Ncc: Node.js Compiler Collection

This just looks like a bundler. The thing about gcc, the name you&#x27;re aping here, is that it&#x27;s a <i>collection</i> of <i>compilers</i>. This looks like neither a compiler nor a collection of them.<p>As far as I can tell this seems to be approximately 2,000 lines of JavaScript (half of which is tests) that wires together existing tools in an rather un-novel way. Or, in other words: an ad for &quot;zeit&quot;.

This should be a `Show HN:`. OP is an author of the linked article.

I will definitely give ncc a try. Our published npm artifacts on Artifactory are big, mainly because we are forced due to company policies to bundle node_modules into them. Npm installing them on our on premise instances are the main bottleneck of the deployment process.

As other people mentioned before, the name is misleading. This project&#x27;s analogy is closer to a linker than a compiler collection. Is this emitting any compiled code at all or just bundling functions? What is the roadmap for this project?

This looks really interesting to me.<p>One of the things we&#x27;re going through on our app right now is react-loadable style per-component bundling. The analogy would be to building .so files with GCC. Do you have any plans for ncc to address that use case?

How about a fork that adds the suffix &quot;-1701&quot;? Subsequent versions could add letters, like a, b, c, d...

i don&#x27;t get how is this a compiler?

Where&#x27;s the compiler or even the collection of compilers in this? See this is why I&#x27;m sick of web dev, another project by &quot;developers&quot; who don&#x27;t even know what a compiler is and on top of this name it ncc just to make it sound more important, lol.