TL;DR paeckchen (german for small parcel) is an incremental, fast and efficient JavaScript module bundler doing one thing well.
Most JavaScript module bundlers do a lot of things – being plugin pipelines, fulfilling development setup wishes, being development servers and so on. This breadth of features inevitably comes with tradeoffs.
paeckchen on the other hand is designed to do exactly one thing: It bundles your JavaScript modules. This focus allows paeckchen to do its job fast and efficiently.
paeckchen is developed in multiple repositories; This repository is the main entry point and documentation for paeckchen.
| Package | Version | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|
| paeckchen-core |  |
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| paeckchen-cli |  |
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| gulp-paeckchen |  |
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Grab paeckchen via npm:
npm install paeckchen-cli./node_modules/.bin/paeckchen --entry <path/to/your/entrypoint>stay tuned- ES2015 module support
- CommonJS module support
- Basic support for
jsnext:mainfield | Reference - Basic support for
browserfield | Reference - Incremental bundling
- Watch mode
- SourceMaps
- Development Cache
See Roadmap for upcoming stuff.
If you want to compile the source yourself, here are the instructions.
Remember that paeckchen lives in a monorepository, that means a simple npm install does not work and will break the
setup.
git clone https://github.com/paeckchen/paeckchen.git
cd paeckchen
npm run bootstrap
npm testDevelopment of a specific package of paeckchen will be more easy with running two watch tasks for that package.
cd packages/paeckchen-core
# in terminal one
npm run build:watch
# in terminal two
npm run test:watchpaeckchen is built by KnisterPeter and contributors and released under the MIT license.