Paul ArmstrongNov 28, 2022

I’ve been thinking back to my time as a core member of the original team that built the “blue bird” web app. I learned a great many lessons there and thinking through them: How would I rebuild a similar web app today, like a Mastodon frontend or an Activity Pub web client?

https://paularmstrong.dev/blog/2022/11/28/lessons-learned-how-i-would-rebuild-twitter-today/

Lessons learned: how I’d rebuild a social web app like Twitter today • Paul Armstrong

I’ve been thinking back to my time as a core member of the original team that built the Twitter web app. I learned a great many lessons there and thinking through them: How would I rebuild something similar to the Twitter web app today, like a Mastodon or Activity Pub web client?

Show threadJamie Kyle 🏳️‍🌈Nov 29, 2022
@paularmstrong I highly recommend Parcel as an alternative to both Vite and Turbopack. Parcel is a much more viable replacement for Webpack today. Turbopack in particular is very half-baked for even simple use cases
Show threadPaul ArmstrongNov 29, 2022
@jamiebuilds I’ve used it but there wasn’t a very strong server-side story when I did. Has it evolved much in the past year?
Show threadJamie Kyle 🏳️‍🌈Nov 29, 2022
@paularmstrong Parcel v2 reached stable just a little over a year ago, it has improved in a lot of ways since. What exactly was bad though, I just threw this together and it's working well:
Show threadPaul Armstrong
@jamiebuilds it’s been a while. I’ll have to try it again!
Nov 29, 2022 at 3:03amWeb
Show threadPaul ArmstrongNov 29, 2022
@jamiebuilds I did use it for my wedding RSVP website that I built on top of firebase. Worked great for that, but I didn’t go too much further than two static pages with client side rendering only. https://paularmstrong.dev/blog/2022/06/04/custom-wedding-website-part-1/
Creating a modern wedding website in 2022 Part 1: Choosing the tools • Paul Armstrong

This part of the modern wedding website series will cover tools chosen to satisfy requirements of creating a modern wedding website in 2022.

Show threadJamie Kyle 🏳️‍🌈Nov 29, 2022
@paularmstrong I've used it for some larger apps and it's been excellent. When things don't work the way I want them to there tends to be a very straightforward answer. It works a bit different than other tools in that it leaves other tools' config files as their source of truth and not having layers of config indirection is nice
Show threadPaul ArmstrongNov 29, 2022

@jamiebuilds Maybe the problem I had is that the documentation seems to hide the fact that I can point it at anything other than an HTML file.

It’s almost like just an asterisk/extra note that “oh yeah I guess you could also do this”: https://parceljs.org/features/targets/#package.json%23targets.*.source

Targets

Parcel can compile your source code in multiple different ways simultaneously. These are called targets. For example, you could have a “modern” target that targets newer browsers and a “legacy” target for older browsers.