Serve `index.html` when you visit localhost:1234

[RayBB]

Right now when you visit localhost:1234 it doesn't load anything. You have to manually go to http://localhost:1234/index.html

It would be a small dev experience improvement to have localhost:1234 redirect to index.html or just serve it directly.

[pietervdvn]

Definitively! I already looked into that, but didn't find right away how to configure this

[RayBB]

Upgrading to parcel v2 will fix this. However, upgrading to parcel v2 doesn't work right away

At first I got

Error [ERR_WORKER_INVALID_EXEC_ARGV]: Initiated Worker with invalid execArgv flags: --max_old_space_size=12000
    at new NodeError (internal/errors.js:322:7)
    at new Worker (internal/worker.js:196:13)
    at ThreadsWorker.start (/Users/rayberger/Downloads/MapComplete/node_modules/@parcel/workers/lib/threads/ThreadsWorker.js:51:19)
    at Worker.fork (/Users/rayberger/Downloads/MapComplete/node_modules/@parcel/workers/lib/Worker.js:104:23)
    at WorkerFarm.startChild (/Users/rayberger/Downloads/MapComplete/node_modules/@parcel/workers/lib/WorkerFarm.js:232:12)
    at WorkerFarm.startMaxWorkers (/Users/rayberger/Downloads/MapComplete/node_modules/@parcel/workers/lib/WorkerFarm.js:394:14)
    at new WorkerFarm (/Users/rayberger/Downloads/MapComplete/node_modules/@parcel/workers/lib/WorkerFarm.js:139:10)
    at createWorkerFarm (/Users/rayberger/Downloads/MapComplete/node_modules/@parcel/core/lib/Parcel.js:564:10)
    at Parcel._init (/Users/rayberger/Downloads/MapComplete/node_modules/@parcel/core/lib/Parcel.js:231:20)
    at async Parcel.watch (/Users/rayberger/Downloads/MapComplete/node_modules/@parcel/core/lib/Parcel.js:314:7) {
  code: 'ERR_WORKER_INVALID_EXEC_ARGV'
}

So I removed --max_old_space_size=12000

Then I got this error

🚨 Build failed.

unknown: Could not find entry: /Users/rayberger/Downloads/MapComplete/UI/Base

So I'm going to try to follow the migration guide and see how it goes. https://parceljs.org/getting-started/migration/

[tordans]

@RayBB we might want to re-try https://github.com/pietervdvn/MapComplete/pull/217 with the current version of the app and Vite. Both Parcel2 and Vite need some debugging to get running and Vite is the faster (more modern?) of the two.

[RobinLinde]

Switch to Vite has now happened (on develop branch), so this seems to be fixed