How Parcel is used
Parcel joined the catalog on its public numbers (203,791 downloads a week on npm and 44,007 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 16 public GitHub projects of our scan, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Vite (1,216 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Solana Web3.js (31.2%), ethers.js (25.0%), Phaser (25.0%).
Parcel popularity over time
Gid Score 50: downloads 49, use in agent projects 24, GitHub stars 75, downloads trend 51 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Parcel
| Solana Web3.js | 31.2% of Parcel projects · 84.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| ethers.js | 25.0% of Parcel projects · 53.5× more than average |
| Phaser | 25.0% of Parcel projects · 129.3× more than average |
| Jest | 25.0% of Parcel projects · 3.9× more than average |
How Parcel is funded
Open Collective: Parcel
| Received, last 12 months | $5,324 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $6,522 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $56,675 |
| Raised since the start | $93,167 · $36,492 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $211 · $594 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -30% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 48 |
Top company backers all time, 126 companies in total
| Vercel | $44,500 since Jan 2019 |
|---|---|
| Frontend Masters | $6,640 since Jul 2019 |
| Handsontable - JavaScript Data Grid | $3,200 since Jun 2022 |
| Principal Financial Group | $2,150 since Jul 2020 |
| Views4You | $1,800 since Apr 2025 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Dec 2017. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 2 more tools in our catalog: Lightning CSS, @parcel/watcher.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund Parcel
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install parcel |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (16) |
| Example projects | mmiscool/aiCoder, Grape-Labs/grape-art, Calindra/cartesify, ourcade/phaser3-vs-kaboomjs, 0xResmic/Resmic |
Alternatives to Parcel
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Parcel are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vite npm Fast native-ESM powered web development build tool and dev server. |
90 | 1,216 (25.2%) | 119M | 83.4K | MIT |
| esbuild npm Extremely fast JavaScript and CSS bundler and minifier written in Go. |
82 | 290 (6.0%) | 184M | 40.1K | MIT |
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