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Is it really that crazy complicated though?

Simple browser = script src=x Simple node = index.js

What if you want some libraries included? specify your libs in package.json and npm install.

What if you want to publish your libs? Npm publish.

What if you want to have dependency tree bundled for browser as single script? Webpack

What if you want nice types, latest features and validation for larger projects ? Typescript loader in webpack

What if you want a nice state management library? Preact /react

There's a ton of crap and different ways of doing things but I bet fundamental things are here to remain which solve a large % of use cases.

I would say things are getting simpler in some manner. You don't really need lodash and jquery nowadays. The standard js in browsers has improved quite a bit.




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