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by LAC-Tech 1212 days ago
It warms my heart to see frontend web dev maturing like this, it really does. Kudos to the author for putting this out there, that shell script is nifty.

One trick I've used is to `npm install` my dependencies as normal but bundle them with esbuild, while also generating a typescript definition file. This gives me one file I can import in vanilla JS but also lets me check my JS with typescript.
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pjmlp 1212 days ago
Me too, I left Web development when node and npm were learning to crawl, given how things went in WinRT and Android world, I ended up refocusing on Web.

So when I got back I couldn't believe how bad the experience became versus SSR frameworks, and gladly focused on backend and devops stuff instead.

It is refreshing to see this starting to happen.

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bsenftner 1212 days ago
> So when I got back I couldn't believe how bad the experience became

Like frogs in a slowly boiling pot, most full time js devs have no idea the shit they put up with. IMHO modern js frameworks suffer from complexity rot; they are so over engineered it is a sad joke.

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