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by em-bee 1026 days ago
exactly this. i am just in the process of upgrading the framework of a site that has been built this way. the thing is that the default tools all push towards using buildtools, bundlers and transpilers. so i had to dig a little bit until figured out how to do it without.

in the process i asked myself why go through the trouble and not just use the build tools like everyone else. and i came pretty much to the same answer. when i need to make some changes to the site in a few years, i do not want to be stuck with having to figure out how to get 5 year old build tools working before i can even start working on the site.

the current site, btw was build in 2016, and it still works, and i was able to dive in with adding new features without delay. the upgrade of the framework is optional, because i want to take advantage of new features not because the site would have stopped working otherwise.