[konart]

I still kind of lost here.

I know this much about frontend development too but I was sure that you still need a package manager to install your npm\yarn and other tools.

PS: Obviously you can live without one. Regardless of being backend\frontend developer.

PPS: and honestly, how can you be scared of postgresql and co. after webpack? If you can actually understand this crap postgres setup should be to easy for you.

[simonw]

Yeah I personally find Webpack a whole lot scarier than PostgreSQL / package managers, but that's down to my previous career experience.

Really the key thing here is that learning new things is hard, and anything that can be done to remove potential roadblocks is worthwhile. I've talked to so many people who were put off learning Python because they couldn't get to a working development environment on their own.

[josephg]

> If you can actually understand this crap postgres setup should be to easy for you.

You can figure almost anything out if you spend enough time reading documentation and noodling with it. I'd still rather spend that time solving my actual problem.

[powerhour]

You don't really need webpack or etc for this, you can just hit some page that hosts the wasm already.

[konart]

Just to be clear: I was not talking about the project at crunchydata.com. I merely say that in my opinion modern js development routine is much more complicated that postgres setup