[wnevets]

Everything that you mentioned is supposed to make things easier, safer and more importantly faster to change.

However it seems like developers everywhere are just adding these things because they heard that facebook or whoever was doing it without actually stopping to think if it makes sense for their team and their product. Before you know it you're left with a ball of tool/process mud where every little change requires passing a resolution at the UN to implement and deploy.

[quickthrower2]

I’m now of the opinion that using typescript, react and Webpack every time is the right thing to do! Even for a tiny project.

Typescript has won the well typed JS war and offers the most practical solution. There are Haskellly and Lispy alternatives that are sexier but typescript feels closer to the metal and working with JS interop is sublime while getting the benefits of types for refactoring, documentation and robustness. Always use it.

React is the best front end paradigm. It provides an excellent way to reason about the front end and avoid messy state and event handlers or bindings going around cascading shit into your ui.

Webpack is cool. You’ll need something to bundle and I feel it’s a good choice. I’ve had it singing some interesting tunes! It’s very flexible.

Also git goes without saying. And the other implied tool goes literally without saying :) and not it’s not yarn!

Once you get used to these tools it’s just not worth not using them. It’s a one time investment like learning touch typing.

Yes in js you just need a script tag but most languages and platforms off the web have a bundled/build process, Ui toolkit and typed language so I don’t see the big deal in learning these for web dev.

[gtirloni]

They make a lot of technical sense to most teams, not just to Google/Facebook. The problem is that there's a cost to everything but people don't take that into account.

You don't buy a car and say "I want those fancy wheels, yeah!" without considering the cost. But in IT, sure, management thinks most of that is easy or barely costs anything. I think that's the whole point of the article.