[philmander]

After just reading the title, I assumed the same thing, but actually this is exactly what web development needs.

create-react-app is a great example of a project that abstracts away all the complexities of a JavaScript build process and dev environment, but customization inevitably requires you to 'eject' and reintroduce that complexity to your project.

This tool goes one step further and supports customization without this eject step.

This is finally where web builds need to be to provide a simple foundation for modern web development so devs can focus more on making apps and less on tooling.

I look forward to trying it out.

[omouse]

What complexities of build processes?!

Building Javascript files with modules and deps is a solved problem. We've built all sorts of other file types and compiled them and linked them before with tools like Make, SCons and other tools. It's ridiculous to think that JavaScript is a unique language that needs its own build tools. It does not.

We went down the wrong path years ago when we decided that whenever we use a language we also need to use tools written in that language. Grunt, gulp, webpack and the rest should go away.

[philmander]

I hear you. Node.js made my Ant tasks for running jshint and qunit totally redundant :(