Document Parcel v1.7.0 features

[davidnagli]

Parcel 1.7.0 is coming out soon, and it's gonna be a really huge update with tons of very exciting features and changes! 🚀 😃

The only problem is... none of it is documented yet 😟

I think we should all work together on getting the major changes documented in depth:

• New Resolver (New faster resolver supporting absolute and tilde paths, and aliases parcel#850) - Explain tilde/absolute paths, aliases, etc.
• Auto Install Feature (Automatically install missing dependencies, part 2 parcel#805) - There's not much to explain, but it's still new concept so we're gonna need to document what it and why it's useful
• New File Naming Strategy (Content hash output file names parcel#1025) - We should add something to the advanced documentation with that table that @jamiebuilds made in the PR comments

Lmk if I missed anything else that needs to be documented.

[devongovett]

• GLSL assets
• New default public url (probably change the one here to something else https://parceljs.org/production.html#set-the-public-url-to-serve-on)
• Custom SSL certificate options

[DeMoorJasper]

• Update https://parceljs.org/asset_types.html to the improved pipeline api

[item4]

I think you missed about.vue file support and --log-level

[TimNZ]

Update CLI options to not use 'build' when it is not one of the supported modes.
i.e. Disable HMR

For those who confuse easily 😀

[wesleyboar-fka-iosulfur]

Has 1.7.0 has been released? I see 1.7.0 on master. I am very much looking forward to some documentation. Should I ask for help at Issue #850 until that documentation is available?

[TimNZ]

The docs have been for 1.7.0 for around a week.

A prominent version number on the docs pages would be helpful.

Devon blogged on 1.7.0.
https://medium.com/@devongovett/parcel-v1-7-0-9aac0c505837

A Blogs or Releases link on the landing page along with current version number would be useful

[davidnagli]

@wesleyboar I think most things should be documented, but if you ever run into something you need help with you can always message us on the Parcel slack :)

[DeMoorJasper]

I've opened PRs for all the remaining topics :)

Closing this in favor of the PRs and #184 (for module resolution)