Parcel

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2018–2021), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Parcel, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Parcel runs npm install automatically and the user cannot turn it off2021-05-21
Builds get stuck unless a hidden --no-cache flag is found, and installs fail with cryptic errors2021-05-20
Build tool becomes unusable when one dependency version doesn't match2021-05-20
Wasted time trying to get hot module reloading working2020-06-08
Not really zero configuration; source map references need manual settings to work2020-01-05
CAPTCHA on tracking page makes checking a parcel maddening2019-02-14
Lack of documentation makes errors frustrating and hard to resolve2018-07-17
Config options live in a batch file, not a visible config file2018-07-17
Stepping outside defaults means hoping a plugin exists and hours of flailing with no fix2018-07-17