[tyingq]

I was recently surprised with this. I liked ThoughtWorks' tech radar. It's all client side JS, but uses node for some reason. Took longer than I expected to figure out the ecosystem (hadn't used node before), and it didn't appear to add much value for this use case. It also downloaded a boatload of node modules, and something called Cypress that takes forever to run. In the end it produces a fairly pedestrian client only SPA.

[asdasdasdasdwd]

It's like the tale of the boiling frog. I don't like how with old school Javascript you have to add script tags to your html for each library you want to use, at some point you start using a bundler, then a package manager so you don't need to download them manually, then a compiler so you can use newer Javascript syntax, and so on and so on. Each step is better than the last one, but when you look back to the start things do seem simpler back then.