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HTML comments being removed on build

See original GitHub issue

🐛 bug report

🎛 Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)

parcel build ./index.html --out-dir dist/static --public-url /static

🤔 Expected Behavior

HTML comments should stay inside the outputed index.html file.

😯 Current Behavior

All comments are removed from this file.

💁 Possible Solution

Not so much a solution but a workaround. Could use plain strings instead of comments.

🔦 Context

I’m trying to server-side render a ReactJS application which I would replace HTML comment with the server-generated HTML. I realise I could use a string like ‘replace-me’ but it seems a hack around and may get messy down the road.

💻 Code Sample

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
	<title>My react app</title>
	<script defer src='./src/client/index.tsx'></script>
	<style>body { margin: 0 }</style>
	<!-- HEAD -->
</head>

<body>
	<div id="app"><!-- BODY --></div>
</body>
</html>

🌍 Your Environment

Software	Version(s)
Parcel	1.12.3
Node	10.16.3
npm/Yarn	1.17.3 (Yarn)
Operating System	MacOS Mojave (10.14.6)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

HenryBrown0commented, Sep 20, 2019

My apologies, this was a caching issue. Deleting my cache and trying this worked great.

I’ll reopen my issue on docs as I haven’t seen this on the website

0reactions

mischniccommented, Sep 20, 2019

Works for me: https://github.com/mischnic/parcel-issue-3535-htmlnano-comment with this output:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>My react app</title><style>body{margin:0}</style><!-- HEAD --></head><body> <div id="app"><!-- BODY --></div> </body></html>