Remove embedded resource processing (again)

[tripodsan]

as discussed with @davidnuescheler the static file processing by parcel has several flaws:

• referencing the source files from within the htl is counter intuitiv (although referencing them via absolute path, will cause the IDE to complain)
• parcel doesn't support all possible meta tags/refs and we don't want to be responsible to support them
• parcel modifies the HTML, e.g. closes tags etc.

Suggestion by @davidnuescheler

• remove resource processing from the parcel plugin again
• user needs to copy copy the static files manually to the webroot

[tripodsan]

@trieloff @kptdobe WDYT? the goal is to remove some magic again.

[trieloff]

Is this about pre-processing the HTL?

[kptdobe]

user needs to copy the static files manually to the webroot

I would never do that. I would put them directly in the webroot!

I never liked the /dist folder which contains a version of my source files with a different name and that I have to commit to my repo while it is a generated folder...
When you work with less files, the process is even worst... you have a real/src folder something with your less files, the less build process generates the css files under myhelixproject/src/static and when you run hlx build, those css files get copied again in myhelixproject/dist with a different name. Insane.
If you want a real static resource with a name you control, you need to put it in myhelixproject/dist but that's a risk because you do not know if parcel would delete it at one point.

Definitely +1 for putting all static files under the webroot folder but we need to make sure the IDE knows that / is webroot.

[tripodsan]

I would never do that. I would put them directly in the webroot!

that's what I mean :-)

Is this about pre-processing the HTL?

yes. both @davidnuescheler and @kptdobe struggle very much with the treatment of parcel, which often modify the html, don't process all files, etc. I think that we should strive to a what-you-see-is-what-you-get and no-surprises approach ;-)