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by bung 1853 days ago
I'm not sure if I'm a dinosaur or not, but for "old fashioned" HTML+CSS+JS static builds I've rolled my own Gulp setup that does what I tell it to. It's an investment of a couple days I'm sure, but have yet to just try Webpack to see how well it works for that purpose too, can anyone else comment?

Being stuck in Visual Studio 2019 right now for other reasons, I've been using some of it's "Lib Man" client-side library installers to help reduce the amount of gulp required too. Basically all your vendor/polyfill "lib" can just be brought and managed with a couple of clicks.
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phreack 1853 days ago
I also tried that, but didn't find any pre-made gulpfiles for it and after half an hour of trying to make one I decided it wasn't worth the effort, but it's definitely still a great tool.
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bung 1853 days ago
half an hour... wow, well if you find something that easy let me know.

If you want to specify your supported browsers and utilize transpiling (babel), maybe do some image minification (svgo), compile using the latest sass module features (dart sass), create separate script bundles for required/deferred JS with revision hashes (rev), dynamically generate test/demo HTML files and test them (backstopjs) ... I can't imagine there is a system out there that can handle even half of those things so easily. I always assumed I would need to tell the system what to do.

If you do decide to go looking around at Gulp again, for myself after reading a few articles on Gulp setups I googled for "github gulpfile.js" to see what others had done as well and that helped.

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phreack 1853 days ago
Well, Parcel touts minification, removing unused code, transpiling, and other goodies. If it worked, it really would have been perfect, I could have set it up in minutes. The half-hour I mentioned for Gulp was only enough to make me realize that it would have taken me way longer than I wanted to spend on this problem just to shave a few hundred kilobytes of an early stage website (my main goal), not how much I wanted to spend to get a specific grocery list of features done.
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