.
I wonder will parcel also fork into more than one useful dependency to have? Happens often enough with these tools.
parcel-bundler requires
{
"@babel/code-frame": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/core": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/generator": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/parser": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/plugin-transform-flow-strip-types": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/preset-env": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/runtime": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/template": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/traverse": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@babel/types": "^7.0.0 <7.4.0",
"@iarna/toml": "^2.2.0",
"@parcel/fs": "^1.11.0",
"@parcel/logger": "^1.11.0",
"@parcel/utils": "^1.11.0",
"@parcel/watcher": "^1.12.0",
"@parcel/workers": "^1.11.0",
"ansi-to-html": "^0.6.4",
"babylon-walk": "^1.0.2",
"browserslist": "^4.1.0",
"chalk": "^2.1.0",
"clone": "^2.1.1",
"command-exists": "^1.2.6",
"commander": "^2.11.0",
"cross-spawn": "^6.0.4",
"css-modules-loader-core": "^1.1.0",
"cssnano": "^4.0.0",
"deasync": "^0.1.14",
"dotenv": "^5.0.0",
"dotenv-expand": "^4.2.0",
"fast-glob": "^2.2.2",
"filesize": "^3.6.0",
"get-port": "^3.2.0",
"htmlnano": "^0.2.2",
"is-glob": "^4.0.0",
"is-url": "^1.2.2",
"js-yaml": "^3.10.0",
"json5": "^1.0.1",
"micromatch": "^3.0.4",
"mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
"node-forge": "^0.7.1",
"node-libs-browser": "^2.0.0",
"opn": "^5.1.0",
"postcss": "^7.0.11",
"postcss-value-parser": "^3.3.1",
"posthtml": "^0.11.2",
"posthtml-parser": "^0.4.0",
"posthtml-render": "^1.1.3",
"resolve": "^1.4.0",
"semver": "^5.4.1",
"serialize-to-js": "^1.1.1",
"serve-static": "^1.12.4",
"source-map": "0.6.1",
"terser": "^3.7.3",
"v8-compile-cache": "^2.0.0",
"ws": "^5.1.1"
}