Do you have a webpack setup you've labored over, but want to try parcel? Blocked on migration because Parcel doesn't resolve tsconfig aliases?

Now you can, in the spirit of (almost) zero-config. Just install parcel-resolver-tspaths and follow the instructions.

How Parcel is Out-of-the-Box

Parcel is supposed to be a fun zero-config build tool. That bubble bursts when you discover that your TypeScript path aliases force you into tooling-specific configuration yet again.

If we look at the Parcel docs for module resolution and aliases:

Aliases are supported through the alias field in package.json.

...

// package.json { "alias" : { "react" : "preact-compat" , "react-dom" : "preact-compat" , "local-module" : "./custom/modules" } }

But lets not make a mess of things.…