Bundle used node_modules seperately from source

[jfrconley]

Essentially, I'm looking for a way to bundle everything included from node_modules in a seperate js bundle from the source code and entrypoint of my application. I already considered having a barrel file export external files, but I'm wondering if there is any easier way that doesn't require a refactor.

EDIT: Just attempted using a barrel file and adding it as an entrypoint, but quickly realized this doesn't actually split the bundle. Is there a proper way to do this for nodejs apps?

[mischnic]

So you want to create a vendor bundle.

This isn't supported natively at the moment but could also be achieved with a custom bundler plugin (for Parcel 2).

[jfrconley]

It'd be nice if parcel could codesplit based on an arbitrary path (or paths) as dynamic import doesn't work well for NodeJS projects. I may go ahead and write a bundler plugin to do this.

[porst17]

Is there any better way to achieve vendor bundles in recent Parcel v2 versions than to implement a custom bundler plugin (which BTW still has an unstable API AFAICS)? I am frequently working on projects that include rather large dependencies like Tensorflow.js and the like. The bundles are pretty big (> 1MB) and a new huge bundle file with a new hash is created for after each minor code change. I could remove such large packages from package.json and start managing them myself by putting external dependencies into a dedicated vendor folder and load them via separate <script> tags. But this feels like dependency management from ten or twenty years ago ...

I am sure, I am not the only person with this use case.