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by BinaryIdiot 3558 days ago
> So you're saying bower is cancer? Webpack is cancer? Babel is cancer ? JavaScript module system made popular by nodejs is cancer?

So I write a ton of JavaScript including plenty in node. But make no mistake bower, webpack, babel and npm are all crap. They're hacks. Bandaids to make ES6, the web and JavaScript modules packaging and installation work correctly. They all have their own issues, huge dependencies (I mean holy crap it took me several minutes to install Babel last time I did it all just so I can use slightly different syntax and deal with map files? ugh).