[ClawsOnPaws]

doesn't npm create do this for you?

Like I can do `npm create vue` and I get a relatively nice and functioning Vue setup with most of the config already done. I agree it's a lot of boilerplate and random shenanigans, but also the apps we make for the web are more than they were. And you can absolutely write JS without all the tools, even with ESModules. But we don't do that much because turns out those tools actually do something. Do they do it in the cleanest way? No. Things could always be better. But they do it.

[shepherdjerred]

It does to some extent, and it's much better than it was a few years ago. In Vite's case, it'll create a nice template project with your framework of choice, optionally TypeScript, a linter, and I think also unit tests.

You still need to do additional configuration for your linter, and in my case (I did this last weekend) a lot of configuration for styled-component and twin.macro.

Even though it's easy to create projects, it does nothing for maintaining them. Updating all of these dependencies _can_ be painful. eslint rules are not very easy to configure, there are a lot of helpful rulesets out there which ideally would be bundled with the library they pertain to. For example, it would be nice if eslint saw I was using React and automatically applied recommended React rules, and the same for other libraries.