Using npm install

Phaser 3
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Im followng a tutorial that uses npm to install Phaser and Parcel and it is just a pain trying to get it to actually work for me so I will just copy the phaser script into my html to get going but I was wondering what are the benefits to using npm and is it something i would have to do if I was to publish a game in itch.io for example?

It doesnt make a lot of sense to me to go through this when I can just open up live server in vs code, but im new to this so no doubt im missing something

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You don’t have to install with npm to publish the game.

The advantage of using a bundler (like Parcel) is that it combines multiple scripts and minifies them when you publish the final game.

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highly recommend using Vite.js to replace Parcel
It is very easy to set up and build a game

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Thanks kheug35, I will look into Vite.js. much appreciated :slight_smile: