How to best handle static (e.g. _locales) files

Great project! 👍

I was wondering how to best handle static files that are not referenced anywhere.

E.g. the _locales folder. Currently I use a package.json subtask to specifically copy over some files to the build directory.

Parcel doesn’t seem to support that currently: https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/1411

What’s your take on this, how would you handle e.g. _locales files currently? 😃

Best

[berstend]

Agreed, seems like _locales is the only case where such specific workaround is required - would be great to support this as it’s quite commonly used.

Unfortunately I have to finish a project right now, otherwise I’d give the implementation a shot 😃

For now my workaround using npm scripts works sufficiently (using cpx):

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "export NODE_ENV=development && yarn run build:clean && yarn run locales:copy && parcel build --no-minify src/manifest.json -d build/${NODE_ENV}/",
    "build:production": "export NODE_ENV=production && yarn run build:clean && yarn run locales:copy && parcel build --no-source-maps --no-cache src/manifest.json -d build/${NODE_ENV}/",
    "build:clean": "rimraf build/${NODE_ENV}/",
    "watch": "export NODE_ENV=development && yarn run build:clean && yarn run locales:copy && parcel watch src/manifest.json -d build/${NODE_ENV}/",
    "locales:copy": "cpx 'src/_locales/**/*.json' build/${NODE_ENV}/_locales/",
  }
}

I really like the project so I’ll definitely plan to contribute in the future. 😃

[kevincharm]

No worries, thanks a lot for testing it @berstend 😃 Released with v1.3.1