parcel-reporter-auto-exec v1.0.1

parcel-reporter-auto-exec

Executes your bundle after building. Useful for NodeJS development, particularly with Express.

Installation

With npm:

$ npm install --save-dev parcel-reporter-auto-exec

With yarn:

$ yarn add --dev parcel-reporter-auto-exec

Usage

In the .parcelrc file for your project, add this to the list of resolvers. A blank configuration with nothing but this plugin in it would look like:

{
  "extends": "@parcel/config-default",
  "reporters": ["parcel-reporter-auto-exec", "..."]
}

Note that the "..." entry is literal - that tells Parcel to use the rest of its default reporters there. Without that, your project output will likely be quite strange.

Example

After adding that to your parcel config, simply run parcel watch and your code will execute after every successful build.

Why?

Parcel is far and away the easiest way to use modern JS syntax, both on the web and in Node. This plugin is to cover for the lack of a --run option in the watch config, which is (for some reason) still absent after several years of it being requested.