[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.