Perhaps, but JS tooling is waaaay better than it used to be.
Vite and Turbopack are way easier to use than Webpack, and faster than the next best thing, Parcel.
npm supports lockfiles. Yarn goes further in that you no longer need a million files in node_modules; or pnpm uses hard links to prevent duplication.
That said, typechecking Typescript is unfortunately slow. esbuild (as used by Vite) can strip out type signatures quickly, but can't check them. Rescript is very fast, but is a very different language than TypeScript or JavaScript, namely ML with braces.
Vite and Turbopack are way easier to use than Webpack, and faster than the next best thing, Parcel.
npm supports lockfiles. Yarn goes further in that you no longer need a million files in node_modules; or pnpm uses hard links to prevent duplication.
That said, typechecking Typescript is unfortunately slow. esbuild (as used by Vite) can strip out type signatures quickly, but can't check them. Rescript is very fast, but is a very different language than TypeScript or JavaScript, namely ML with braces.