[theon144]

>I would love to see a future where we can again run a webserver from a folder to serve a frontend in development.

But you can, if you build the project and then serve the "build" directory.

If that's the step that's bothering you, you can just not use Webpack, that's completely possible for all major libraries I encountered.

[tthisk]

The accessibility of the ecosystem is just not good enough for more junior engineers. This used to be a real strong suit of web development, but it has degraded over the years. My believe is that ES modules could reverse the trend, and simplify web development.

ES modules could also bring sanity to dependency management within the ecosystem. It is interesting to see the approach Deno JS is taking here as well.