On: Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundle...

[acemarke]

Exactly. There's very good reasons why tools like Webpack and Babel exist.

Here's two excellent articles that go over the history and use cases behind the JS tooling ecosystem:

http://tinselcity.net/whys/packers

https://www.swyx.io/writing/jobs-of-js-build-tools

As a counter-point, there's also valid reasons why a lot of the JS tooling ecosystem is painful to work with:

https://increment.com/development/the-melting-pot-of-javascr...

https://www.swyx.io/writing/js-tooling/

For myself personally, I'm quite happy with the React ecosystem. For the kinds of "desktop-app-in-a-browser" apps I work on, it's fantastic.

(Caveat: I'm a Redux maintainer, so I'm also a bit biased here.)

[dmix → acemarke]

Plus theres a ton of starter kits for newbies on Github to get rolling without having to figure out the details. They are like mini-frameworks. Plenty for react, vue, etc, every combination.