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Front-end build scripts make sense for projects that are constantly developed by a team that is actively ready to incrementally fix any problems that come up

today i had a conversation with another programmer who is doing mainly backend work, and shudders in despair looking at anything more complex with frontend javascript (and that's not even considering build tools or frameworks). i thought, perfect, that's exactly what i can help with, and then i realized that, sure i can use frameworks and build the most complex interface, but if it takes anything more than a script tag to load up the code then they will never be able to maintain it.

"i need to do WHAT to deploy this?"

i love building SPAs, i am not a stickler for minimizing the need for javascript. if it helps to solve a problem then i'll use it. but deployment has to be so easy that someone who has never touched the project can do it. "here is a website. it works. go make a copy of it. add your changes and send it back."