Output file contains a temporary string

[vijinpaulraj]

Hi - I'm trying parcel-plugin-concat to build my project with multiple entry files and everything seems to be working fine. The only issue is, the output file generates a random/temporary string in the suffix. As I include output.js in the index.html file, I want this exactly to be output.js. Is this something that can be fixed in the plugin?

parcel build src/js/* -o output.js --out-dir public/js

[tadayosi]

Thanks for the report. I noticed the issue; even with --no-content-hash parcel adds the content hash. Let's see if we can fix it.

[tadayosi]

@vijinpaulraj In fact the --no-content-hash parcel option does what you want. It still includes a hash in the output file, but it should be always the same as the hash is caculated based on the output path rather than the content. You are free to change output.<hash>.js to output.js afterwards. See: parcel-bundler/parcel#1934 (comment)

[vijinpaulraj]

Thanks, @tadayosi for coming back on this.

The problem is, if I want to make a build for production, the renaming bit will be quite challenging - perhaps I need to write a script to rename the output file.

[tadayosi]

@vijinpaulraj With --no-content-hash the output file name should be always the same, so if you use npm scripts you can easily rename it as follows:

  "scripts": {
    ...
    "postbuild": "mv public/js/output.xxxxxxxx.js public/js/output.js"
  }

or you can use output.xxxxxxxx.js as-is at client as the hash code shouldn't change.