Adonis Bundler is the simpliest assets bundler you could ever found for an Adonis application.

It's based on ParcelJS which is a blazing fast, zero configuration web application bundler.

This package should be installed with the Adonis CLI.

$ adonis install adonis-bundler

Then register the Service Provider within your start/app.js file.

const providers = [
  'adonis-bundler/providers/BundlerProvider',
]

You are now ready to go!

By default adonis-bundler look at files stored within your resources/assets folder and check for file with the pattern */app.*. That means, all the file within your resource/assets/XXX folder named app.XXX will be bundled.

After creating your assets in the way you want (Less, SCSS, Stylus, ES2015, ...) you simply need to run the command below and the magic will happen.

$ adonis bundle
# adonis bundle --watch -> Watch for change
# adonis bundle --production -> Minify

ParcelJS will automaticaly download packages you need to compiles your assets and will then run them.

The config file is save as config/bundle.js. Make sure to tweak it as per your needs.

The bundler also check for .babelrc, postcss.config.js or whatever file your "language"/"transpiler" used by default to be configured to help you configure your assets the way you want.

I want to do X and I cannot do it with this package
You maybe want to do something that is out of the scope of this package. Don't worry, you aren't obligated to use it. This main goal of this package is to provide an easy way to compile assets for 90% of developper. Nothing keeps you from installing Webpack and doing a custom configuration.

Is ParcelJS's plugins working with this package
YES!

How can I create an hash named compiled assets for production caching?
Unfortunately, you cannot for the moment. Some discussions are going on in ParcelJS repository and hopefully this will be possible soon.